Royal Adelaide Hospital

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Royal Adelaide Hospital
Location
Place	Adelaide, South Australia, (AU)
Organisation
Care System	Public Medicare (AU)
Hospital Type	Teaching
Affiliated University	University of Adelaide
Services
Emergency Dept.	Yes
Beds	848
Speciality	Burns, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Oral and maxillofacial surgery, Thoracic medicine and Cardiovascular surgery
History
Founded	1841
Links
Website	Homepage
See also	Hospitals in Australia

The Royal Adelaide Hospital is Adelaide's largest hospital with over 700 beds. Founded in 1840, the Royal Adelaide provides tertiary health care services for South Australia and provides secondary care clinical services to residents of Adelaide's inner city.

The hospital is situated on the corner of North Terrace and Frome Road. It neighbours the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, the Adelaide Zoo and both the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia. The land which it covers is home to the Adelaide Medical School, Adelaide Dental Hospital, The Hanson Institute and the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Sciences.

In June 2007, plans were unveiled by the State Government to build a new central hospital for Adelaide to replace the Royal Adelaide Hospital. The Marjorie Jackson Nelson Hospital, to be completed in 2016, will be built on the railyards at the intersection of North Terrace and West Terrace in Adelaide. The State Government plans that the Royal Adelaide will close when the new hospital is completed and some of the land currently occupied by the hospital will be incorporated as part of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.^[1]

Contents 1 Blocks 1.1 North Wing 1.2 East Wing 1.3 Theatre Block 1.4 Emergency Block 1.5 Outpatients 1.6 Hone Wing 1.7 McEwin Building 2 See also 3 Notes 4 External links

[edit] Blocks

Since the Hospital is so large it is split up into many different blocks and Building names.

[edit] North Wing

The North Wing is home to wards Q3-R3-S3 (Orthapedics), Q5 (ENT and Eyes), Q6 (Colorectal Surgery), Q7-R6 (Gastric and Upper GI Surgery), Q8--R7-R8-S7-S8 (Medical), R4A (Spinal), R5 (NeuroSurgery), S6 (Urology/Gynaecology), S2 (Thoracic Medicine) and S5 (Plastics). Radiology can also be found in the North Wing.

[edit] East Wing

The East wing has 10 Wards for Psychiatry, Stroke, Oncology, Cardiology and Vascular Surgery

[edit] Theatre Block

All of the 23 Operating Theatres are in this block. All of the treatment centres for the many Specialties covered can also be found in this block.

[edit] Emergency Block

The Emergency Department and Recovery Rooms are found in this block. This is also the block that has access to the Helipad and Medi-Vac team. The 3 PTL (Patient Transport Lifts) are also in this block which go from Ground Floor, up to the Helipad. The Emergency department has recently undergone a total refurbishment and is now a state of the art Emergency facility.

[edit] Outpatients

All Specialist offices are found in the Outpatient blocks from level 3-9.

[edit] Hone Wing

The Hone Wing is home to the Department of Radiation Oncology and holds 5 bunkers containing Varian Linear Accelerators.

[edit] McEwin Building

The McEwin Building is situated to the east of the hospital. It is home to the Sleep Disorders Laboratory, containing four beds (Level 6), and Transfusion (Level 5).

[edit] See also

• List of hospitals in Australia

[edit] Notes

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[edit] External links

Royal Adelaide Hospital Homepage