St John of God Health Care

Last updated

St John of God Health Care logo.png

St John of God Health Care is a Catholic provider of health care services in Australia, with 24 hospitals and facilities comprising more than 3,400 beds. The group operates in Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, and New Zealand. [1]

Contents

The group has evolved out of the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God, a Catholic order.

History

The congregation of the Sisters of St John of God was founded in 1871 in Wexford, Ireland. In 1895, Perth's Bishop Matthew Gibney sent a request to the Sisters for help to care for people suffering from typhoid fever during the 1890s gold rush. [2] The first hospital established under this arrangement was at Kalgoorlie in the late 1890s followed shortly by another in the Perth suburb of Subiaco. [3]

The Sisters often cared for patients with infectious diseases including typhoid and Hansen's disease (leprosy), which spread quickly in crowded mining camps. In 1937, after much lobbying by Sister Mary Gertrude, the order established a hospital for Aboriginal Australian patients with Hansen's disease, outside of Derby. [4]

The Sisters of St John of God went on to establish additional hospitals, pathology [5] and social outreach services in Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. [6]

In 2007, St John of God Health Care merged with the services previously operated by the Hospitaller Order of St John of God in Victoria, New South Wales and New Zealand. [7]

In 2015, St John of God Health Care expanded into public health care and took ownership of Hawkesbury District Health Service [8] and opened St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals. [9]

Pomegranate symbol

The symbol used by St John of God Health Care is a cross with a pomegranate. [10] The cross symbolises the Christian heritage of the organisation; the pomegranate, which is open to allow the seeds to scatter, symbolises self-giving and represents the organisation's values. [11]

The pomegranate symbol was chosen by the Sisters of St John of God to reflect the order's patron Saint, John of God, who ministered to the sick and poor in the Spanish town of Granada – ‘pomegranate’ in Spanish – in the early 16th century. [12]

Services

St John of God Health Care operates private and public hospitals, as well as disability, home nursing and social outreach services. [13]

Locations

St John of God operates 13 medical/surgical hospitals, one rehabilitation hospital, three psychiatric hospitals, three day hospitals and one oncology centre across Australia. It also operates home nursing services in Western Australia and Victoria, social outreach services in Western Australia, New South Wales and Victoria and supported residential facilities for people living with a disability in Victoria and New Zealand. [14] [15]

Australia

New South Wales

Victoria

Western Australia

New Zealand

Social outreach

The system operates a number of social outreach and community programs to support disadvantaged and vulnerable communities, including:

Home nursing

St John of God Health Choices, a division of St John of God Health Care, provides home nursing services in the Australian states of Victoria and Western Australia. [26] [27] Health Choices has bases in Ballarat, Bendigo, Berwick, Geelong, Melbourne, Subiaco and Warrnambool. [28] [29]

In 2009, Health Choices was created as a separate division to provide home nursing in sites where it had not existed before. [30]

In May 2010, St John of God Health Choices acquired Melbourne-based nursing provider M&M HealthPower. [31]

St John of God Health Care is a provider of community nursing services on behalf of the Department of Veterans Affairs. [32] The Health Choices service is free for veterans and people with private health cover. [33]

The St John of God Foundation

The fundraising arm of St John of God Health Care is the St John of God Foundation, established in 1994 by the Sisters of St John of God. In February 2010, the Foundation was integrated into St John of God Health Care. [34]

The Foundation raises funds to support medical research, life-changing medical equipment [35] and person-centred treatment in response to the needs of people and communities that are not met by traditional means or government funding. [36]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Berwick, Victoria</span> Suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Berwick is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 41 kilometres (25 mi) south-east of Melbourne's central business district, located within the City of Casey local government area. Berwick recorded a population of 50,298 at the 2021 census.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Catholic Church in Australia</span>

The Australian Catholic Church or Catholic Church in Australia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the spiritual and administrative leadership of the Holy See. From origins as a suppressed, mainly Irish minority in early colonial times, the church has grown to be the largest Christian denomination in Australia, with a culturally diverse membership of around 5,075,907 people, representing about 20% of the overall population of Australia according to the 2021 ABS Census data.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St John of God Geelong Hospital</span> Hospital in Victoria, Australia

St John of God Geelong Hospital is a 284-bed hospital providing inpatient and outpatient care in the Barwon and south-west regions of Victoria.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God</span> Roman Catholic religious order

The Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God, officially the Hospitaller Order of the Brothers of Saint John of God, are a Catholic religious order founded in 1572. In Italian they are also known commonly as the Fatebenefratelli, meaning "Do-Good Brothers", and elsewhere as the "Brothers of Mercy", the "Merciful Brothers" and the "John of God Brothers". The order carries out a wide range of health and social service activities in 389 centres and services in 46 countries.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St John of God Mt Lawley Hospital</span> Hospital in Western Australia, Australia

St John of God Mt Lawley Hospital is a 205-bed private hospital located on the banks of the Swan River in Mount Lawley, Western Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St John of God Murdoch Hospital</span> Hospital in Perth, Western Australia

St John of God Murdoch Hospital is a 511-bed private non-profit hospital located in the southern suburbs of Perth in Western Australia, immediately adjacent to the public Fiona Stanley Hospital campus. The distance between the entrances to the emergency departments of these two hospitals is approximately 390 m (427 yd).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St John of God Subiaco Hospital</span> Hospital in Western Australia, Australia

St John of God Subiaco Hospital is a private hospital in Subiaco, Western Australia, founded in 1898.

St John of God Burwood Hospital is an Australian psychiatric hospital in Sydney's Inner West region providing inpatient, day patient, and outpatient mental health care.

