Halfway milestone for hospital

WORKS on the Frankston Hospital redevelopment have passed the halfway mark. Major construction on the $1.1 billion project began in June 2022. A new 12-storey tower for clinical services with 130 more beds, rooms for mental health and cancer treatment services, and 15 operating theatres is being built.

The redevelopment is being funded by the state government. Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke said the project will be a “gamechanger for the south-east” and will “cut wait times and ease pressure on other hospitals.” Concrete slabs for the first seven floors of the new tower have now been poured. Construction on a new seven-storey car park is also progressing.

The state government expects the project, undertaken in partnership with Peninsula Health and the Exemplar Health consortium, will be completed in late 2025. An opening date of 2026 has been targeted. Victorian health infrastructure minister Mary-Anne Thomas said “the bigger and better Frankston Hospital is going up quickly – workers are on-site every day to deliver the massive project which will support 35,000 more people every year, get care close to home.”

First published in the Frankston Times – 16th April 2024