Building excellence from the ground up

The new Epworth Geelong, which is due to open in July, isn’t just another hospital relocation or redevelopment, it is one of only a few recent private hospitals to be built from the ground up in Australia.
Informed by international best practice, the design and layout will ensure the hospital is equipped with an optimal clinical setting that supports excellence in patient care today and into the future.
Improving the health and wellbeing of Victorians has been the goal of Epworth HealthCare for more than 95 years.
An expanding and ageing population poses a significant need for additional healthcare services within Greater Geelong and south-west Victoria which is why they have embarked on a journey to deliver a world-class health precinct to the region, expanding access to a range of treatments and providing a new choice in healthcare when the new facility opens later in the year.
Located adjacent to Deakin University’s Waurn Ponds campus on Pigdons Road, to the south west of Geelong’s CBD with the location ensuring it is within easy reach of people within Greater Geelong, the urban growth areas of Armstrong Creek and Wyndham Vale, central Victoria, the Surf Coast and south-west Victoria.
It will open with 172 overnight inpatient beds with room to increase to 262 in future with other facilities including 12 intensive care unit beds, eight special care nursery cots, eight complex care unit beds as well as an emergency department, 11 operating theatres, including one hybrid, six birthing suites, catheter laboratories, endoscopy rooms, a chair renal dialysis unit, day oncology unit and inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation therapies.