Comtex has installed and maintained IT communications cabling for more than 20 years. Continuing this long-term relationship, NSW Health Infrastructure have chosen the Comtex/New Aged Electrical project team to build a new Integrated Ambulatory Care Precinct at St George Hospital – Stage 3. The precinct will co-locate and integrate services to meet the growing needs of the St George and Sutherland community.
The St George Hospital – Stage 3 project is an important boost to healthcare services for the local ageing and diverse community. The Integrated Ambulatory Care Precinct brings together a range of ambulatory, outpatient, and community services that were dispersed throughout the health campus. This new model of care improves clinical integration and care coordination, which will help patients achieve better health outcomes.
The NSW Government is investing $385 million in the St George Hospital – Stage 3 project, including $26 million for car parking. The project will enable the co-location and centralization of services, improve clinical integration and care coordination to help patients achieve better health outcomes, offer future-focused facilities to support best practice models of care, and provide patients, families, and carers with a first-class facility to meet the health needs of the community now and into the future.
The project includes new acquired brain injury unit, behavioural management unit, co-located basement car parking, enhanced diagnostic imaging (medical imaging and nuclear medicine), increased sub-acute and rehabilitation inpatient beds, a new clinical skills centre, a new day rehabilitation unit, outpatient, ambulatory and integrated care services, pathology specimen collection, palliative care, sub-acute aged care unit, surgical services with refurbished operating theatres .
Comtex is a market leader for communications and electrical infrastructure solutions for the NSW Health sector. The family-owned and operated business has over 30 years of experience working with NSW Health. Comtex has installed an Air Blown Fibre System on the St George Hospital Campus and has worked alongside the St George Hospital IT department and several consulting engineers to provide a design with an air-blown fibre solution to enable ease of future upgradeable paths in a difficult-to-access, extremely clean environment.
Costs of new installations and ease of upgrades are greatly reduced because of the restricted access working in such a clean environment. Any fibre upgrades are completed without having to crawl through ceiling spaces. Fibre is blown via vacant tubes from Comms room to comms room throughout the hospital.
The benefits that the hospital has enjoyed include reduced Capex and Opex costs, only installing what fibre is needed on day one, eliminating the need for unused fibres in new networks, upgrading/expanding the network as required, installing single-mode and multimode fibres within the same tube bundle, reducing fibre splicing within the network (fibre point-point), completing network modifications with little disruption to service, transitioning between external (HDPE) and internal grades (LSZH product) without fibre splicing, and being suited in all network scenarios such as restricted access networks, airports, hospitals, prisons, universities, highways, railways, FTTP, high-rise buildings, and MDUs .
Comtex installed a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) on the St George Hospital Campus. The DAS is a 1-sector Active System that has 23 4G SISO Omnidirectional/Panel Antennas. The design covers the entire 4-storey building, and the minimum signal level was referred to the MCF specification. The design was approved by the lead carrier Telstra for this IBC DAS project.
