Uniting Care Queenland has appointed Koah to lead a consultant team to develop Preliminary Facilities and Services Masterplans for each of it’s Hospitals which will both enable UCQ’s overarching business strategies and interpret health services defined in the draft clinical services plans into functional plans.
UnitingCare Health is one of the largest not-for-profit private hospital groups in Queensland and is a service group of UnitingCare Queensland (UCQ). The hospital group is a major provider of healthcare services in Queensland which operates more than 1,000 licensed hospital beds and employs over 4,100 people.
UnitingCare deliver a range of specialist healthcare services out of four unique hospitals, across South East Queensland including the Wesley Hospital and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital in Brisbane, Buderim Private Hospital on the Sunshine Coast and St Stephen’s Hospital in Hervey Bay. In 2018 the group of hospitals admitted just under 125,000 Queenslanders and performed more than 88,000 surgical procedures.
The Preliminary Masterplans will assist UCQ develop and refine it’s strategic business and clinical and strategies and will be used as a basis for a number of key activities leading into the FY19/20 capital planning cycle including
- Review existing hospital facilities, assets and service infrastructure identifying opportunities and constraints for future growth
- Identifying and agreeing preferred base-case development scenarios for each of the hospitals
- Mapping existing property tenures such as leases and strata titles which may influence or constrain future Master planning, Health Services
- Developing Initial Business Case/s for Detailed Masterplans and subsequent design processes exploring alternative Models of Care and Growth Strategies
- Further refinement of Strategic Plans for each of the Hospitals and development of Specialty and Departmental plans
- Staging and Implementation Strategies for facilities expansion required to achieve Clinical and Strategic Plans
- Developing Capital Cost Estimates and Cashflows forecast to assist with Capital Planning
The Preliminary Masterplans will also be used as the basis for future design studies and development such as developing final (detailed) masterplans and subsequent design for each hospital.
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