It is the regional referral hospital for outlying areas, and provides medical, surgical, orthopaedic, psychiatric and paediatric inpatient services in addition to emergency care.

The hospital also provides a range of allied health services including pharmacy, physiotherapy, social work, dietetics and speech pathology.

On 30 November 2007 the Greater Southern Area Health Service publicly released the concept plans of the new base hospital which will be located on the current hospital site and cost an estimated $275 million which will have a total of 460 beds.

[3] Stage one of the redevelopment was a 50 bed mental health unit with construction beginning in March 2012 and completed in October 2013.

It was completed in July 2023 after many delays due to the weather during construction and the scaffolding company going bankrupt.