The roof going up on the $122.7 million Secure Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit (SMHRU) at the Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) signifies a major milestone, but it’s the people behind the build that are bringing its pioneering vision to life.

The design and development of the mental health facility has been a collaborative effort, incorporating feedback from those with lived experience and the broader community.

Knowing the behind-the-scenes work she and her team are doing to improve health care on the Gold Coast fuels Senior Project Officer Erin McKenzie’s sense of purpose.  

The construction of the $72 million Sub-Acute Building at the Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) has reached a major milestone with the "topping out" of the structure.

During her 52-year nursing career, Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) Nursing Unit Manager, Margaret Connolly stayed true to a promise she made to herself, right up until her retirement this week, aged 70.
“I vowed that I would never treat my staff the way I had been treated as a trainee nurse,” Margaret said.
Margaret reflects proudly on the skills growth among her staff and her own achievements during 37 years with Gold Coast Health.

When you meet Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) Director Support Officer (DSO), Madelene (Maddie) Leverett you’ll probably notice her fabulous hot pink eyelashes. What you’re unlikely to notice is that Maddie has Multiple Sclerosis (MS) – a disease of the central nervous system.

Gold Coast Health is celebrating the creative strengths of mental health consumers this Mental Health Week with the ArtBeat Music and Art Festival in full swing at Gold Coast University Hospital.

This July and August, Gold Coast Health is joining the race to encourage 100,000 more Australians to register as organ and tissue donors.

Short-stay elective surgery patients are receiving quality care as Gold Coast Health adds Robina Hospital’s 23-Hour Ward permanently, to its services.

Community connections crossed borders when a team of our social workers travelled to Lismore Hospital to present a morning tea and gifts to social workers there.

A Gold Coast Health paediatric critical care nurse is taking her research project from the coast to country in remote Queensland courtesy of a $1.6 million grant from the Medical Research Future Fund.