CIMIC Group company CPB Contractors has been selected by the NSW Government to design and construct the project. 

Construction is expected to commence in February this year and the project is expected to take about two years.

President of the WWBH auxiliary, Rodney Parsons OAM, said he was pleased to see work would soon be underway and the redevelopment had been a long time coming. 

“This area is a big area and it’s a big hospital which services so many people,” he said. 

“It took 30 years for this project to get going and it’s been at least five since they started building.

“They are saying it should be finished by 2020, which is good to hear and it won’t impact us at all.” 

CPB Contractors managing director, Juan Santamaria, said the company will bring the valuable experience from our other hospital projects to deliver a first-class facility for the people of Wagga and surrounding areas.

“We look forward to continuing our strong working relationship with NSW Health Infrastructure to ensure the safe and timely delivery of this important project,” he said. 

The WWHS3 Redevelopment Project will consolidate important sub-acute, ambulatory, community and primary health services on a single site, meeting the needs of communities in the wider Murrumbidgee Local Health District into the future.

The project will include a new five-storey ambulatory care building adjacent to Wagga Base Hospital, 28 aged care beds, 24 rehabilitation beds, a 24-bed mental health inpatient unit and a 20-chair renal dialysis unit, an education area including a library, conference rooms and a lecture theatre and a basement carpark.

Mr Parsons said it was crucial for the hospital to be properly equipped in order to meet the needs of Wagga and the surrounding areas.

“The Base Hospital doesn’t discriminate between the rich or the poor,” he said.

“The auxiliary will continue to run and help provide the hospital with items they urgently need.

“We are proud of the hospital and if we help save even just one life then our job is done.” 

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