By XAVIER SMERDON
ONE of the biggest building projects in Werribee Mercy Hospital’s history is nearing completion, with the first two storey facility at the hospital just months away from being finished.
Executive Director of Health Services, Dr Linda Mellors, told Star last week that the imposing new Rehabilitation and Geriatric Medicine Services Building, which is taking shape along the Princes Highway, would be finished in December.
The building has been designed in such a way that more stories will be able to be added to it, with grand plans paving the way for it to eventually be six stories tall.
“It’s very exciting to see things happening here,” Dr Mellors said.
“This building will allow us to provide services that we don’t currently offer and that the community needs.”
When the building is completed, it will also contain the new main entry to the hospital, and Dr Mellors said the $28 million structure was on track to be opened on time.
A new clinical training facility that will act as a classroom for the nurses of the future is also getting closer to being finished and is also expected to be ready in December.
Construction will soon start on a new 54 bed mental health building, the most expensive of all three new buildings at a cost of $34.7 million.
Consultants have now been appointed to the project and the design phase has started.
A Werribee Mercy spokesperson said it was expected that the mental health facility would be finished in late 2016.
