This online community information session discussed the new Ambulance Victoria branch proposed to be located on English Street in Morwell.
Since the first sod was turned in March this year the focus of much of the construction work has been beneath the surface to excavate and then build the substructure of the future hospital. Let’s take a look at what’s been happening.
In October, more than 130,000 cubic metres of dirt and rock had been excavated (75 per cent of the total amount to be removed from the site).
Eight concrete slabs have now been poured. Work on the ground slab is also underway, including construction of the concrete core, structural columns and suspended slab.
Foundations have been poured and works are nearing ground level.
The New Footscray Hospital Community Consultative Committee and Western Health have worked together to name two of the new tower cranes recently installed on the site of the new hospital.
The two honourees have been unveiled as Dr Hai Bui, a surgeon at the current Footscray Hospital, and the late Mavis Mitchell, an icon of the West and Footscray Hospital’s first matron.
Both recipients have inspiring stories and are being recognised because of their significant contribution to healthcare in the community.
Look up at the skyline on site to spot ‘Hai Bui and Mavis’ on their cranes.
Arriving in Australia as a 19-year-old refugee from Vietnam, Dr Bui attended the University of Melbourne medical school, where he studied medicine and learned to speak English at the same time. He is now an upper gastrointestinal surgeon for Western Health and has dedicated his life, and much of his career, to the people of the West.
Dr Bui is commended by his colleagues for the enthusiasm and innovation he brings to the role, but more importantly his commitment to help ease the lives of the patients in his care.
The late Mavis Mitchell is remembered as an icon of the West and one whose story is well known within Footscray Hospital and Western Health.
Returning to Australia following time in the British Army’s Nursing Service during World War II, she then became Footscray Hospital’s first matron in 1952.
The naming of the crane will be an extension to celebrating the legacy she left behind.
She is currently honoured through the Mavis Mitchell Memorial Scholarship and the Mavis Mitchell Room at Footscray Hospital, acknowledging her commitment to nurse education and leadership.
Tower crane work is team work. Each tower crane is operated by a team of four including one driver and three ground crew.
While the driver is operating the crane, the rest of the crane crew keep their feet firmly on the ground, hooking up loads, keeping in contact with the driver and unhooking the load after it reaches its new location on site.
Cranes are delivered and assembled on site on large trucks, with a total of 10 cranes being used to build the new hospital.
Eight cranes have already been installed this year, with two more to be erected in 2022. For the keen crane spotters, you may also notice there are mobile cranes used to lift certain loads or help install or maintain fixed tower cranes.
When Multiplex’s tower crane drivers are shifting loads around the 40,000 square metre site, they are doing so from around 70 metres above ground level. This means crane operators need a special licence to perform the job.
The largest crane on the new hospital site is able to lift loads weighing up to 25 tonnes.
The award-winning new Footscray Hospital virtual engagement room closed on 31 May 2022. The accessible version of the virtual engagement room continues to be available on our website.
Recently we launched a virtual engagement room for the New Footscray Hospital Project, where community members are invited to ‘meet the builder’ and learn more about the design and construction of the $1.5 billion new hospital.
While we have been unable to meet in person for much of this year, visitors to the virtual room can explore interviews with the project’s builders and experience a 3D tour of the final designs from the comfort of their home.
The room also includes kids’ activities and an opportunity to contribute to a time capsule that will be placed on the New Footscray Hospital site.
With information in multiple languages, the room showcases construction milestones, design images and the community that has helped shape this once in a generation investment for Melbourne’s West.
The virtual room allows visitors to submit questions to the Project team and download further information.
While our ‘street meet with the builder’ event with our project neighbours was postponed due to the weather, we enjoyed the opportunity to meet with some of our residents when the rain cleared, enjoy a bite to eat from the food truck and answer some of your questions.
Thank you to those who attended the rescheduled event/site drop-in. We look forward to hosting more in person events in 2022.
A new jobs hub is connecting local workers with career opportunities on the $1.5 billion New Footscray Hospital Project. Established by Apprenticeships Victoria in partnership with the Victorian Health Building Authority, Plenary Health, and builder Multiplex, the Jobs Hub provides a one-stop shop for work and training opportunities.
