Southern Redevelopment at SALHN - Stage 1

• Upgrade and expand Medical Imaging Services with a new CT and MRI suite on level 2 at FMC, delivered in September 2023.
• A new 20-bed fast-track ward named the Marjorie Tripp Ward (Ward 2S). This ward was purpose-built to provide a new home for the existing Older Persons Assessment and Liaison/Residential Aged Care Outreach Team (OPAL/RCOT) service and opened in April 2024.

• Brand new seven-storey Acute Services Building to deliver an additional 98 clinical spaces, including:

Level 1 – A new main entrance with enquiries desk, large lobby with seating, retail outlet and an undercover drop-off pick up zone, as well as a new Day of Surgery Admissions area.

Level 2 – 18-bay Medical Day Unit and new Podiatry area.

Level 3 – four new Operating Theatres and recovery areas. 

Level 4 – a dedicated floor for the FMC Eye Surgery Clinic which will enable the integration of SALHN’s ophthalmology services into a single facility.

Level 5 – a 16 bed Intensive Care Unit and supporting CT scanner. 

Level 6 and 7 – two 32 bed Adult Inpatient Units. 

• Mortuary uplift project to support the additional beds – completed October 2025.
• Kitchen uplift project to support the additional beds.
• Sterilisation services expansion project to support the additional beds.
• Sustainment works - electrical infrastructure upgrade works to provide additional capacity and resilience for the site. 

• Expansion of Margaret Tobin Centre to include a brand-new 12-bed Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) due to open March 2026.
• The additional acute beds will better support those living in the southern community with complex mental illness, as well as improve ED flow and admissions.
• The new unit will include therapeutic spaces that are open, spacious, light filled, comfortable, and domestic in style. It will also feature two wings with six beds each and three private family meeting rooms, one of which is connected to a private courtyard and can accommodate larger family gatherings.

• 48 new beds opened November 2025, delivering:

• • 24-bed Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit, an addition to the mental health services already provided across our Local Health Network. It bridges the gap between our high acuity mental health services and our community-based Trevor Parry Centre. The unit showcases a modern, patient-focused design with adaptable spaces that support extended stays and create a home-like and recovery focused environment.
  • 24-bed General Medicine Ward includes 20 single patient rooms purposefully designed with an ensuite and a window allowing for natural light and a four-bed bay with a dedicated nurses’ station within the room, designed to support patients requiring a higher level of care and observation.

• Kitchen and linen facilities expanded to support the additional beds.
• New larger SA Pharmacy space was built to provide additional capacity and support the roll-out of Automated Dispensing Cabinets across the site.
• 12-chair Renal Dialysis Unit opened in 2023 providing a new space for the service which increased capacity by 25%.

Repat Health Precinct (RHP) redevelopment has seen old heritage buildings transformed into new modern wards (majority of the beds single rooms to improve patient privacy and infection control, with a mix of both overnight and same-day beds delivered to meet the needs of our elderly patients). The two projects at RHP have delivered an additional 32-beds, including: 

• a purpose-designed 26-bed Geriatric Evaluation and Management (GEM) Unit in a refurbished and expanded ward known as Torin Kowt Ward. Opened October 2024.
• a newly refurbished 6-bed space for the Complex and Restorative (CARE) Service currently located within the Bangka Strait Ward. Opened April 2024 and is now known as the SA Urgent Care Hub – Repat.