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The Women's was the first specialist teaching hospital in the Antipodes, and the first hospital in Australia to train nurses and midwives and the first in Australia to hold postgraduate classes for nurses. [3] Drs Ellen Balaam, Annie Lister Bennett and Gweneth Wisewould, some babies and a nurse at the Women’s Hospital in 1915 [4]
Frances Perry was a philanthropist and community worker committed to the work of the church, morality [1] and a focus on women's welfare. [2] She was the chair of the committee that founded the Melbourne Lying-in (Royal Women's) Hospital, [3] and was its first president from 1856 to 1874. [2]
Since most hospitals were reluctant to hire female doctors, Sexton joined a group of women, led by Constance Stone, who co-founded the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women and Children in 1896. When the hospital opened in 1899, Sexton was appointed the head of surgery, a position she held until 1908. In 1899, she also joined the staff of the Royal ...
Frances Perry House, co-located with the Royal Women's Hospital in the Melbourne suburb of Parkville, is a 69-bed private hospital for women run by Ramsay Healthcare.. The hospital specialises in obstetrics, gynaecology, neonatology, breast surgery, day surgery, reconstructive surgery and plastic surgery.
Hospital blocks 1, 2, and 3, built successively in the early 1930s, were demolished and their site on Bowen Bridge Road now occupied by the Education Centre and Centre for Clinical Research. The first coronary care unit was established in Ward 1A in 1971. The Women’s Hospital was demolished and now occupied by the James Mayne Building.
Prince William was the first future monarch to be born in a hospital when his mother opted for the Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s Hospital in 1982, following the footsteps of her sister-in-law ...
The Freemasons Hospital was established in 1937, as an initiative of Victoria's Freemasons in the 1930s to accommodate middle-class fee paying patients. The original five-level reinforced concrete building was designed by architects, Stephenson and Meldrum (later Stephenson and Turner ), in a Functionalist Modern style with its bold horizontal ...
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