Blacktown Hospital is an acute care hospital

Hospital

A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....

 in Blacktown, New South Wales

Blacktown, New South Wales

Blacktown is a suburb in the City of Blacktown, in Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Blacktown is located 34 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of City of Blacktown.Blacktown is the largest...

, Australia

Australia

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. Together with Mount Druitt Hospital

Mount Druitt Hospital

Mount Druitt Hospital is a 200 bed hospital in Sydney suburb of Mount Druitt, New South Wales, Australia. It was opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in October 1982, and was designed by Lawrence Nield in 1980....

 and associated community health centres, it forms Blacktown-Mt Druitt Health, which is a unit within the Sydney West Area Health Service (SWAHS).

Blacktown hospital has approximately 400 beds, It provides a wide range of health services;

Ante-Natal/Gynaecology Unit;

Delivery Suite;

Post-Natal;

Special Care Nursery;

Acute Medical;

Coronary Care and Coronary Stepdown Unit;

Diabetes Center;

Acute Rehabilitation;

Acute Stroke Unit;

Pre-Admission Clinic;

Day Procedure Unit;

Orthopaedic;

Surgical;

Surgical/Medical Short Stay Unit;

Intensive Care Unit;

High Dependency

Oncology Services;

Mental Health;

Regional Dialysis Centre;

Community Health Services including Dental.

It operates a 24-hour emergency department and a full Intensive Care Unit

Intensive Care Unit

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 and CCU. It also has 24 hour medical imaging

Medical imaging

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 and pathology

Pathology

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 services on site.

The hospital is a teaching hospital

Teaching hospital

A teaching hospital is a hospital that provides clinical education and training to future and current doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, in addition to delivering medical care to patients...

 of the University of Western Sydney

University of Western Sydney

The University of Western Sydney, also known as UWS, is a multi-campus university in the Greater Western region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

's Blacktown-Mount Druitt Clinical School (commenced in October 2007) and University of Sydney's

University of Sydney

The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

 Western Clinical School.

The Hospital complex also includes Bungarribee House, a psychiatric unit that, along with Cumberland Hospital

Cumberland Hospital

Cumberland Hospital is a public psychiatric hospital located in Westmead, in Sydney's west. Along with Bungarribee House, Blacktown Hospital it serves the mental health needs of Western Sydney. As a public hospital it is part of Sydney West Area Health Service .-History:The site was formally the...

 provides mental health services to western Sydney.

Recent Events

Following a stabbing of a nurse at the hospital in July 2011 NSW Health Minister

Minister for Health (New South Wales)

The New South Wales Minister for Health has responsibilities which includes all hospitals and health services in NSW.The current Minister for Health is Jillian Skinner. She administers her portfolio through the Department of Health.-List of Ministers:...

 Jillian Skinner

Jillian Skinner

Jillian Gell Skinner MP , an Australian politician, is the New South Wales Minister for Health and Minister for Medical Research in the O'Farrell-Stoner Liberal/National coalitition government...

called for a review of hospital security. The state government has announced full-time security.