In the heart of Footscray’s retail and café strip, the Jobs Hub will connect industry, contractors, jobseekers, students, social enterprises and the community by creating employment and training opportunities, as well as social value initiatives on the project.
The Jobs Hub combines The Footscray Connectivity Centre and Victoria University’s Skills and Jobs Centre under the same roof at Metro West.
The ‘Connectivity Centre’ concept is a Multiplex initiative used on major projects nationally since 2008. The Centre helps companies to increase the number of apprentices and trainees on major projects and meet the Government’s Local Jobs First Policy requirement that at least10 per cent of total work hours are done by apprentices, trainees or cadets.
The New Footscray Hospital Project will employ more than 2,000 people at peak construction, of which an estimated 177 are new, project-specific jobs, including 70 apprenticeships, traineeships and cadetships.
The Connectivity Centre and Jobs Hub is located at 138 Nicholson Street, Footscray. If you are interested in employment and training opportunities at the New Footscray Hospital contact footscray@theconnectivitycentre.com.au.
Contact the project hotline at (03) 9999 1985 or email nfhenquiry@health.vic.gov.au.
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This project is being delivered by the Victorian Health Building Authority in partnership with Western Health, and the Plenary Health consortium.
Welcome to our second project newsletter!
After nine months of construction the site of the new Footscray Hospital has been transformed, with excavation of more than 130,000 cubic metres of dirt and rock. Around 25 per cent of excavation work remains, which is expected to be completed through January, February and March next year.
Work on the ground slab is now underway, including construction of the concrete core, structural columns and suspended slab.
Neighbours and locals keeping track of the construction works will start to recognise the separate hospital buildings as they take form and begin to emerge from the footprint foundations.
Eight cranes have already been installed on site with two more to arrive early in the New Year.
We appreciate the understanding and support of the community this year and hope you enjoy reading about the new hospital’s progress. All works will stop over the Christmas break with the last day on site planned for 22 December and the first day back on 11 January 2022.
The project team wishes all our neighbours and stakeholders a restful holiday.
Over the past 12 months we’ve made significant progress on a broad range of projects, including completion of some of our biggest redevelopments.
Some are city shaping, some are system changing, but all will have a significant impact on the ability of our healthcare system to respond to future pandemics
The Victorian Health Building Authority delivers infrastructure projects and programs for the health, mental health and aged care portfolios.
existing health assets managed
major projects completed to date
major capital projects in delivery
maintenance plans managed
asset management plans delivered
master plans delivered
entity plans completed
community consultation committees delivered
health service site reviews managed
NABERS hospital ratings completed at public hospitals
reduction in carbon emissions
The Authority played a critical role in the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
View of the new tower that was delivered as part of the Northern Hospital expansion
ICU beds delivered
aerosol study in Australia
expert Health Technical Advice for health services
of heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) works across the state
to increase capacity and provide testing and response services
The former Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in East Melbourne was recommissioned to include 84 beds over eight floors to offer surge response by providing care for some lower-acuity patients.
A total of 45 new hospital beds were made available at Bendigo Hospital. The new hospital also has built-in capacity for 20 additional intensive care beds if they are required in emergency situations.
The former Geelong Private Hospital was brought back to life – with the disused building upgraded and refurbished to provide a new acute respiratory assessment clinic with 50 new beds and consulting rooms.
Level 2 of Baxter House was refurbished and opened as a respiratory clinic during the pandemic.
A further 300 intensive care unit beds were commissioned at the Alfred Hospital, Austin Hospital and Monash Medical Centre in Clayton – as part of a boost to establish an extra 4,000 ICU beds across Victoria.
The expansion of Northern Hospital in Epping was accelerated by four months in 2021. The seven-storey expansion has added 96 new inpatient beds, three operating theatres, 18-bed intensive care unit, 10-bed cardiac care unit and includes a 28-bed inpatient unit with pandemic functionality. The development will allow an additional 10,000 patients to be treated every year.
Project highlights across our Health portfolio.
Sunshine Hospital emergency department
Following an extensive evaluation process, and after achieving financial close in early 2021, construction began in March 2021 on the $1.5 billion New Footscray Hospital Project.
