Launceston General Hospital

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Launceston General Hospital
Launceston General Hospital
Geography
Location Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Coordinates 41°26′47″S147°08′30″E / 41.4464°S 147.1418°E / -41.4464; 147.1418
Organisation
Care system DHHS
Type Teaching, research
Affiliated university University of Tasmania Faculty of Health Sciences
Services
Emergency department Yes
Beds308 (+ 41 day care)
Helipads
Helipad ICAO: YXLU
NumberLengthSurface
ftm
1concrete
History
Opened1863;161 years ago (1863)
Links
Website Official Website
Lists Hospitals in Australia

The Launceston General Hospital (LGH) is one of the three main public hospitals in Tasmania, Australia. It is located in Launceston and serves the north of the state. Services provided include Cardiology, Renal, Gastroenterology, Haematology-Oncology, Rehabilitation, General Surgery, Ear/Nose/Throat surgery, Plastic surgery, Orthopaedics, Radiology, Paediatrics and an Intensive Care Unit, Psychiatry:Inpatient Mental Health Unit and Consultation-Liaison.

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It is a teaching hospital servicing the University of Tasmania.

History

The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria was celebrated throughout the empire in 1897. In Tasmania a public meeting was held to determine how the occasion might be marked. The second wife of the governor of Tasmania, Georgina Jane Connellan, Lady Gormanston suggested that a maternity hospital would be a great addition. At the time the only assistance to pregnant women came from untrained and unregulated midwives. It was agreed and a committee of women manage the new facility that opened on 195 St John Street in September 1897. The Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital moved in 1935 and it was not absorbed into the General Hospital until 1993 as the Queen Victoria Maternity Unit. [1]

Today

The statewide Cardiothoracic and major Paediatric surgery service is provided at the Royal Hobart Hospital.

The hospital supports medical research through the Clifford Craig Medical Research Trust.

The Intensive care unit provides medical staff who work with Ambulance Tasmania and the Royal Flying Doctor Service to provide critical care aeromedical retrieval services throughout Tasmania.

The hospital has been allocated $50 million in the 2022–2023 budget as part of a 10-year, $580 million redevelopment plan. [2]

In January 2023, it was revealed that the hospital helipad in Ockerby Gardens didn't meet the Civil Aviation Safety Authority requirements for medical transport after changes published in December 2018 and initially due to come into effect in December 2021. [3] Patients were flown to Launceston Airport instead before being transported by road in an ambulance ride which added 10 minutes. [2] Vice-president of the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Medical Association, Annette Barratt, expressed concern at the stress that the need to transport patients from the airport would place on Ambulance Tasmania. [3]

In February 2023, Tasmanian premier Jeremy Rockliff announced that a new emergency helipad would be built on the top of the existing car park on Cleveland Street. [4] It opened in October 2024. [5]

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References

  1. "Queen Victoria Hospital". www.utas.edu.au. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Hospital helipad unusable due to updated safety regulations, patients taken to airport 12km away". ABC News. 5 January 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  3. 1 2 Cooper-Douglas, Erin; Smith, Dan (6 January 2023). "Regulation changes that rendered hospital helipad unusable 'made public more than four years ago'". ABC News. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  4. McIntyre, Damian (9 February 2023). "New site picked for Launceston hospital helipad after existing one failed standards". ABC News. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  5. New $16 million helipad now operational atop Launceston General Hospital Pulse Tasmania 28 October 2024