Improving Access To Life-Saving Health Services

NBRS was engaged with the relocation of the preexisting ground level Helipad at the Port Macquarie Base Hospital to a state-of-the-art rooftop Helipad, located above the current emergency department. The existing Helipad had been located to the East of the hospital site surrounded by on-grade parking facilities and away from the existing emergency department, operating theatres and IPU wards. This led to a compromise in patient transfer and safety.

The relocation has seen the new Helipad built on level 4 over the emergency department located on level 2. To ensure the smooth transfer of patients from the helipad to the emergency rooms, a new dedicated passenger lift/bed servicing lift was designed with an enclosed pedestrian link/patient transfer corridor improving the control, safety and speed staff could start treating patients.

This new Helipad is expected to receive between 50-60 retrievals a year, greatly enhancing the health service in the Mid North Coast community.

ALWAYS READY TO RESPOND

Toll performs over 2500 rescue and retrieval missions each year using one of the largest aeromedical fleets in Australia.

Each of the eight cutting-edge purpose-built Agusta Westland 139 helicopters are fully equipped with the latest aeromedical technology – with the capability of reaching patients in remote locations faster than ever before and treating them in the air – before they reach the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).