Sunshine Coast University Hospital


The Sunshine Coast University Hospital is a hospital on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

History

In July 2012 the Government of Queensland appointed the Exemplar Health consortium comprising Lend Lease, Capella Capital, Siemens and Spotless to deliver the Sunshine Coast University Hospital as a public private partnership. Construction began in October 2012. It opened in March 2017 with 450 beds, this is expected to increase to 738 by 2021. It was the first teaching hospital to open in Australia for 20 years. It cost $1.8 billion.