The 32-bed expansion at the Garran campus is now treating patients, adding capacity that hospital staff have been requesting since the pandemic.
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The new emergency department wing at Canberra Hospital opened to patients Monday morning, completing a $227 million two-year expansion at the Garran campus.
The 32-bed extension adds short-stay and ambulatory care capacity that hospital staff have been requesting since the pandemic peaks.
ACT Health says the wing opens with full staffing. A short-stay paediatric build is scheduled to begin next year on the eastern carpark site.
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation welcomed the opening but flagged ongoing concerns about rostering.
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