Wesley Hospital (Brisbane)

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Wesley Hospital
Uniting Care Health
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Wesley Hospital (Brisbane)
Geography
Location Auchenflower, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Services
Beds530+
History
Opened1896 (old campus, southbank), moved March 1977 (Auchenflower)
Links
Website wesley.com.au
Lists Hospitals in Australia

The Wesley Hospital is a hospital located in the suburb of Auchenflower in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. [1]

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The hospital currently has over 530 beds and offers a large range of clinical services. [2] It is owned and operated by UnitingCare Health. The hospital recently underwent works and an extension.

The hospital is named after Reverend John Wesley, an important clergyman of the Church of England in the 18th century.

The hospital is well known for its 'Kim Walters Choices Program' which supports men, women and their families who have been diagnosed with breast or gynecological cancer. [3] This program is free.

Transport

The Wesley Hospital is accessible by bus routes which travel along Coronation Drive, and also from Auchenflower Rail Station which is situated behind the hospital.

History

The Wesley Hospital has its roots in St Helen's Hospital (Brisbane) at South Brisbane, which sat on the banks of the Brisbane River [4] in the current location of the State Library of Queensland. St Helen's Hospital was opened in 1896; its development was led by prominent local surgeon Dr E Sandford Jackson.

In the late 1960s, it became clear St Helen's Hospital could not expand on its existing site. This led to the purchase of the Moorlands Estate at Auchenflower in 1971. The State Government would not allow the hospital to operate on two sites under the same name, so the new site became Wesley Hospital. Construction commenced in 1975 and the Wesley Hospital received its first patients by ambulance convoy from St Helen's on 1 March 1977. [5]

The current radiology department and emergency room opened in 1995, Kirkup Wing in 1991, intensive care unit in 2000, and dialysis unit in 2001. Other modern developments include the Evan Thompson Building, named after former surgeon and hospital medical advisory committee chairman Sir Evan Thompson, and the Moorlands Wing.

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References

  1. ↑ "The Wesley Hospital". Wesley Hospital. Archived from the original on 4 March 2009. Retrieved 7 February 2009.
  2. ↑ UnitingCare Clinical Services, http://www.uchealth.com.au/wesley/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=91 Archived 6 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ The Wesley Hospital Kim Walters Choices Program, http://www.uchealth.com.au/choices Archived 25 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Love, W.R.F. (1975). "St Helen's Hospital has played a living role" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland. 9 (6): 88 – via TextQueensland.
  5. ↑ Our History Archived 17 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine , Wesley Hospital, retrieved 14 March 2011.

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