UnitingCare Queensland

UnitingCare Health is one of the largest not-for-profit private hospital groups in Queensland  and is a service group of UnitingCare Queensland (UCQ). The hospital group is a major provider of healthcare services in Queensland which operates more than 1,000 licensed hospital beds and employs over 4,100 people.

UnitingCare deliver a range of specialist healthcare services out of four unique hospitals, across South East Queensland including the Wesley Hospital and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital in Brisbane, Buderim Private Hospital on the Sunshine Coast and St Stephen’s Hospital in Hervey Bay. In 2018 the group of hospitals admitted just under 125,000 Queenslanders and performed more than 88,000 surgical procedures.

Destravis was engaged by UnitingCare to develop a Master Plan for each hospital campus which articulates a clear development pathway to achieving it’s strategic and clinical objectives.

The engagement includes:

• Review of existing hospital facilities, assets and services infrastructure identifying opportunities and constraints for future development
• Identifying and agreeing preferred base-case development scenarios for each of the hospitals
• Mapping existing property tenures within each Hospital Precinct such as leases and strata titles which may influence or constrain future Health Services and asset development
• Developing Capital Cost Estimates and Cash flows forecast to assist with Capital Planning
• Establishing Priority Project Plan to be initiated over the FY20 and FY21 financial years