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The Queen Elizabeth Hospital - South Australia | Purchase Data in Excel USD 99
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28 Woodville Road
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Woodville South |
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South Australia |
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Australia |
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5011 |
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61 8 8222 6000 |
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61 8 8222 6010 |
| Website |
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| Total Beds |
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350 |
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About The Queen Elizabeth Hospital |
** TQEH **
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is a 350 bed public hospital which provides a comprehensive range of specialist and diagnostic treatment services to a population base of approximately 250,000 people, living primarily in the western suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.
** About Us **
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital provides health services by means of inpatient, outpatient and emergency services using the most modern available methods of assessment and treatment in medical, surgical, mental health, allied health and other techniques. Emphasis is placed on continuity of care before and after hospitalisation and care is coordinated by a multidisciplinary team.
In addition to the main hospital services, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital provides community based services which includes Mental Health Services and the Pregnancy Advisory Centre. Diabetic House is located in a nearby hospital owned home and a satellite renal dialysis centre is located at Wayville.
TQEH is one of South Australia's leading acute referral, teaching and research centres affiliated with the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia with professorial chairs in Surgery, Medicine, Renal, Gastoenterology, Anaesthesia and Cardiology.
The hospital is widely recognised for its achievements in such areas as renal medicine, cardiology, haematology/oncology, invitro fertilisation and surgery. It was the first teaching hospital in South Australia to be accredited by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards which indicates that the hospital complies with national standards of care.
** Mission Statement **
We provide a wide range of health services primarily for the north-western region of metropolitan Adelaide. We aim for our care to be: ethical, customer-focused, accessible, seamless and integrated with other agencies, benchmarked for best-practice, and focused on health outcomes.
We actively pursue, advance, disseminate and apply health science knowledge for the improvement of health status for all communities. This is achieved through striving for excellence and innovation in the teaching and research programs that we manage together with the Universities.
We aim to continue as a leading teaching health service in this country, with the full knowledge that it is the quality and capability of our staff that determines our reputation and vitality.
We place high value on excellence, innovation, efficiency and effectiveness.
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History of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital |
** History **
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital was built in 1954 as an urgent post-war project to cope with the needs of the rapidly developing western suburbs of Adelaide.
Although the original intention was to build a general public hospital, planning was extended to include a maternity wing. The hospital received its first maternity patient on 6 September 1954, and for the next four years accepted only maternity patients while the general hospital was being constructed. A ceremony to officially open the hospital was performed by Her Majesty, The Queen Mother on 5th March 1958, however it was not until 3 May 1959, following completion of the general hospital building that the hospital accepted its first general patient.
On 24th March, 1954 Her Majesty the Queen, by special proclamation, granted permission for the hospital to be named The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and it remains the only hospital in the British world to be named as such.
It was the second hospital in Australia to be honoured with the granting of a Coat of Arms from the College of Arms, London. On the Coat of Arms, it reads 'Petimus; Docemus; Curamus' - We Seek, We Teach, We Heal' which reflects the philosophy of the hospital.
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