St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital

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St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital
St John of God Health Care
St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital
Geography
Location Frankston, victoria, Australia
Coordinates 38°09′09″S145°09′21″E / 38.152613°S 145.155769°E / -38.152613; 145.155769 Coordinates: 38°09′09″S145°09′21″E / 38.152613°S 145.155769°E / -38.152613; 145.155769
Organisation
Funding Private
Type Specialist
Religious affiliation Catholic Church
Services
Beds60
SpecialityRehabilitation
History
Construction started1976
Opened1977
Links
Lists Hospitals in Australia

St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital is a 60-bed hospital providing specialist inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation care. [1]

Contents

Located in Frankston, Victoria, the facility is a specialist rehabilitation hospital, providing neurological, orthopedic, cardiac and reconditioning programs.

The hospital was built in 1976 and opened the following year as Peninsula Private Hospital. It then relocated to a new site in 1999 and shortly after became the Nepean Rehabilitation Hospital. [2] The facility was acquired by St John of God Health Care in March 2004 and renamed St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital in 2012. [3]

The hospital made global news in 2009 for its work with Russell McPhee, a man who had been paralysed for 20 years. After undertaking a course of botulinum toxin injections or botox McPhee was reportedly able to walk again. [4]

St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital is a division of St John of God Health Care. [5]

Facilities

The hospital has 60 beds, hydrotherapy pool, cardiac, physiotherapy and occupational therapy gyms, a chapel and a pet visiting room. [6]

The facility underwent a $723,000 façade upgrade in 2010, including redevelopment of the cardiac/pulmonary gym. [7]

Services

Rehabilitation services offered by the hospital include:

Social outreach

In 2010, the hospital partnered with Open Family Australia to introduce a new drug and alcohol educational program for homeless youths in Frankston. [8]

In conjunction with other local businesses, St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital funds a full-time youth worker to help combat youth homelessness, crime and alcohol and drug-related abuse among troubled youth in the region. [9]

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  5. "Facilities". www.sjog.org.au. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  6. St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital, “Facilities”. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  7. St John of God Health Care (2011-01-05), “New look Cardiac/Pulmonary gym unveiled”. Press release. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
  8. St John of God Health Care (2010-10-07), “Reaching out to youth at risk”. Press release. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
  9. St John of God Health Care (2010-10-07), “Reaching out to youth at risk”. Press release. Retrieved 2011-03-08.