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Fiona Stanley Hospital (FSH) is a state government hospital and teaching facility in
Murdoch, Western Australia Murdoch is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Melville. Murdoch University, St John of God Hospital Murdoch and Fiona Stanley Hospital are located in Murdoch. The suburb is named after Sir Walter Murdoch, the grea ...
. Completed in December 2013, the hospital is the largest building project ever undertaken for the Government of Western Australia. It is immediately adjacent to the private non-profit St John of God Murdoch Hospital, with the distance between the entrances to the emergency departments of these two hospitals being approximately .


Design

The hospital campus includes the main Fiona Stanley Hospital tower with 18 theatres and over 22 wards on nine levels, an education building complete with replica wards and a large tiered lecture theatre, a separate mental health building, the four-storey State Rehabilitation Service building, a pathology building, an administration building and two multi-storey public carparks. The total floor area is . Most of the 640 patient bedrooms in the hospital are single bed ensuite facilities, with less than 10% accommodating two patients. After completion of the first stage, the initial design of the hospital was to have a capacity of 643 beds. The final design saw the bed capacity increase to 783. The hospital is named after
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and public health campaigner
Fiona Stanley Fiona Juliet Stanley (born 1 August 1946) is an Australian epidemiologist noted for her public health work, her research into child and maternal health as well as birth disorders such as cerebral palsy. Stanley is the patron of the Telethon Kid ...
. The site of the hospital is adjacent to
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,
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,
Wandoo Rehabilitation Prison Wandoo Rehabilitation Prison, formerly Wandoo Reintegration Facility, is an Australian minimum and medium security prison for women located in Murdoch, Western Australia. The prison commenced operation in August 2018 as a dedicated Alcohol and ...
and the private St John of God Murdoch Hospital. It is located south of the Perth
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via the Kwinana Freeway.


Construction

The entire health campus, comprising several buildings, was designed by the Fiona Stanley Hospital Design Collaboration, a joint venture between the local offices of three architectural practices Silver Thomas Hanley, Hames Sharley and
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. After the appointment of the three firms in 2007, construction commenced in 2009, which was estimated to have cost A$2 billion. The directors responsible for the project from each firm were Giorgio Raffa, Warren Kerr and Jeff Menkens. The managing contractor for the project was
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.


Opening

The hospital opened progressively over several months between October 2014 and March 2015. The opening was delayed by six months to October 2014 due to issues with readiness of new integrated state-of-the-art
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clinical systems. The Fiona Stanley facilities incorporate technological innovations such as automated guided vehicles that deliver catering towards, and mobile computer workstations on wheels to assist staff with dispensing of patient medications while accessing required clinical applications. Most bedrooms also have new multi-purpose, wall-mounted swing-arm, bedside patient entertainment systems incorporating touchscreens and keyboards that patients can use for ordering meals, making phone calls, watching TV or movies/games, which can also be redirected for use by clinical staff via a swipe card for functions such as updating patient records and reviewing diagnostic imaging such as
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s.


Phase 1

Phase 1 was the opening of the State Rehabilitation Service, with pathology, pharmacy and medical imaging providing support as required. It opened on 4 October 2014, with patients from Royal Perth Hospital's Shenton Park campus being transferred to the new facility. Approximately 23 vehicles – ambulances, or others suitably equipped – left Shenton Park, transporting more than 80 patients. The new State Rehabilitation Service has a 140-bed capacity.


Phase 2

In Phase 2A, several operating theatres and two 24-bed general wards (surgical and medical) opened on 17 November 2014, along with orthopaedic, anaesthetic, hyperbaric medicine and limited intensive care capability. Phase 2B in early December included opening of significant maternity services (obstetrics, the birth suite and neonatal services) on level 3 of the main building.


Phase 3

Phase 3, the biggest stage, included the opening of the Emergency Department (ED), from 3 February 2015 with 72 beds including a paediatric emergency department. Many ED staff from the Fremantle Hospital moved across on the opening day and the ED at Fremantle closed as scheduled. Most other medical specialities in the main nine-storey main hospital building also opened, including 18 more wards and corresponding outpatient services in 10 clinics.


Phase 4

The final Phase 4 included the opening of the heart and lung transplant services in March 2015. The hospital employs approximately 4,000 clinical staff, as well as administrative, and other support staff such as cleaners, catering, equipment sterilisation services and technical support for hospital facilities such as power and security.


Gallery

File:E37 Fiona Stanley Hospital (October 2014) 19.JPG, View from north-east File:E37 Fiona Stanley Hospital (October 2014) 23.JPG, View from north-west File:E37 Fiona Stanley Hospital (October 2014) 32.JPG, View from south-west File:E37 Fiona Stanley Hospital (October 2014) 44.JPG, View from south-east


Awards

In July 2015, the West Australian chapter of the
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awarded the Fiona Stanley Hospital Design Collaboration (comprising architectural practices Silver Thomas Hanley, Hames Sharley and Hassell) the following awards and commendations: * The George Temple-Poole Award (the program's highest overall honour) * The
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Award for Best Public Architecture * The Wallace Greenham Award Best Sustainable Architecture * A Commendation for Urban Design


Controversy

Throughout its construction phase, Fiona Stanley Hospital was originally planned to be a "
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" hospital, thus meaning all the information is stored within computers. This idea was abandoned shortly after. A number of medication errors were reported in 2016. A 41-year-old man died after suffering avoidable side-effects of a medication to treat his
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. Another patient suffered a catastrophic
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after a medication to treat low blood pressure was inadvertently given in too high dose. Fiona Stanley has also been criticised for sanitary standards of operating theatres. In 2016 a patient contracted
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after undergoing a procedure immediately following a patient with that disease.


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