Project Manager for the Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre, Greg Pearl, gave us a detailed report on progress so far. The centre, designed by architects Billard Leece Partnership, will be built facing Borella Road on the Albury hospital’s East Albury site. Plans are for a three-storey centre, built around two courtyards. The ground floor — for radiotherapy treatment — would have three linear accelerator bunkers, with space for a fourth.There will also be meeting, seminar and co nference rooms, treatment and consulting rooms, a wellness centre and a cafe. Clinical trials will be conducted on the first floor where there will also be doctor and specialist consulting rooms, a pharmacy and a day-oncology unit. The unit will have 30 chemotherapy chairs in “pods” of seven.Chemotherapy treatment bays, along the north and east walls, will give patients an outside view. There will be two paediatric chemotherapy chairs in the children’s ward. The 30-bed inpatient ward, on the second floor, has 15 public and 15 private beds. All rooms, around two v-shaped spaces, have courtyard and garden views. Greg said the plan was “about ensuring the cancer centre would be in the right place without compromising the site”. He said the plan took in the views of all groups involved. “We are now in design development, looking at every room and signing off every piece of equipment and furniture,” he said. “That will be complete in December. “The amenity of the centre has been a driving factor, the light it receives from the north.” He said the building would promote a “multi-disciplinary-team approach that is patient-centric, providing a one-stop shop for diagnosis and treatment”. He said the centre would encourage “translational research” and offer respite and non-clinical services such as support and advice and education for patients and community.” There would be a foyer on the northern side of the building and 140 car spaces to the west behind a landscape buffer. Trees in the buffer and courtyards will reflect seasonal change. “Generous waiting spaces will offer some privacy.,” “We have aimed to get away from the usual institutional feeling of hospitals by softening clinical spaces.” |
nference rooms, treatment and consulting rooms, a wellness centre and a cafe. Clinical trials will be conducted on the first floor where there will also be doctor and specialist consulting rooms, a pharmacy and a day-oncology unit. The unit will have 30 chemotherapy chairs in “pods” of seven.Chemotherapy treatment bays, along the north and east walls, will give patients an outside view. There will be two paediatric chemotherapy chairs in the children’s ward. The 30-bed inpatient ward, on the second floor, has 15 public and 15 private beds. All rooms, around two v-shaped spaces, have courtyard and garden views. Greg said the plan was “about ensuring the cancer centre would be in the right place without compromising the site”. He said the plan took in the views of all groups involved. “We are now in design development, looking at every room and signing off every piece of equipment and furniture,” he said. “That will be complete in December. “The amenity of the centre has been a driving factor, the light it receives from the north.” He said the building would promote a “multi-disciplinary-team approach that is patient-centric, providing a one-stop shop for diagnosis and treatment”. He said the centre would encourage “translational research” and offer respite and non-clinical services such as support and advice and education for patients and community.” There would be a foyer on the northern side of the building and 140 car spaces to the west behind a landscape buffer. Trees in the buffer and courtyards will reflect seasonal change. “Generous waiting spaces will offer some privacy.,” “We have aimed to get away from the usual institutional feeling of hospitals by softening clinical spaces.”