The new hospital is the largest health infrastructure project in Victoria’s history. Situated in one of the state’s fastest growing regions, the new hospital will treat approximately 15,000 additional patients and enable around 20,000 additional people to be seen by the emergency department each year.
During the pandemic the communications team launched a virtual engagement room, where community members are invited to explore interviews with the builders and experience a 3D tour of the design. With kids’ activities and in multiple languages, the virtual engagement room has ensured community members can stay connected with the project.
To inform the design of the redevelopment, the Authority consulted with the local community, including people with lived experience of mental health illness, Aboriginal health representatives, staff and volunteers at Frankston Hospital.
The consultation process sought and considered feedback on a range of topics including the prioritisation of healthcare services, the use of public spaces and amenities, cultural safety and the vision and aspirations of the community. The feedback, which included more than 580 contributions, was captured in an engagement report and provided to the respondents shortlisted to deliver the redevelopment. Through understanding the views and aspirations of the local community, the successful consortium will have the best opportunity to design and build a hospital for Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula that reflects the community it serves.
The project successfully completed its market testing process in 2020 with three bidding consortia announced to participate in a Public Private Partnership procurement process.
In early 2021, the Authority established a community consultative committee for the $541.6 million Ballarat Base Hospital development. Chaired by former Premier and Ballarat local the Hon. Steve Bracks, alongside local members Juliana Addison and Michaela Settle, the committee provides a forum for the local community and representatives from Ballarat Health Services, local council and other key community groups to contribute to the final designs of the redevelopment, including wayfinding, family and outdoor spaces.
The project scope was increased to renew the central energy plant for the hospital and provide additional ancillary space including a new pharmacy. Planning and design development is now well underway with architects and consultants appointed.
Once completed, the redevelopment will deliver a new emergency department, a women and children’s hub, state-of-the-art theatre suite and an extra 100 inpatient and short stay beds. A new and expanded critical care floor will bring together operating theatres, procedure rooms, an expanded intensive care unit, endoscopy suites and consulting rooms – delivering capacity for an additional 4,000 surgeries every year.
Work on the $123 million early parenting centres expansion and upgrade project continues to progress with most site locations announced in 2021 and design development close to completion.
The project will upgrade and expand facilities at existing centres in Footscray and Noble Park. It will also build and establish four new centres in the growing areas of Frankston, Casey, Wyndham and Whittlesea. Three new centres will be built in the regional areas of Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong. Once complete, the project will more than triple the number of early parenting centres in Victoria.
Learn more about early parenting centres expansion and upgrade.
The $675 million investment to build ten community hospitals close to major growth areas progressed with community engagement, design development and land acquisition well underway.
The program will support new developments in Mernda, Eltham area, Point Cook and the inner-south of Melbourne region.
The first stage of the $76.3 million Monash Medical Centre emergency department expansion opened in March 2021, delivering a new emergency department and triage entrance, a dedicated children’s emergency area, resus bay and new technology.
The next stage of the expansion is due for completion by January 2022 and will refurbish and upgrade the existing emergency department and deliver a separate 24-hour short-stay unit providing mental health and drug and alcohol urgent care and support.
Learn more about the Monash Medical Centre emergency department expansion.
The Victorian Government invested $34.9 million in the Sunshine Hospital emergency department redevelopment. Completed in early 2021, the project has expanded and refurbished the hospital’s emergency department, adding 65 new spaces – more than doubling current capacity.
It also features an expanded children’s section. This kids-only area is specially designed to provide approximately 19,700 kids a year a calmer, more compassionate environment to receive emergency care
Learn more about the Sunshine Hospital emergency department redevelopment.
Work on the $564 million Victorian Heart Hospital has not missed a beat throughout the year with the main structural works now complete and works on the façade and internal fit-out well underway.
Located on the Monash University Clayton campus, Australia’s first standalone specialist cardiac hospital will integrate clinical cardiology services, research, and education to create a centre of excellence. Patients with heart disease will have access to world-class cardiac care and research all under one roof.
Designs for the $217 million expansion project were released in early 2021 and construction on the multi-million-dollar project is now underway.
Scheduled for completion in late 2023, the expansion will deliver a new emergency department resuscitation bay, three operating suites, six intensive care unit beds, 44 inpatient beds and a medical imaging and pathology unit.
