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A key possibility is that land at the north end of the Grey Base Hospital site is vacant and<br />

available for such a facility. It is possible that the construction of the Greymouth IFHC could<br />

be integrated with, and even physically connected to, Grey Base Hospital (in a way which colocates<br />

services initially but allows for full integration when the hospital is eventually<br />

refurbished). This option is one that is likely to deliver cost savings for both the IFHC facility<br />

development, and for the Grey Hospital redevelopment, particularly if both projects were done<br />

together.<br />

This site, however, is not the only one being considered. A key limitation of the Grey Hospital<br />

site is its Crown ownership, which reduces its attractiveness to private investors, who have<br />

expressed greater interest in options that involve freehold land.<br />

Three separate options for the Greymouth IFHC have been developed.<br />

Option 1 - greenfield IFHC<br />

The first is a greenfield option that is agnostic about location; it describes a stand alone facility<br />

that could be constructed on either a freehold site elsewhere in Greymouth, or on the vacant<br />

north end of the Grey Hospital campus. This option provides a stand-alone primary care facility<br />

with some community and allied health services relocated and/or duplicated from existing<br />

hospital facilities. Separation from hospital-based services means that this option is the least<br />

supportive of integrated multi-disciplinary health service delivery across the primary-secondary<br />

continuum, but it does deliver an integrated primary & community IFHC. The gross floor area is<br />

4,200 m 2 .and the estimated costs in the region of $14.8m, excluding land.<br />

Business case appendices V12 AC 25Feb2010 Page 121

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