Calvary North Adelaide Hospital

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Calvary North Adelaide Hospital
Little Company of Mary Health Care
Calvary North Adelaide Hospital
Geography
Location Strangways Terrace, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
Organisation
Care system Private
Type General
Affiliated university None
Services
Emergency department No
Beds125
History
Opened1900
Links
Website http://www.calvarynorthadelaide.org.au
Lists Hospitals in Australia

Calvary Hospital North Adelaide is a private, not-for-profit Catholic hospital in North Adelaide.

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It was previously known as Calvary Hospital Adelaide, originally North Adelaide Hospital, and is one of Adelaide's oldest hospitals, having first been established around 1884, with the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary taking control in 1900.

History

In 1884 Mrs. Isabel Baker and Miss Bessie Baker had been responsible for bringing out a number of sisters of the Dominican Order, who had intended to follow the nursing profession at the deceased Governor Daly's residence on the corner of Ward and Hill Streets in North Adelaide, but owing to unforeseen circumstances, they were not able to do so. The Bakers took over the hospital and Miss Mundy was appointed matron. [1]

In 1900, Mother M. Xavier Lynch of the Nursing Sisters of the Little Company of Mary in Sydney arranged to send five sisters to commence a branch of her order at the hospital, [1] and the Sisters took over the running of the hospital in that year. [2]

Drs Edward Willis Way and James Alexander Greer Hamilton (1854–1925 [3] [4] ) were the principal surgeons at the North Adelaide Hospital. [1]

Description

Calvary North Adelaide Hospital is a fully operational hospital which, in 2023, had 125 beds. [5]

Much of the hospital is heritage listed, maintaining its turn of the century exterior and interior.

It features a large maternity wing, 8 operating theatres, day surgery suite, 1 medical ward including a day infusion centre, two surgical wards all supported by a Level II Intensive Care Unit.

The hospital also houses the extensive Mary Potter Hospice, a 15-bed hospice caring for palliative care patients, and a comprehensive Oncology Centre, a radiology department, and also multiple specialist suites within or adjacent to the hospital.

The grounds at the rear of the hospital also contains a turn of the century chapel.

It is located on Strangways Terrace in North Adelaide, only two kilometres from the Adelaide city centre.

It is owned by parent corporation Little Company of Mary Health Care (or "Calvary Health Care") which, in 2006, acquired Calvary Wakefield Hospital, Calvary Central Districts Hospital and Calvary Rehabilitation Hospital. Due to these acquisitions, the original hospital is now known as Calvary North Adelaide instead of Calvary Hospital Adelaide. [5]

Sources

  1. 1 2 3 Nursing in South Australia: First Hundred Years 1837-1937. Adelaide: South Australian Trained Nurses’ Centenary Committee. February 1938. p. 151.
  2. "North Adelaide Nursing Sisters". The Southern Cross . Vol. XIV, no. 693. South Australia. 10 October 1902. p. 11. Retrieved 26 September 2016 via National Library of Australia.
  3. AMA Historical Committee. "Past Presidents of South Australian Branch of the BMA and AMA (SA) 1879-" (PDF). Australian Medical Association . Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  4. "Dr. James Alexander Greer Hamilton". Virtual War Memorial. 8 October 1925. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  5. 1 2 "Little Company of Mary Health Care". Calvary North Adelaide Hospital. Retrieved 18 May 2016. [...] Calvary North Adelaide Hospital was established in 1900 by the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary [... the hospital is a] 153 bed facility located in North Adelaide [...] In May 2006 Little Company of Mary Health Care acquired Calvary Wakefield Hospital, Calvary Rehabilitation Hospital and Calvary Central Districts Hospital [...]

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