NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard announced on Friday that the new purpose-built ambulance station will be built at 30 Ferodale Road, on the corner of Abundance Road, with construction due to be complete in 2022.

He said it was the "optimal location to service the community".

"The NSW Government is committed to investing in rural and regional health infrastructure to support better health outcomes for local communities," Mr Hazzard said.

"Our paramedics need the best possible workplace to provide emergency medical care, and this new station will make a real difference to their working environment."

The location announcement comes five months after it was revealed that that the rapidly growing town with a population of about 9500 people would become home to an ambulance station.

The minister said NSW Ambulance and Health Infrastructure worked to identify the new location for the station using "best practice demand modelling software" which maps Triple Zero calls, and determined Ferodale Road as the most suitable site "now and into the future".

Port Stephens MP Kate Washington said that she was pleased the NSW Government had listened to "community's pleas for an ambulance station in Medowie" but urged that it needed to be resourced appropriately.

"To achieve faster response times, the government must ensure our area receives additional ambulances and paramedics along with the new building," she said.

"Our local paramedics are already overstretched trying to meet the needs of our community, and they desperately need more funded positions to improve local response times.

"By next year, Medowie will have a six-bay ambulance station, four primary schools, two supermarkets, a 24-hour McDonalds, but still no public high school.

"The Liberal government's secret plan to squeeze more and more Medowie students into the high schools in Raymond Terrace is not good enough.

"The Minister for Education should follow the Minister for Health's lead and commit to the infrastructure Medowie desperately needs - a public high school."

Parliamentary Secretary for the Hunter Taylor Martin said the announcement provided the community with its first look at the station design.

"It's exciting to see the design for the new ambulance station, which will be a contemporary facility, tailored to the needs of the Medowie community to enable paramedics to continue delivering high-quality emergency healthcare," Mr Martin said.

"The purpose-built station will feature internal parking for up to six emergency ambulance vehicles, relief accommodation for paramedics, administration and office areas, logistics and storage areas, an internal wash bay and staff parking."

"It will provide a high quality base for our paramedics and will be equipped to meet current and future demand for emergency care in our region.

"Next steps include further due diligence, design development and seeking planning approval for the new station."

The new station is part of the NSW Government's $100 million Rural Ambulance Infrastructure Reconfiguration program.

The RAIR program is the largest investment in regional NSW Ambulance's 126-year history.

Twenty-four new or upgraded ambulance stations have already delivered or are under construction as part of the $132 million Stage One phase.

Another $100 million worth of ambulance assets are being delivered under Stage Two of the program, which is what the Medowie station is part of.

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