Contact information
- Address: 176 Thomas Street, Broken Hill NSW 2880
- Phone: (08) 8080 1300
- Opening hours: 24 hours
- Visiting hours: hours may vary – please phone to check
About the facility
Broken Hill Hospital is a rural teaching hospital, providing a 10-bed Emergency Department as well as general medical, surgical, obstetric, paediatric, dialysis, oncology unit and acute mental health beds, operating theatres, specialist palliative care, intensive and coronary care units.
Support services include radiology and pathology departments, as well as a wide range of allied and primary health services. Inpatient beds: 27 medical acute beds including palliative care priority beds, 21 surgical beds, 5 ICU/CCU beds, 6 maternity beds, 6 paediatric beds, 6 mental health inpatient beds, 10 sub acute rehabilliation beds, 6 dialysis chairs, 3 operating theatres and 3 recovery beds, 2 Special Care Nursery Level 2 cots.
Services available
- Aboriginal health services
- Cancer care services
- Cardiologist
- Child and adolescent mental health services
- Colonoscopy
- Dermatology
- Dietitians
- Drug and alcohol treatment services
- Ear nose and throat specialists
- Emergency department
- Eye doctors
- Gastroenterologist
- General medicine
- Geriatrics
- Gynaecology
- Hospital
- Hydrotherapy
- Kidney diseases
- Mental health services
- Nursing services
- Obstetrics
- Oncology / haematology
- Oral medicine
- Oral surgery
- Orthopaedics
- Outreach services
- Paediatrics
- Pathology
- Pharmacy
- Physiotherapy
- Plastic surgery
- Podiatry
- Radiology
- Respite care
- Rheumatologist
- Sexual health
- Social work
- Specialist palliative care
- Speech pathologist
- Surgery
- Urologist
- Vascular surgery
- Women's health
Upgrades to the Broken Hill Health Service Emergency Department and Acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit are underway.
In April 2022, the NSW Government announced the Broken Hill Health Service Redevelopment project. The project includes a $12 million upgrade to the hospital’s Emergency Department (ED), which will be reconfigured to better meet the critical health needs of the region and includes tailored treatment spaces for children and those requiring mental health services.
The redevelopment also includes an enhanced Acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit (MHIPU), which is being delivered as part of the NSW Government’s Statewide Mental Health Infrastructure Program (SWMHIP). Once complete, the upgraded mental health and inpatient unit facilities will provide a modern and contemporary therapeutic space with co-designed facilities for people with mental health needs, their families, carers and staff.
Construction of the Acute MHIPU is expected to be complete in mid-2025 and the upgrade of the ED is expected to be complete at the end of 2025. The ED is being built in stages to so that it remains operational for the duration of the project. Information about works and impacts is shared with staff, patients and the community as appropriate.
For more information about the Broken Hill Health Service Redevelopment, please visit the NSW Health Infrastructure website at Broken Hill Emergency Department - Health Infrastructure NSW and Broken Hill Acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit - Health Infrastructure NSW.
You can contact the project team at HI-BrokenHillRedev@health.nsw.gov.au or (02) 8838 8889.