WIN Program

Brain Injury Unit:

Extensions for the Transitional Living Unit and Community Rehabilitation Team

 

 

The new S1.68 million Brain Injury Unit extensions have been completed.

The existing building has been enlarged to provide new facilities for the Transitional Living Unit and the Community Rehabilitation team, which were previously located off-site.

The Community Rehabilitation Team helps clients acquire the everyday living skills necessary to live as independently and cooperatively as possible in the community.

The upper floor of the new extension provides interview and tutorial rooms, a resource room and office space for the team.

The lower floor includes four client bedrooms and kitchen, dining, living and laundry areas for the Transitional Living Unit.

This unit provides short-term intensive residential multi-professional rehabilitation programs, 24 hours per day, six days per week for up to four residents at a time.

Admission to the TLU usually follows a person’s discharge from an Inpatient Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit.

The TLU program aims to improve residents’ ability to do everyday tasks and activities that will enable them to manage safely once they are discharged into the community.

It is jointly funded by NSW Health and the Motor Accidents Authority of NSW (MAA).

 

Above: a bathroom and the kitchen in the new unit.

 

Project snapshot:

Extensions to the existing Westmead Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service building, known as the Brain Injury Unit

Cost: $1.68 million

Facility: a new two-level extension attached to the existing Brain Injury Unit with administrative space on the upper level and a four-bedroom patient residential unit on the lower level

Currently: complete

Location: Redbank Road, Westmead Hospital

 

Project Progress:

Construction start: October 2005

Construction finish: April 2006

First patients: June 2006