Repatriation General Hospital

Adelaide, South Australia

Transformational Design

The former Repatriation General Hospital (Repat) has been transformed into the thriving Repat Health Precinct. The reactivated Repat campus includes the following facilities:

26-bed Care Transition Facility for people with dementia and those transitioning to home or an aged-care facility following acute care treatment
28-bed Brain Injury Ward and a 25-bed Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Ward
Veterans’ Wellbeing Centre
Wheelchair sports gymnasium and rehabilitation gym
Town square community hub and open outdoor flexible space in the heart of the campus

Existing former Veterans’ facilities have been refurbished including the Repat Chapel, Remembrance Gardens, Museum and SPF Hall to preserve these community assets for future generations.

A number of other facilities have been developed on the campus including specialist dementia facilities delivered by other public and private operators. These facilities will also share the community and support services designed by STH.

Having been developed over a 70-year period, the site has many complications with regard to older building stock and infrastructure. A key outcome of STH’s design work has been to upgrade service infrastructure across the site, while ensuring continuity of services to the operational hospital areas, particularly the Radiology Facility and Inpatient Wards. Detailed staging for building works and associated services upgrades were considered by the STH design team during planning and have now been enacted by the main contractor.