Youang Surgery Centre opens

A MAJOR construction milestone has been achieved at the site of the Barwon Women’s and Children’s, with the newly expanded Youang Surgery Centre now open.

The modern and purpose-built facility will be the home of surgery and endoscopy services, taking over from the ageing Gretta Volum Centre.

The Youang Surgery Centre consists of four theatres, covering general surgery, urology, max fax, ENT, gynaecology and plastics.

Victorian Minister for Health Infrastructure Melissa Horne, Geelong MP Christine Couzens, Bellarine MP Alison Marchant and Corangamite federal member Libby Coker visited the newly expanded centre last week.

 

Ms Horne welcomed the upgrades.

“It was fantastic to be in Geelong to see the new and expanded Youang Surgery Centre, speaking to patients and staff about the difference it’s going to make having modern and accessible healthcare close to home,” she said.

Ms Couzens said the centre was “a huge milestone” for the Barwon Women’s and Children’s, which would “provide more local jobs and ensuring families in Geelong have access to high-quality women’s health, maternity and paediatric care”.

 

The move paves the way for the new Bellarine West Specialist Outpatient Clinic to be built in place of the Gretta Volum Centre.

The space will have additional multi-day beds, birthing suites, operating theatres and outpatient clinic rooms.

It will also deliver a new neonatal and parent care unit, expanding the capacity and function of the existing special care nursery.