The 82-room The Remington Orange is on Forest Road as part of the Bloomfield Medical Centre complex.

Grant Gill, the group manager for The Remington, said they had already taken four bookings for conferences.

He said international medical conferences were looking to book the venue's facilities next year.

Mr Gill said about 50 staff would be employed to run the hotel. He said they had received 90 applications for the position of executive chef which had now been narrowed down to 38 people.

Mr Gill said the hotel would be open to the public as well as hospital patients before and after surgery.

"The first of December is the target for the soft opening," he said.

Meanwhile the Orange Private Hospital, which will take up two floors of the adjacent Bloomfield Medical Centre building, is now set to open in March.

Hospital director Dr Bill Mackie said the opening had been delayed by about six months by a variety of factors including the coronavirus pandemic.

Work is starting on fitting out the hospital.

It will open with five specialised operating theatres and 23 private single rooms, with the ability to extend to seven theatres.

Mesha Premlall has been appointed as the general manager and director of nursing.

She arrived in Australia in July and her introduction to the country was spent in a Sydney hotel in COVID-19 isolation. She said she was looking forward to the role.

"It's very exciting to develop a hospital from the ground up and establish a new team as well," she said.

Ms Premlall said 43 new clinical and non-clinical jobs would be created at the hospital.

Meanwhile design work on a child care centre in the south-west corner of the Bloomfield site is underway.

Hospital director and site co-owner Patrick O'Halloran said about 100 places would be available.

Mr O'Halloran said he expected the project would move quickly in 2021.

Orange mayor Reg Kidd toured the site on Thursday.

"This is just an incredible development for Orange," he said. "It is so open and airy. Every [hospital] room will have a view."