Orange Health Services, Bloomfield Campus
NSW Health Australia

Overview of Bloomfield Campus

Bloomfield Campus in Orange offers a comprehensive range of inpatient, day, and community mental health services on its 28 hectare campus on Forest Road, Orange NSW. The campus provides inpatient services to residents of this area living with a mental illness. Mental Health staff are also based in a number of Community Mental Health facilities throughout the area. Staff provide safe and best practice mental health programs in the areas of promotion / prevention, early intervention and treatment, rehabilitation and recovery including long-term care.

Orange Health Services, Bloomfield Campus

The service is part of the re-development of Orange and Bathurst Hospitals and the previous Bloomfield Hospital. As a result of the redevelopment Bloomfield is developing new and exciting services for the people who might need to use their facilities and therefore creates exciting job opportunities for staff. For that reason, we hope that you enjoy working in this exciting time for mental health.

A new Orange Health Service is currently under development on Forest Road at the present Bloomfield campus and will consist of acute, community and allied health services from the existing Orange Base Hospital as well as Mental Health Services. Some services will remain in their present location, including Community Mental Health (Curran Centre) and Alcohol & Other Drug Services at Kite Street.

The new Health Service will have a capacity for approximately 450 beds comprising acute and mental health services. 

Mental Health Services include Acute Mental Health, Mental Health Intensive Care Unit (MHICU), and High Dependency Unit (HDU).  Patients will be admitted in accordance with the NSW Mental Health Act 2007 and accepted criteria for inpatient care.  A 20 bed State-wide medium secure rehabilitation unit will provide a tertiary medium secure mental health rehabilitation service.  Those cared for in this unit will have a safe and secure environment for long term rehabilitation of complex behavioral problems resulting from mental illness.

A 20 bed Forensic unit will provide a state-wide tertiary medium secure forensic mental health service.  Those cared for in this unit will include those who have committed a serious criminal offence.  Care to all patients will be guided by the forensic provisions of the Mental Health Act 1997.  The previous admission unit, Canobolas Clinic, will be refurbished to a 20 bed open care step down unit.  Child & Adolescent Mental Health will have a new 10 bed unit to be co-located with Paediatrics servicing the Greater Western AHSs and Greater Southern Area Health Service.

A State Mental Health Service for Acute Older Persons unit will comprise 12 beds in a purpose built acute mental health inpatient facility designed to care for older people who present with acute episodes of mental illness, and very severe Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD).

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