Springwood Health Hub to cater for children and boost vax rates
A $33 million medical hub with specialist suites has been forecast to put a hole in alarmingly low southside child vaccination rates, when it opens in January.
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A $33 million medical hub with specialist suites has been forecast to put a hole in alarmingly low southside child vaccination rates, when it opens in January.
About 7 per cent of children south of Brisbane, including in the Springwood area, are not fully vaccinated for diseases including polio, meningococcal, pneumonia and varicella.
That is about 1.5 per cent lower than the national average of 94.4 per cent.
In Queensland, only the Gold Coast and Central Queensland had lower vaccination rates for two-year-old children.
Developers of the seven-storey Springwood Health Hub said the centre would meet an undersupply of health care for the area, known for its low socio-economic status and high rate of vulnerable children.
Centre developer Rogerscorp director Simon Rogers said Springwood was an ideal spot for the centre, which he believed would revolutionise southside health care, particularly for youngsters.
“Compared with Australia and other priority health networks in Queensland, Springwood ranks highly for potentially preventable hospitalisations, the proportion of unimmunised children, and the proportion of developmentally vulnerable children,” he said.
“As the only purpose-built new medical facility currently planned in the area, the Springwood Health Hub will bring a new level of convenient, quality health care to this underserviced region.”
The centre, which will be within 10km of Logan Hospital, Sunnybank Private, QE II Hospital, and the new Eight Mile Plains Satellite Hospital, will be the largest privately run health hub in the region.
It will host essential services including consulting medical specialists to allied health providers, GPs and pharmacists.
Parking will be at a premium but there will be an underground carpark, ambulance parking bays, patient drop-off zone, and large hospital-grade lifts.
Tenants including MyHealth GP, iMed Radiology and Southside Endoscopy Centre, have already secured half of the office spaces in the building, expected to service about 600 patients a day.
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