Overview of campus changes
What does our future campus look like?
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead (CHW) campus is growing to improve experiences for staff, patients and families.
This includes:
- New 14-storey hospital building for acute services, including:
- New and expanded Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
- Oncology services including a new day oncology treatment centre and inpatients units
- New perioperative unit containing operating theatres, cardiac catheterisation labs and interventional laboratory
- Statewide service for burns, offering inpatient and outpatient facilities
- New pharmacy and oncology pharmacy
- New Surgical Short Stay Unit
- New staff car park with 1,000 spaces and adjoining coffee cart
- Three new playgrounds across the campus, tailored to all abilities and ages
- Relocation of Pathology Collections and Children’s Research Centre to the front of the current hospital on level 2, and Paediatric Gait Analysis Laboratory to a fit-for-purpose space on level 1
- A new staircase to support staff and patient flow between level 1 and 2 of the galleria
- Revitalised ‘KidsPark’ forecourt with fresh food grocer
- Dedicated Pet Park where families can bring in their pets from home to visit patients
- Widening of the linkway of level 3, connecting Block K to the rest of the hospital campus.
New building names
In consultation with local Aboriginal community members and staff, new names have been allocated to the hospital campus buildings and entrance points to help create unique identifiers for each building.
- The new 14-storey hospital building will be known as the Wattle Building (Wadanguli)
- The current hospital building will be known as the Banksia Building (Wadanggari)
- Block K, home to the Emergency Department (ED), Children’s Short Stay Unit (CSSU), CHW Satellite Imaging and Block K theatres, will retain its name.
