Hospitals 18 February 2026

New Footscray Hospital opens its doors to patients

A new era in healthcare is here for families across Melbourne’s west. Today, your new Footscray Hospital officially opened to patients.

Located on the corner of Geelong and Ballarat roads, the more than $1.5 billion new Footscray Hospital was one of Victoria’s largest ever health infrastructure projects.

The new hospital has now replaced the original Gordon Street Footscray Hospital.

Once fully operational it will provide:

more than 500 inpatient beds:  including same-day, multi-day, critical care, sub-acute, drug and alcohol, and mental health services
acute facilities:  including an emergency department and mental health and alcohol and other drugs hub
specialist facilities:  including cardiovascular/angiographic, operating theatres, procedural and endoscopy spaces and associated recovery spaces
clinical support spaces:  including medical imaging, pharmacy, central sterile services department, outpatients, mortuary and pathology
car parking:  for patients, visitors, staff and other hospital users
teaching, training and research spaces.

The new hospital has capacity to treat approximately 15,000 additional patients and enable around 20,000 additional people to be seen by the emergency department for life-threatening conditions each year.

New Footscray Hospital is operated by Western Health. For more information, visit Western Health’s website.

In this video, take a look at your new hospital.

Take a look at the build and some of the interior and exterior spaces.

Accessible transcript

[Images: aerial footage showing the construction site, followed by the completed hospital; the camera sweeps across the exterior of the new hospital, followed by views of the interior rooms]

[Images: A white transition screen displays the text “In partnership with” and the “Western Health” and “Plenary Health” logos. A sliding transition screen then displays the Victorian Health Building Authority and Victoria State Government logos and the url vhba.vic.gov.au]

[End of transcript]

Visiting new Footscray Hospital

The new Footscray Hospital opened for patient care on 8am 18 February 2026. The original Footscray Hospital closed at the same time.

Visit Western Health’s website for information on opening, services and how to access the new hospital.

Preparing for the move

Behind the scenes, an enormous effort went into preparing for the move to the new hospital.

More than 4,500 staff have completed training on the new hospital’s advanced features and technologies and around 180 patients will be safely transferred to the new site.

Learn more about the new Footscray Hospital project.

Gallery

View of hospital and surrounding main roads

Exterior view of the new Footscray Hospital from Geelong Road.

Main entrance with unique curved ceiling

Inside the main entrance. Each of the hospital’s entries lead into the ‘Hospital Street’, a pedestrian route which wraps around the central green space and connects all areas of the hospital precinct.

Cylindrical tapestry artwork hanging from ceiling

The hand-woven tapestry inside the main entrance area: ‘Welcome to Country – now you see me: seeing the invisible’.

Large footbridge stretches over main road

The 57-metre pedestrian footbridge over Ballarat Road provides a direct connection between the new hospital’s education and research centre and Victoria University’s Footscray Park Campus.