Plans for a new 150-bed private hospital at Sunshine are “rapidly advancing”, and the new seven-storey building is due to open in three years.
Star Weekly revealed last week $130 million had been earmarked for the project on the back of state government growth blueprint Plan Melbourne.
Western Day Surgery director Adrian Williams, who is one of the developers behind the private hospital, said this week the Furlong Road project was progressing well.
“We are in confidential negotiations with private hospital operators to take the tenancy and hope to open the facility in 2018,” Dr Williams said. “Further details of the project will be released at the appropriate time.”
Property firm MacroPlanDimasi’s national operations head, David Brown, said the hospital may include larger health providers already operating in the area to come in as “anchor tenants”.
Tenants could also include “clusters of allied health services” and not-for-profit agencies, such as Red Cross and the Salvation Army, he said.
Western Day Surgery currently operates on the site slated for the private hospital. The hospital is the brainchild of the late Dr Laurie Williams, Adrian’s father and an obstetrician and gynaecologist in the west for 40 years, who told Star Weekly in 2013 the new hospital would generate about 140 jobs.
“The plans to develop a 150-bed private hospital at 145-149 Furlong Road are rapidly advancing,” he said.
