The new $1.8 billion Sunshine Coast University Hospital at Kawana will open late next month, with outpatients clinics beginning on March 21 and inpatients in the week beginning March 27, Queensland Health Minister Cameron Dick has announced.
Originally slated to open last November, the opening was delayed for several months on the recommendation of an independent clinical readiness advisory group following the poorly handled commissioning of Brisbane's Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, which experienced major problems, including mass confusion over medical records and digital systems, in what is widely considered a rush to open in late 2014.
