EASTERN Health is asking for suggestions to rename Healesville’s hospital, in time for the site’s opening early next year.
The organisation announced on 28 June that it was seeking submissions for a new name for the Healesville and District Hospital and Yarra Valley Community Health sites, which are currently undergoing a multi-million dollar redevelopment.
Yarra Ranges acting chief of Clinical and Site Operations Paul Leyden said that Eastern Health staff and community members would be able to put forward their ideas that best represented the “future opportunities” that the redevelopment would bring.
“During the redevelopment process, staff and the community have asked Eastern Health whether this would be an opportunity to develop a name that best represents the future of the site,” he said.
“We would now like to offer them an opportunity to have their say.”
Mr Leyden said the Eastern Health board and Health Minister Jill Henessy would have the final sign-off on the proposed new name.
Ideas can be put forward at www.easternhealth.org.au until 10 July, and Eastern Health will be running face-to-face interviews in Healesville and its surrounds in coming weeks.
Mr Leyden said the construction work was “progressing well”, with the site set to open in early 2017.
