Australia’s first health clinic to offer integrated, patient-centred healthcare, as well as aged-care and retirement living facilities will be built in Wollongong.
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The $500 million facility, to be built at the University of Wollongong’s innovative Health and Wellbeing Precinct, will also include research and teaching programs.
It will take up one-third of the Innovation Campus.
UOW Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Wellings CBE announced that Lendlease had been chosen as preferred respondent for the project on Thursday.
“The development of the Health and Wellbeing Precinct is a major initiative for the University that will bring significant benefits to the Illawarra community and beyond,” Professor Wellings said.
“It will create a space where medical professionals sit alongside students, researchers and academics and where aged-care centres sit alongside state-of-the-art rehabilitation services, where GPs will work side-by-side with dieticians, dentists and psychologists.
“Lendlease provided the most comprehensive development concept and vision for the Health and Wellbeing Precinct, which best meets UOW’s vision to advance education, research, community engagement and employment opportunity for graduates.”
The Health and Wellbeing Precinct will integrate research and teaching environments with non-surgical health care and aged-care facilities to translate research into action while developing and delivering new models of patient-centred care and training the next generation of healthcare professionals.
ECONOMIC BENEFITS
The overall development represents a $450-$500 million investment in the Illawarra, with Stage One accounting for $200-$250 million.
Economic modelling indicates that stage one, in its the initial five-year development and operation, will add $600 million in total value to the Illawarra (in direct, indirect and induced impacts) and create more than 2000 jobs.
It will also generate more than $6 million in annual economic benefits to the public through the provision of aged care and healthcare services.
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