Health and Wellbeing Hub Project
La Trobe University is creating a world-class Health and Wellbeing Hub on its Bundoora Campus. The Hub will be made up of a series of co-located health service offerings and forms part of our multi-year development plan to create a University City in Melbourne’s north, driving jobs and economic growth with $5 billion of public and private investment.
Overview
The Health and Wellbeing Hub will bring a wide range of health, wellbeing and education benefits to the local community and continue to strengthen La Trobe’s world-class research, education expertise and established clinical and industry partnerships in the health and wellbeing sector.
Project benefits
- Future health services delivered to a growing Northern region, including much needed services to an aging population
- Supporting health services and research employment as envisaged by Plan Melbourne and the La Trobe National Employment & Innovation Cluster
- Provide additional rehabilitation and aged care services to compliment acute services already delivered at Austin Health and Northern Health
- Delivery of the La Trobe University Master Plan's proposed health precinct, and increasing the existing medical presence on Plenty Road
- Increasing linkages between La Trobe University and the health services industry for research, teaching and education placement opportunities
La Trobe Private Hospital
In early 2024, La Trobe University and Healthscope officially opened La Trobe Private Hospital, a state-of-the art centre for patient care, research and education, located within La Trobe’s University City of the Future health precinct.
La Trobe Private Hospital is a 34-bed hospital with a focus on orthopaedics, general surgery, plastic surgery, and urology. The hospital offers four operating theatres and a four-bed High Dependency Unit, along with a new café, radiology clinic and consulting suites.
Telehealth Facilities
As part of our Health and Wellbeing Hub, we've created new high-tech telehealth facilities to train the next generation of healthcare professionals. Find out more about the facilities.
Design features
The Health & Wellbeing Hub is part of the Melbourne Campus' 6 Star Green Star Community status.
Frequently Asked Questions
The hub is an exciting development that has seen the establishment of the La Trobe Private Hospital, a 34-bed private hospital with a focus on orthopaedics, general surgery, plastic surgery, and urology. The hub will also include associated primary healthcare and clinical services that will be made available to the local community. There will also be expanded space for aged care, child care, rehabilitation, prosthetics, nursing and psychology.
Importantly, it will also complement the existing health education services at the university, giving students world-class experience.
The hub will be located at the north of the campus, near the Plenty Road gateway. The site is anchored by the new La Trobe Private Hospital and is close to public transport.
The region already has an undersupply of 210 hospital beds and 73 allied health service providers. Population in the Banyule and Darebin municipalities is set to soar by 52,000 people in the next 15 years, so the problem is only going to get worse. There is also a need for additional aged care capacity in the region.
La Trobe wants to be a part of the solution and is taking action now to address an emerging health challenge. The hub will build on La Trobe’s world-class reputation in allied health teaching, learning and research, and revolutionise the provision of local health services.
Having some of the world’s best health and educational facilities on their doorsteps will greatly boost the region and further improve the liveability of Melbourne’s north.
The Health & Wellbeing Hub will create a web of health services that align with and strengthen the university’s teaching, learning and research and provide valuable training and employment pathways for students and staff.
The Health & Wellbeing Hub will be a Green Star Community development, with environmental best practice at the fore. This places some of the world’s most stringent requirements on land use, energy efficiency, material use and management of other impacts. These self-imposed requirements are an important part of delivering on one of La Trobe University’s core values which includes ‘pursuing excellence and sustainability in everything we do’.
For more information, contact us:
T: (+61 3) 9479 2017
E: Future.City@Latrobe.edu.au
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