New health facility will serve rapidly growing community.

Construction is now complete at RPA HealthOne Green Square, a new Sydney Local Health District facility that will bring primary healthcare services closer to home for the local community.

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard toured the facility with the District’s Chief Executive Dr Teresa Anderson and the District Executive Director of Clinical Services Integration and Population Health Lou-Anne Blunden, as well as colleagues from Health Infrastructure, representatives from Lipman Construction and Robyn Ward, Executive Dean and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney.

“This purpose-built facility will provide the rapidly growing population of this area with the convenience of non-emergency care closer to home,” Mr Hazzard said.  

RPA HealthOne will focus on early intervention, health promotion and disease prevention and will be linked to specialist clinical services such as diabetes, cardiology, gastro, and liver clinics that would traditionally take place at RPA.

It will also offer Allied Health care, Aboriginal health services, virtual care and child and family health services, as well as sexual health services and mental health services.

Green Square is on track to become one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods in the country, with 68,000 people projected to live in the area by 2031.

“Previously, patients would have to travel to Camperdown to receive the health services delivered at this centre. RPA HealthOne Green Square will support the health and wellbeing of the growing local community with integrated services outside the hospital system”, Dr Anderson said.

There will also be a Primary Care Academic Unit, which will emphasise new models of care, in partnership with the University of Sydney and Central and Eastern Sydney Primary Health Network.

Located at 944 Bourke Street, Zetland, near Green Square train station, the two-storey building will feature eight consultation rooms, four interview rooms, six treatment rooms and a gymnasium for patient therapy.

Finishing touches are now being applied to the facility, which is on track to open in April.

The NSW HealthOne Program aims to bolster primary care across New South Wales by bringing Commonwealth-funded general practice and state-funded primary and community health care services together.