July 25th, 2025Melton Hospital underway
Major construction is now underway on the new Melton Hospital, a more than $900 million project.
Premier Jacinta Allan, Minister for Health Infrastructure Melissa Horne, Minister for Health Mary-Anne Thomas and Minister for Mental Health Ingrid Stitt recently turned the first sod on what will become a world-class hospital for people in Melbourne’s fast-growing western suburbs.
With site preparation now complete works over the next six months will focus on:
- Excavation including rock breaking and soil removal
- Trenching for in-ground services to be installed
- Piling works and retaining wall construction
- Pouring of concrete footings and ground slabs, forming the foundations of the hospital, and
- Installation of the first tower crane.
The new Melton Hospital will have the capacity to treat 130,000 patients each year and see almost 60,000 patients in its 24-hour emergency department – supporting the communities of Melton, Caroline Springs, Rockbank, Bacchus Marsh and Gisborne.
It will also include at least 274 beds, an intensive care unit, mental health services, maternity and neonatal services, radiology services, outpatient care and teaching and training and research spaces.
The hospital is located on a 68,000 square metre site on Ferris Road – more than three times the size of the MCG – and is designed to meet the health needs of the community as it grows.
It will be an important addition to the hospital network in the west, working with Sunshine Hospital and the new $1.5 billion Footscray Hospital to reduce wait times across the region. It will also be Victoria’s first fully electric hospital and will use carbon neutral power from day one of operations.
The project is expected to create more than 2,400 jobs during construction, and close to 4,000 health related jobs on-site in the hospital’s first year. It is on track for completion in 2029.
