Gold Coast University Hospital is a major health facility for the Gold Coast, Australia, completed in September 2013. It involved the building of a new tertiary hospital on the Greenfields site adjacent to Griffith University Gold Coast campus at a cost of $1.8 billion.
Construction commenced on 16 December 2008 when Queensland Premier Anna Bligh turned the first sod. Bovis Lend Lease built the hospital.
The new 750-bed facility offers specialist cancer and cardiac services, neurosciences, trauma and neonatal intensive care. The hospital has seven main buildings, with a total floor space of approximately 170,000 m2 (1,800,000 sq ft) (excluding car parks). The main nine-level-high building is topped with a helicopter landing site.
Staff and equipment were moved from the Gold Coast Hospital at Southport over several months in early 2013. On 27 September 2013 the Queensland Health transferred existing patients from the Gold Coast Hospital in Southport.
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