Clinical Sustainment
Client: Women’s & Children’s Hospital
Location: Adelaide, SA / Kaurna Country
With plans for the new Women’s & Children’s Hospital underway, SA Health required strategic upgrades to the existing hospital to ensure continuity of safe, high-quality care in the years leading up to transition.
Lucid was engaged to assess the condition and capacity of existing infrastructure and deliver staged upgrades across key clinical areas — all within a live, highly sensitive healthcare environment. The challenge was clear: deliver significant improvements with minimal disruption to patients, families, and staff.
We began with a holistic review of the hospital’s essential services infrastructure — evaluating system resilience, identifying risks, and prioritising upgrades based on criticality and compliance. Our team collaborated closely with WCH staff, clinical stakeholders, and project partners to co-design upgrades that aligned with current standards and operational realities.
For the refurbishment of clinical spaces such as the Paediatric Emergency Department and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, we applied detailed staging strategies and rigorous infection control planning. Our approach ensured each phase was safe, efficient, and clinically viable — without interrupting service delivery.
Lucid provided comprehensive engineering services across multiple facets of this $65 million clinical sustainment program:
This project exemplifies Lucid’s purpose — creating a better world by supporting the systems that care for others. Our work at the Women’s & Children’s Hospital helped ensure vital paediatric and women’s health services remain safe, resilient, and responsive — even in times of transition.
It’s a clear demonstration of how thoughtful planning and staged delivery can protect care continuity, today and into the future.
