Year-in-Review-2021-22 - Flipbook - Page 7
Chair of the Board
The Hon John Ajaka
Chief Executive
Dr Teresa Anderson AM
We launched our new Digital Health Strategy and
have continued to grow our virtual care capacity
to enhance the experiences of our patients and
staff. We are committed to developing new
sustainability programs for a brighter future.
We have also had an emphasis on building
services to meet the needs of our communities
today and into the future. This year, as Concord
Hospital celebrated 80 years of serving the
community, we officially opened the $341.2
million Rusty Priest Building Redevelopment
as well as Fussell House, a 19-room residential
accommodation facility for Veterans and their
families being cared for at the National Centre
for Veterans’ Healthcare.
As Royal Prince Alfred prepared to celebrate
140 years, we saw the first designs for the $750
million redevelopment of the hospital, the largest
transformation in its history. We continued
enabling and early works, including refurbishment
of the paediatric ward and Kidney Centre RPA
dialysis works.
We progressed the establishment of the Sydney
Innovation Precinct for Health Education and
Research, appointing an inaugural Chair and
Executive Director. Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
was officially announced as an anchor tenant
in the Tech Central Innovation Precinct, and we
celebrated significant funding announcements
for the state-of-the-art Sydney Biomedical
Accelerator. This will see the establishment of a
new biomedical research complex in collaboration
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with the University of Sydney and Centenary
Institute. The complex will formally link RPA and
The University of Sydney for the first time and will
bring together some of the world’s greatest minds
to solve wicked problems and rapidly translate
research to patient care.
We officially opened the $9.9 million Naamuru
at RPA, the first Parent and Baby Unit to be
delivered as part of the Statewide Mental Health
Infrastructure Program, to provide support for
parents requiring acute care. We commenced
construction for RPA HealthOne at Green Square.
And, during National Reconciliation Week, we
opened the new Aboriginal Cultural Garden at
Canterbury Hospital, acknowledging the Bediagal
people of the EORA Nation.
We would like to thank our board, our staff,
volunteers, patients, partner organisations and
our communities - we remained stronger together.
Chair of the Board
The Hon John Ajaka
Chief Executive
Dr Teresa Anderson AM
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