Robina Hospital Crisis Stabilisation Unit

Queensland has its first Crisis Stabilisation Unit at Robina Hospital.

Gold Coast Health is one of the first health services in Australia to introduce this new model of care. The main reason for the new unit was to divert patients in acute mental health crises away from emergency departments and into a comfortable, therapeutic, and home-like environment to ease their crisis.

Designed by clinicians and people with lived experience, the unit provides a less clinical, more home-like, and therapeutic environment for patients and their families. It allows clinicians to work hand-in-hand with lived experience and peer workers to ensure that people experiencing crisis receive the best quality care. An important expansion of mental health support services on the Gold Coast, the Crisis Stabilisation Unit offers 12 chairs and access to eight short-stay beds.