Upgrade starts on mental health unit

Brisbane Waters Private Hospital has started an upgrade to its Central Coast Clinic mental health unit.

The new $3.2 million single level wing will comprise 14 patient rooms, nursing stations, dining rooms, activity rooms, an office and a landscaped courtyard.

Central Coast Clinic was opened in November 2008 with eight private rooms and two twin-share rooms that provided accommodation for 12 patients at a cost of $1 million.

The hospital claimed it was the first dedicated private mental health facility on the Central Coast to provide comprehensive specialist service to both inpatients and outpatients.

Founded by a group of local doctors 30 years ago, Brisbane Waters Private Hospital is now owned by Healthscope Group which operates 44 private hospitals throughout Australia as well as in Asia, along with over 500 pathology collections centres, 73 medical centres and skin cancer clinics nationwide.

Newsletter, 22 April 2011 Edgar Adams, Central Coast Business Review