Angie Dobbrick, Executive Director, Caboolture and Kilcoy Hospitals and Woodford Corrections Health
This is an exciting year for Caboolture Hospital.
Together, we will deliver new buildings and new services to improve the health of our community, with the new clinical services building and multi-storey car park opening in the middle of this year.
We all know that parking on campus has been an issue for many years now. Insufficient car parking imposes a barrier to accessing hospital services and places a burden on carers and patients who rely on car park availability.
Our new multi-storey car park will not only improve access for patients, visitors and staff, it will ensure car parking capacity grows in line with our increasing services.
When the multi-storey car park opens, there will be approximately 1500 car parks on the hospital campus each day for patients, visitors and staff to share.
Along with more car spaces, there will also be improved safety and security – especially for hospital staff working evenings and nights. The multi-storey car park will include electrical vehicles charging stations.
Opening the new clinical services building and multi-storey car park will bring great change for our campus. It is important to note another change that will happen at the same time.
When the multi-storey car park opens, a fee will apply to all car parking at Caboolture Hospital. This includes all car parks on the campus, including at-grade parking spaces outside the multi-storey car park.
Because Metro North Health will own and operate the car park, every dollar collected from parking fees will come back into the public health system. Those fees will help pay for the car park’s construction, operation, ongoing maintenance and future technology upgrades.
We are now able to share the fee structure for patients, visitors and staff parking at the hospital. These parking fees are set by Queensland Health and the State Government.
For patients and visitors, fees range from $3 to $7 for visits between one to three hours, with $13 being the maximum fee per 24-hour period. Concessions will be available for eligible patients and carers, in line with our existing Metro North policy.
A staff parking rate of $7.95 per day will also be available.
Staff will be able to access this staff rate in different ways, with options for those who work full time, part time and casual workers. Salary packaging arrangements will also be available for eligible staff.
More information on how you can apply for a staff pass and access salary packaging arrangements will be made available soon.
I know many of you will have questions, so there will be opportunities for questions and further information over the next couple of weeks through several different forums.
Providing easy and convenient access to the hospital is an important part of a patient’s care journey, and this is an exciting outcome to deliver this car park for our staff, patients and community.
If you have any questions about how car parking is changing, please email CabooltureCarPark@health.qld.gov.au.
Take care,
Angie.