New pictures show inside the new Royal Adelaide Hospital
ITS rooms have sweeping views of Adelaide Oval and CBD surrounds, complete with ensuite bathrooms and TVs with on-demand movies and state-of-the-art beds. Sound like a hotel? Wrong. It’s the new RAH.
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ITS rooms have sweeping views of Adelaide Oval and CBD surrounds, complete with ensuite bathrooms and TVs with on-demand movies and state-of-the-art beds.
Sound like a hotel? Wrong.
You’re looking at the new Royal Adelaide Hospital.
SA Health has released new photos of the inpatient rooms at the over-budget and long-delayed $2.3 billion project, which still has no formal opening date.
Gone is the old run-down RAH — furnished with “old and dated decor” — replaced with a shiny, light-filled hospital.
New RAH commissioning director Elke Kropf helped design the rooms from scratch.
“One of the important considerations is that we’re building it for the next 100 years,” she said.
“(People today) have very different expectations around treatment and health care ... privacy is incredibly important.”
Privacy patients will have.
Each single-patient room is about 23sq m and all have an ensuite.
Family members and carers will have the option of staying overnight on a daybed in the patient’s room and patient beds have been upgraded.
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The beds include an ability to extend in length for tall people, a more comfortable, specially-designed mattress and in-built digital scales to minimise disturbing patients who require regular weight assessments.
Ms Kropf said some patients would even snag views of Adelaide Oval.
“Every bedroom has a view — either out to the northeast and west or into a courtyard for the south-facing rooms,” she said.
Ms Kropf said more than 70 internal courtyards, with specially designed spaces for specific patients, were incorporated inside the building to aid patient healing.
“(Studies show) if you feel mentally happy, your physically healing responses are much better,” she said.
“There’s so much incidental light — it looks far less institutionalised.”
Ms Kropf told The Advertiser the hospital is almost ready.
“To the naked eye, it does look complete,” she said.
“Basically, all of the mobile equipment is installed and major medical equipment such as X-ray machines, the MRI scanners, the CT scanners, the machines that provide radio therapy,” she said.
According to SA Health, an estimated 85,000 patients will be treated at the new RAH each year.
