{"id":398907,"date":"2026-04-15T01:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398907\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T01:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:31:18","slug":"another-private-hospital-to-close-as-doctors-warn-of-mental-health-bed-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/398907\/","title":{"rendered":"Another private hospital to close as doctors warn of mental health bed crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement of another private hospital closure has rung more alarm bells for the overburdened public mental health system.<\/p>\n<p>Aurora Healthcare said last month that it would close the 34-bed Mackay Private Hospital on 16 June because of \u201crising operational and maintenance costs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Most of its beds are for rehabilitation, but eight are for mental health patients. <\/p>\n<p>AusDoc understands that the eight beds are not fully occupied. But the hospital is the sole provider of subacute private mental health beds in the Mackay region in North Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The announcement of another private hospital closure has rung more alarm bells for the overburdened public mental health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,3175,3267,61,60,410,411,43,1703,47186],"class_list":{"0":"post-398907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-hospital","10":"tag-hospitals","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-mental-health","14":"tag-mentalhealth","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-psychiatry","17":"tag-qld"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}