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Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital is a hospital in Sydney, Australia, located on Palmerston Road in Hornsby. It is a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney.As a provider of care since 1933, the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital is a major metropolitan hospital, and is a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney. Staff members who care for over a quarter of a million people living in the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai area. The Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Health Service also incorporates six Community Health Centres and ten Early Childhood Centres.Recent changes in NSW State government has meant that the hospital is now under the control of the Northern Sydney Local Health District. It was previously part of the Northern Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service.While much of the hospital is of a ramshackle design, the main building is a two storey circular design (named Lumby building for its benefactor), which forms the emblem of the hospital.The Emergency, Paediatrics and Maternity building was opened in late 2006. It is called the HOPE Building (Hospital's Obstetrics, Paediatrics, & Emergency) and now also houses an emergency Mental Health Unit the PECC.In late 2013 the Mental Health Centre building was opened.On the 5 September 2015, the STAR Building (Surgical, Theatres, Anesthetic, Recovery) was officially opened by NSW Minister for Health Jillian Skinner.The hospital is currently under stress as senior medical staff declare that the physical infrastructure is not compatible with modern healthcare.Much of the hospital has been left to deteriorate structurally because of decades of indecision regarding its future. Only more recent response, after outcry over publicly released photographs of possums in ICU and the state the hospital wards and many clinical areas of the hospital, by senior medical staff still frustrated nothing had changed, spurred action by the Minister and Health Department to patch up the worst areas.
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