St John of God Hospital Richmond is a private psychiatric hospital which provides mental health care on an inpatient, day patient and outpatient basis. It is located in North Richmond, New South Wales.

St John of God Ballarat Hospital provides hospital care for people living in Ballarat and Western Victoria regions of Australia.

St John of God Bendigo Hospital is a 167-bed private hospital located in central Victoria.

'St John of God Berwick Hospitallocated in Melbourne, Victoria.

St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital is a 60-bed hospital providing specialist inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation care.

St John of God Bunbury Hospital is a 145-bed private hospital providing health care to the south west of Western Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St John of God Geraldton Hospital</span> Hospital in Geraldton, Western Australia

St John of God Hospital Geraldton is a 60-bed private hospital providing health care to Geraldton and the Mid West of Western Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals</span> Hospital in Perth, Western Australia

St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals is a health care facility in Midland, Western Australia which opened in November 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Catholic Church and health care</span> Relationship between the Catholic Church and health care

The Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of health care services in the world. It has around 18,000 clinics, 16,000 homes for the elderly and those with special needs, and 5,500 hospitals, with 65 percent of them located in developing countries. In 2010, the Church's Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers said that the Church manages 26% of the world's health care facilities. The Church's involvement in health care has ancient origins.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aged care in Australia</span>

Aged care in Australia, is the provision of services to meet the unique needs of older people in Australia. It includes both residential aged care as well as services provided in the home such as personal care, domestic assistance, home nursing, nutrition and meal preparation, respite services, continence management, mobility & dexterity assistance, transport, social support and the provision of equipment and aids.

St. John of God Hospital is an independent (private) psychiatric teaching hospital located in Stillorgan, Dublin, Ireland. The hospital is managed by the St. John of God Hospitaller Service Group, which is part of the international St. John of God Order that has more than 300 care centres in more than 50 countries. Hospitality, compassion, excellence, justice, and respect are the values of every centre of the St. John of God Order.

References

  1. "St John of God Annual Report 2009/10" (PDF) (Press release). St John of God Health Care Inc. October 2010.
  2. Sisters of St John of God, "Our Founding Story", Retrieved 2011-02-28. Archived 2004-12-16 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "The pioneering Sisters". www.sjog.org.au. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  4. Clement, Cathie, "Greene, Anne (1884-1965)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 6 February 2021
  5. "St John of God Health Care 2015/16 annual report". annualreport2016.sjog.org.au. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  6. St John of God Health Care, "History", Retrieved 2011-02-28
  7. St John of God Health Care, "Annual Report 2007-2008", pp.2, Retrieved 2011-02-14
  8. Rizk, Rita (10 July 2015). "Hawkesbury Hospital transfers ownership". Hawkesbury Gazette. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  9. "Hospital shot in arm for Midland". The West Australian. 5 October 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  10. Bronwyn Hughes (2009), "Shining Lights Ethereal Visions", Frankston City Council, pp.23, Retrieved 2011-02-25
  11. St John of God Health Care, "Annual Report 2007-2008", pp.2, Retrieved 2011-02-14
  12. Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne, "St John of God", Kairos: Volume 21, Issue 03, Retrieved 2011-02-27
  13. "St John of God Health Care Annual Report 2015-2016" (PDF). Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  14. "Facilities". sjog.org.au. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  15. St John of God Health Care, "Hospitals", Retrieved 2011-02-25
  16. Rizk, Rita (10 July 2015). "Hawkesbury Hospital transfers ownership". Hawkesbury Gazette. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  17. "St John of God Health Care Annual Report 2017-2018 page 45" (PDF). Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  18. "Hawkesbury Living Cancer Trust cancer treatment centre open: 8 year wait over". richmondclub.com.au. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  19. "St John of God Langmore Centre".
  20. Disability News (2008-08-12), "Imaging Better Together", Retrieved 2011-02-25
  21. St John of God Health Care, "Horizon Houses gear up for the Great Bike Ride", Press release, Retrieved 2011-02-25
  22. Department of Health, "Perinatal Emotional Health and Wellbeing Community Support and Resources", pp. 2. Retrieved 2011-02-23
  23. St John of God Health Care, "Asia-Pacific Neighbours", Retrieved 2011-02-28
  24. "YourCare – Social Support, Goods and Services – Supplier – Casa Venegas Community Accommodation". yourcare.org. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  25. "Community mental health". www.sjog.org.au. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  26. "SJOG expands home nursing to VIC". Business News. 25 May 2010. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  27. LiveinVictoria.vic.gov.au (2010), “Living in Regional Victoria”, pp.3, Retrieved 2011-02-24
  28. St John of God Health Choices, “Locations”. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
  29. St John of God Health Care (2009-11-26), “More health choices for Bendigo people”. Retrieved 2011-02-25.
  30. Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne, “St John of God's new clinical services director”, Kairos: Volume 21, Issue 17. Retrieved 2011-02-25.
  31. Sophie Knowles (2010-05-25), “SJOG expands home nursing to VIC”, WA Business News. Retrieved 2011-02-25.
  32. Department of Veterans’ Affairs, “Providers – East Melbourne Metro”. Retrieved 2011-02-25.
  33. Dimity Barber (2010-05-24), “Ready to treat people at home in Casey and Cardinia”, Berwick Leader. Retrieved 2011-02-25.
  34. Sisters of St John of God, "St John of God Foundation", Retrieved 2011-02-28
  35. "Revolutionary technology saves Emma's life". 3 May 2018.
  36. Sisters of St John of God, "St John of God Foundation", Retrieved 2011-02-28

Further reading