Learn more about the Latrobe Regional Hospital expansion – Stage 3A.
Construction on the $115 million Wonthaggi Hospital expansion project got underway in early 2021 and is on track to be completed in 2023.
The project will deliver three operating theatres plus a procedure room, a new emergency department with 18 additional treatment spaces, and a 32-bed inpatient ward. Once complete, hospital staff will have the capacity to treat 26,000 extra emergency patients every year.
Project highlights across our Mental Health portfolio.
Artist's impression of North West Metropolitan Youth Prevention and Recovery Care
The $492 million investment to deliver new acute public mental health beds across four Victorian health services is underway with designs released and construction started at all sites.
As a key recommendation of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System, people with a variety of views and perspectives were engaged to inform the facility and service designs for the expansion project. This includes people with lived experience of mental illness, such as consumers, families and carers, as well as medical, nursing and allied health professionals and other staff.
Planning for a $349.6 million upgrade of Thomas Embling Hospital is underway. The upgrade will deliver an additional 82 secure mental health beds and help transform Victoria’s forensic mental health system.
The expansion will include a new dedicated 34-bed women’s precinct, a 48-bed medium security men’s facility, as well as clinical administration facilities - fulfilling a key recommendation of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System.
In early 2021 a site was selected, and designs released for the $8.4 million Women’s Prevention and Recovery Care centre in Melbourne’s west. In mid-2021, construction on the 12-bed centre got underway.
The centre will support women requiring treatment and care for mental ill health and will be the first in Victoria to offer accommodation for accompanying dependents.
Learn more about the Women’s Prevention and Recovery Care Centre.
Construction of the new $11.9 million Youth Prevention and Recovery Care centre in Parkville is on track to be completed by the end of 2021.
Designed to increase access to safe, flexible and responsive short and medium-term mental health services, the new centre will help fill the transitional gap between community and hospital-based care.
With recovery-focused treatment and around-the clock clinical care, the new state-of-the-art facility will provide support for 200 young people aged 16-25, each year.
Learn more about the North West Youth Prevention and Recovery Care Centre
A new 12-bed state-wide Child and Family Centre is underway with designs finalised to provide specialised mental health care and wellbeing services to children aged up to 11 years alongside their families.
Staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the centre will offer early intervention treatment and care in a safe, residential setting. Up to three families will be able to stay onsite while they receive flexible, family centred therapy and support from highly trained child and family mental health clinicians.
Project highlights across our Aged Care portfolio.
St George's Hospital aged care facility (Berengarra)
In early 2021 a new $55.57 million aged care facility was completed and commenced operation.
Named 'Berengarra', the 90-bed facility is on the St George’s Hospital site and includes two separate three-storey houses with private rooms and garden outlooks.
The project is part of the largest ever revamp of Victoria’s public sector residential aged care facilities, delivering best-practice care, and integrated health and wellbeing services in a home-like environment.
The four-storey Wantirna Aged Care facility reached structural completion in July 2021. The $81.58 million facility, which is on track to be completed in 2022, will provide 120 older Victorians with a safe, modern, and comfortable place to call home.
A new $3.2 million dementia friendly unit at Creswick Nursing Home was completed and commenced operation. Funded via the Regional Health Infrastructure Fund (RHIF), the upgrade included a new 12-bed unit purpose-built to provide best practice dementia care.
The project also delivered improvements to the existing residential aged care facility, including a consolidation of common areas and upgrades to heating and cooling systems as well as upgraded mechanical, hydraulic, electrical and fire services in the complex.
Learn more about the Creswick Nursing Home dementia-friendly unit.
The Authority delivered over $1.2 billion across 33 grant programs to improve the safety and quality of services, enhance capacity and efficiency, support contemporary models of care and improve patient and staff amenity.
Grant funding includes the $200 million Metropolitan Health Infrastructure Fund which funded 40 projects including, $10.98 million to expand and reconfigure Sunshine Hospital’s pharmacy and $5.7 million for facility improvements enabling better care of our Elders at the Aboriginal Community Elders Services.
It also includes the $120 million Regional Health Infrastructure Fund (RHIF). The RHIF funded 107 projects including more than $4.5 million to upgrade operating theatres at Central Rural Health Daylesford so more locals can get the surgeries they need, closer to home.
