Blacktown Hospital

Blacktown Hospital is an acute care hospital in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia, about 34 kilometres from the Sydney CBD. Together with Mount Druitt Hospital and associated community health centres, it is a part of the Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD).Blacktown Hospital provides a wide range of health services including: Ante-Natal/Gynaecology Unit Delivery Suite Post-Natal Special Care Nursery Acute Medical Coronary Care and Coronary Stepdown Unit Diabetes Center Acute Rehabilitation Acute Stroke Unit Pre-Admission Clinic Day Procedure Unit Orthopaedic Surgical Surgical/Medical Short Stay Unit Intensive Care Unit High Dependency Oncology Services Mental Health Regional Dialysis Centre Community Health Services including Dental. It operates a 24-hour emergency department and a full Intensive Care Unit and CCU. It also has 24 hour medical imaging and pathology services on site.The hospital is a teaching hospital of the Western Sydney University's Blacktown-Mount Druitt Clinical School and University of Sydney's Western Clinical School.The Hospital also includes Bungarribee House, a psychiatric unit that, along with Cumberland Hospital provides mental health services to western Sydney. The hospital's sub-acute mental health care facility, called the Melaleuca Unit, opened in 2014.