Blacktown Hospital is an acute care hospital in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia. Together with Mount Druitt Hospital and associated community health centres, it forms Blacktown-Mt Druitt Health, which is a unit within the Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD).
Blacktown hospital has approximately 400 beds, It provides a wide range of health services;
- Ante-Natal/Gynaecology Unit;
- Delivery Suite;
- Post-Natal;
- Special Care Nursery;
- Acute Medical;
- Coronary Care and Coronary Stepdown Unit;
- Diabetes Center;
- Acute Rehabilitation;
- Acute Stroke Unit;
- Pre-Admission Clinic;
- Day Procedure Unit;
- Orthopaedic;
- Surgical;
- Surgical/Medical Short Stay Unit;
- Intensive Care Unit;
- High Dependency
- Oncology Services;
- Mental Health;
- Regional Dialysis Centre;
- Community Health Services including Dental.
It operates a 24-hour emergency department and a full Intensive Care Unit and CCU. It also has 24 hour medical imaging and pathology services on site.
The hospital is a teaching hospital of the University of Western Sydney's Blacktown-Mount Druitt Clinical School (commenced in October 2007) and University of Sydney's Western Clinical School.
The Hospital complex also includes Bungarribee House, a psychiatric unit that, along with Cumberland Hospital provides mental health services to western Sydney.
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