Public sector aged care services also shared $10 million in funding from the Rural Residential Aged Care Facilities Renewal Program. The program funded 22 projects including $2.118 million for a new kitchen, a large family and resident community lounge and dining area, disability access improvements and nurse call upgrades at Rupanyup Nursing Home.
Learn about our new design guidelines.
Developed in partnership with the Department of Health's Aged care branch, the new guidelines set out requirements for facilities to enable person-centred evidence-based practice.
These guidelines were developed to inform implementation of the ‘Modernisation of metropolitan Melbourne public sector residential aged care strategy’ to improve the quality and safety of our public sector residential aged care facilities.
Learn about the Public Sector Residential Aged Care Facilities Design Guidelines.
The Authority launched its Universal Design Policy in June 2021. The design policy is a first for any government authority in Australia. It recognises that human ability is enabled, supported and encouraged by universally designed environments that provide everyone with the opportunity to participate unassisted or with minimal support.
The policy also includes a Universal Design Charter, part of a Victorian Government strategy to increase awareness and knowledge about universal design in the community. It will apply to all projects delivered by the Authority, ensuring that we continue to deliver innovative and equitable social infrastructure for all Victorians.
Discover key outcomes from our sustainability performance report.
The Environmental Sustainability Strategy 2018-23 set out a five-year commitment to improve the Victorian health system’s environmental performance and to ensure it is resilient to climate change.
Now at the half-way point, in 2021 we released our Sustainability performance report. The report also includes, for the first time, data on Victoria’s National Australian Built Environment Rating Scheme (NABERS) hospital ratings.
Key results to date:
In 2022 work will continue to complete the actions identified in the strategy including:
We have developed key policies and frameworks to apply best-practice asset management for the Victorian health asset portfolio during 2020-21.
In early 2021 we launched the Asset Information Management System (AIMS) which includes over 180 million datapoints for over 130 health services across Victoria.
The system covers engineering assets, buildings, land and medical equipment and is designed to provide visibility over our asset portfolio, perform strategic asset management planning, and uplift health services asset information management capabilities through continuous collaboration with the Authority.
The Victorian health asset management communities of practice continued local chapter events through virtual platforms. These bring together the functions of corporate, service delivery, finance, capital and facilities management to support health asset management practitioners to collaborate and share knowledge to improve asset management capability.
Ten regional and nine metropolitan local chapter events were held, with the development of technical advice for critical assets and asset key performance indicators.
The department publishes HTA’s (Health Technical Advice) to assist health services, consultants and contractors to effectively manage risk and performance of public health facilities.
HTA’s published include:
The department conducted asset condition assessments for 90 sites and reviewed 47 maintenance plans and over 80 asset management plans.
Read the complete 2021 Year in Review report.
This second edition includes a Q&A from our CEO, tips for staying on top of procurement opportunities, highlights from the past year and a survey where you can share your thoughts on what you’d like to hear more about in 2022.
Thanks to all our suppliers and partners for your hard-work and dedication over the past 12 months.
We wish you a happy and safe holiday.
Rob Fiske CEO VHBA'We look forward to collaborating with our community, colleagues and partners on exciting projects and programs of work in coming months.'
Rob Fiske, VHBA CEO shares his highlights from the past year and focus for 2022.
Q: What are your 2021 highlights?
Our industry partners and colleagues have been instrumental in supporting the department and the whole of Government response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite the challenges over the past two years, we have successfully accelerated a number of key projects to increase capacity within the health care system and provided technical and engineering advice for health services to manage their infrastructure response to COVID-19.
This year saw the completion of some of our biggest projects, including the $162.7 million expansion of Northern Hospital in Epping, emergency department expansions at both Monash Medical Centre and Sunshine Hospital and a new Youth Prevention and Recovery Care centre in Parkville.
Some are city shaping, some are system changing, but all our projects will have a significant impact on the ability of our healthcare system to respond to future service demand.
Interior of the refurbished Monash Medical Centre emergency department
We’re committed to designing buildings that are accessible to everyone – regardless of age, disability, gender or cultural background. We interviewed Michael Walker, Principal Advisor, Universal Design about designing buildings that put people first.
