{"id":1204,"date":"2019-09-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/a-hospital-to-meet-the-needs-of-a-growing-community\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T16:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T05:39:05","slug":"a-hospital-to-meet-the-needs-of-a-growing-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/a-hospital-to-meet-the-needs-of-a-growing-community\/","title":{"rendered":"A hospital to meet the needs of a growing community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modeina\u2019s mums can now deliver their babies in a hospital close to home, following the recent opening of the state-of-the-art Joan Kirner Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Precinct\u00a0at Sunshine Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Situated on the eastern side of the Sunshine Hospital site, less than fifteen minutes\u2019 drive from Modeina, the 237-bed precinct\u00a0will provide inpatient and outpatient women\u2019s and children\u2019s services for local families.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The eight-storey building houses 20 birthing rooms, 39 special care nursery cots, four operating theatres and, significantly, the West\u2019s first ever neonatal intensive care unit to care for critically ill babies.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Designed to be family-friendly with a focus on easy access, the building also includes outpatient areas offering a large range of clinical services, 64 women\u2019s inpatient beds and another 32 children\u2019s inpatient beds.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The relocation of some services to the new building from the Sunshine Hospital provides more space for expansion of other services, as the population in Melbourne\u2019s West continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<p>By 2026, it\u2019s expected more than 7000 local families will welcome their babies at the Joan Kirner Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s each year.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modeina\u2019s mums can now deliver their babies in a hospital close to home, following the recent opening of the state-of-the-art&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-local-area"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}