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Flinders Medical Centre - South Australia | Purchase Data in Excel USD 99
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Flinders Drive
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Bedford Pk |
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South Australia |
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Australia |
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5042 |
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61 8 8204 5511 |
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61 8 8204 5450 |
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About Flinders Medical Centre |
Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) is a 580 bed public teaching hospital in Adelaide, South Australia. FMC is part of the Southern Adelaide Health Service (Southern Health) which includes Noarlunga Health Services, Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia, Southern Mental Health and Population & Primary Health Care.
FMC is situated in the Adelaide foothills on an 11.5 hectare campus approximately 12 kilometres from the city centre. It is only a few kilometres from our beautiful south coast beaches and close to famous wineries in the southern Adelaide region.
Since opening in 1976, FMC has earned an international reputation as one of Australia’s finest public teaching hospitals and as a centre for research excellence.
The hospital is co-located with the Flinders University School of Medicine and the 130 bed Flinders Private Hospital. FMC has close links with other health providers in southern Adelaide, including Repatriation General Hospital and the Southern Division of General Practice.
FMC is unique in South Australia (SA) in providing an extensive range of services for patients of all ages. It is one of two major trauma centres in SA. An around-the-clock emergency retrieval service brings patients to FMC by road or helicopter.
FMC is also the base for the South Australian Eye Bank and the South Australian and Northern Territory Liver Transplant Unit.
More than 3,500 skilled FMC staff provide services to people across Australia, from Darwin in the Northern Territory to Mount Gambier in South Australia's south east.
Staff at FMC are supported by more than 550 volunteers who make up the largest volunteer service in a public hospital in SA. |
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History of Flinders Medical Centre |
** History of Flinders Medical Centre **
** Origins **
Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) has its origins in the early 1960’s when the South Australian Government, under then Premier Sir Thomas Playford, recognised the need for a new hospital. This was in response to the increasing population of the southern and south-western suburbs of Adelaide and mounting community pressure for a university and hospital in the region.
** Flinders University opens **
In 1966, Flinders University opened, and shortly after plans to expand the university campus to include a new medical school and hospital were approved by Cabinet.
** FMC building commences **
Building excavations commenced in 1972, on what was to become Flinders Medical Centre. Thus began the most ambitious and unique medical school and hospital development in Australasia at that time.
** Joint medical school and public hospital **
Flinders Medical Centre was designed as the first fully integrated public teaching hospital and medical school in Australia. It was also the first medical school to eliminate the split between clinical and preclinical training.
** FMC opens **
Flinders Medical Centre admitted its first patient in April 1976. The hospital stands against a background of university buildings and sweeping hills in the suburb known as Bedford Park, some 12 kilometres south of the centre of Adelaide.
** Integrated service **
In South Australia, FMC was the first hospital to provide a fully integrated service for people of all ages – ie obstetrics, paediatrics, and psychiatry as well as general medical and surgical services. Before this, these services had to be accessed in separate hospitals.
** Early history **
The campus is built on land of the Kaurna Aboriginal people, which has been owned by the State or Federal Government since 1915. The original owners are recognised in a plaque in the courtyard unveiled by Kaurna elders in the presence of Dame Roma Mitchell at our 20th Anniversary celebrations in 1995.
** Our name **
Both Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University take their name from British navigator Matthew Flinders, who explored and surveyed the South Australian coastline in 1802.
** Bedford Park **
The area of Bedford Park was first developed in the 19th century as a pastoral property. From 1918 it became a tuberculosis sanatorium and mixed farm. The sanatorium was demolished in the early 1960’s making way for the development of Flinders University and the Flinders Medical Centre.
In 2001, Flinders Medical Centre celebrated its 25th Anniversary. |
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