Michael Walker on universal design
To help our partners and suppliers navigate new procurement opportunities, we’re looking at ways we can provide further resources and support.
We’d love to hear your thoughts on what information you would find helpful by completing a short, anonymous survey.
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In this edition, we are celebrating the end of 2021 and the more than 120 projects we are delivering to support the health and wellbeing of Victorians. We also explore universal design, designing for dementia and designing facilities that support Victorians who are experiencing mental ill health.
It’s been a challenging year, but now it’s time to enjoy the festive season with loved ones. We wish you a safe and happy holiday season!
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Over the past 12 months we’ve made great progress on a broad range of health infrastructure projects, including completion of some of our biggest redevelopments.
We take a look at some of the highlights from our health, mental health and aged care portfolios in 2021.
existing health assets managed
major projects completed to date
major capital projects in delivery
maintenance plans managed
asset management plans delivered
master plans delivered
entity plans completed
community consultation committees delivered
health service site reviews managed
NABERS hospital ratings completed at public hospitals
reduction in carbon emissions
Universal design means designing something so that it’s accessible to as many people as possible – regardless of age, disability, gender or cultural background. In health infrastructure, universal design means building hospitals, mental health facilities and aged care homes that everyone can use.
In recognition of Human Rights Day, we spoke to Michael Walker, Principal Advisor on Universal Design at VHBA, about designing buildings that put people first.
Learn more about the health infrastructure projects we are delivering.
We’re excited to launch a virtual engagement room for the new Footscray Hospital! Community members are invited to ‘meet the builder’ and learn more about the design and construction of the $1.5 billion new hospital – the largest ever health infrastructure investment in the state.
Visitors to the virtual room can explore interviews with the builders and experience a 3D tour of the final designs, from their comfort of their home.
New Footscray Hospital virtual engagement room
Located on the corner of Geelong and Ballarat Roads, the new Footscray Hospital will support the increasing demand from Melbourne’s booming western suburbs, ensuring families can get the care they need close to home.
Building a bigger and better Footscray Hospital will cut wait times and reduce pressure on nearby hospitals. With an increase of nearly 200 beds, the new hospital will treat approximately 15,000 additional patients and enable around 20,000 additional people to be seen by the emergency department each year.
It’s been a busy year on the Bass Coast, with structural works now complete on the $115 million expansion of Wonthaggi Hospital. The project is on track to be completed in the first half of 2023.
We’ve released designs and completed early works on the Bendigo Hospital Day Rehabilitation Centre project, bringing the $59.5 million project one step closer. On track to be completed in mid-2023, the project will construct a new hydrotherapy pool and consolidate rehabilitation services into one convenient location.
Artist's impression of Bendigo Hospital Day Rehabilitation Centre
Learn more about how we are responding to recommendations from the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System.
Each year, one in five Victorians will experience mental ill health or psychological distress. Sometimes these challenges to mental health are eased with time and some level of support. At other times, people need more specialised treatment and support.
We took a look at some of the different mental health facilities we’re delivering, and how they’ll support Victorians experiencing mental ill health or psychological distress on their recovery journey.
Artist's impression of park at Royal Melbourne Hospital mental health facility
Locations for five new Youth Prevention and Recovery Care (YPARC) centres across Victoria have been announced. The $141 million project will build five new 10-bed facilities located in Greater Geelong, Greater Ballarat, Greater Shepparton, Heidelberg and Traralgon.
YPARC centres provide residential short and medium-term treatment and support for young people aged between 16-25, who are living with, or diagnosed with, mental ill health.
Example of a Youth Prevention and Recovery Care centre
Learn about how we are supporting Victorians aged in place and with dignity and respect.
How can we design for people with dementia? Dementia-friendly design involves creating environments that are welcoming and meaningful. It uses a flexible approach that maximises people’s freedom and involvement through supportive, familiar and safe surroundings.
Dementia-friendly design at Creswick Nursing Home
We reached a significant construction milestone on the $81.58 million Wantirna residential aged care facility, with the main structural works now complete. The four-storey residential aged care facility will be home to 120 residents, each enjoying the dignity and independence of their own private bedroom, complete with ensuites.
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