Hornsby Mental Health Unit
- Client:
- Health Infrastructure New South Wales
- Location:
- Sydney, New South Wales
- Features:
- 2 storey building with 35 beds for adult inpatients and 12 beds for children and adolescent inpatients; internal spaces connecting to external environments; natural light; 3 seclusion rooms designed to be highly robust; an Ambulance Saliport designed to meet new NSW standards
The site is located at Hornsby Ku-Ring-Gai Hospital, Campus approximately 22 km north by north west of Sydney CBD and is bound by Palmerston Road to the west and Lowe Road to the north. It is a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney. The proposed Hornsby Adult Acute Mental Health and Child and Adolescent Acute Inpatient Unit at Hornsby Ku-Ring-Gai Hospital Campus will be a contemporary Mental Health Facility to enhance access to mental health services for the Northern Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service (NSCCAHS) residents.