Parking at the Hospital is via an automatic parking system.

If you are just dropping off a patient to be admitted or to attend an appointment, please use one of the marked set down areas. These are located at the main hospital Entry A, the Family Care entrance – Entry B , the Medical and Therapeutic entrance – Entry C and Mental Health and Well-being – Entry D. Similarly, if you are collecting someone following their Hospital stay you may use a set down only area.

If you need to enter the car park through the boom gates, departure will be free of charge provided it is within 30 minutes. There is no need to validate your ticket inside the building before exit in this case. Emergency drop off is available for up to 1 hr directly outside Emergency department.

Visitor Concession Rates

Concession rates are available for eligible visitors and patients when parking in a designated gated car park. Appropriate photo identification must be produced on each occasion to obtain a concession rate.

Eligible visitors are required to present their parking ticket with a valid concession card at the Secure Parking office located in the Main Entrance of the hospital.

Alternatively, for the convenience of all car park users on Hospital grounds, all Pay Station Machines on campus are able to validate tickets by pressing the intercom button and speaking to a Parking Customer Representative. 

Eligible concession cards:

1. Holders of a RTA issued Disabled Parking Permit
2. Holders of a Blue Pension Card
3. Holders of a Gold Veterans Affairs Card
4. Holders of a Maroon and Yellow Health Care card
5. Centrelink beneficiaries – those who hold a Pensioner Concession Card or a Health Care Card
6. Ongoing cancer treatment patients
7. Patients and carers attending more frequently than twice weekly
8. Cardiac Rehabilitation education and exercise class attendees
9. Daily dressing outpatients
10. Health Promotion Education class attendees.

Appropriate identification must be produced on each occasion to obtain a concession rate.

How the System Works

Main Hospital Carpark:

• Enter the Hospital at the traffic lights from the Pacific Highway.
• Enter via a boom-gate past the main hospital entrance. Take a ticket.
• PLEASE TAKE YOUR TICKET WITH YOU – DO NOT LEAVE YOUR TICKET IN YOUR CAR.
• If you are parked longer than 30 minutes, before returning to your car, you need to pay for parking at one of the pay stations. They accept credit card, coins and notes, and will dispense change.  Refer to the below map for pay station locations.
• Weekly parking passes can be purchased from the Care Park office in the main foyer during business hours.
• Payment can also be made by credit card ONLY at an exit boom gate.
• To leave the car park, insert your ticket into the slot at an exit boom gate station. If you have paid, the boom gate will rise. If paying by credit card here, follow the instructions on the machine.

Mid North Coast Cancer Institute Parking:

You may wish to access the car park at the southern end of the hospital if you attending the Mid North Coast Cancer Institute or Breast Screen. Do this via the new hospital access road off Phil Hawthorn Drive. Enter via the southern boom gate. You will need to take a ticket on entry.

The Mid North Coast Cancer Institute has dedicated patient parking and a patient drop off area at the entrance to the building.

For further details on our location and access, please find a printable version of our campus visitor map click here .

If you have any parking related questions or issues, please contact 02 6656 5432 or email MNCLHD-CHHC-CarPark@health.nsw.gov.au .

Shearwater Lodge is a community project of the Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour. Shearwater Lodge provides accommodation for patients and carers who are receiving treatment in the Coffs Harbour area. For accommodation and booking information click here.