Nepean Hospital

Nepean Hospital is a 520-bed teaching hospital in Kingswood. Nepean Hospital is located at the base of the Blue Mountains in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.Nepean Emergency Department is one of the busiest in Australia, treating over 54,000 patients annually. The Emergency Department is a modern, well-equipped, purpose built facility with an adjacent short stay unit. Providing world standard emergency care for a diverse case mix including paediatric patients, it is well supported by multi-speciality services including 24/7 Interventional Cardiology, Haematology, Trauma Services, Neurosurgery, Thoracic surgery, Urology, Plastic surgery, Paediatrics and Obstetrics & Gynaecology.Also on the Nepean Hospital campus are a Neonatal ICU, Tresillian Family Care Centre, Menopause Service, Nepean Cancer Care Centre, Diabetes Service, Rehabilitation medicine and the Wentworth Centre for Drug and Alcohol Medicine. There is 24 hrs access to a state-of-the-art 64-slice CT scanner and MRI services. Nepean hospital boasts a 14 Theatre operating suite, with 6 new operating theatres which were opened in March 2012. Nepean hospital's operating suite is a 24 hour service covering urology; gynae & obstetrics; colo-rectal; upper GIT; Facio-maxillary; plastics; thoracic; pain team; dental; orthopaedics; vascular; neuro; ENT; general; Some Paediatric; some endoscopic and Emergency/Trauma (Trauma due to recommence Jan 2013) surgical specialties.