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The public Queensland Children's Hospital (QCH), on Stanley Street in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is the primary facility of Children's Health Queensland. QCH has an emergency department and intensive care unit, and it offers specialist general medical and surgical services.
It has a catchment population of 1.6 million people with 1038 beds and 5,800 full-time equivalent staff. [1] In 2005, the hospital received Magnet Recognition. The hospital is located on Ipswich Road in Woolloongabba, an inner-city suburb of Brisbane.
Queensland Health is the public health system in Queensland, Australia, comprising sixteen statutory Hospital and Health Services (HHS'), the Department of Health and Queensland Ambulance Service. Each HHS provides health services to its local area, with Children's Health Queensland supporting state-wide paediatric specialist services.
The hospital was created by the merging of the Royal Brisbane Hospital and the Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital in 2003. [6] The women's hospital was demolished first, in 1998, to make way for the new building, after which the acute hospital was demolished. In the same year the hospital precinct was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register. [7]
The Ladies Committee who established and managed the hospital from its inception in 1864 to its takeover by the Brisbane and South Coast Hospitals Board in 1924, worked toward achieving major advances in the field of obstetrics in Queensland, and the Lady Bowen Hospital was the precursor of the 1938 Brisbane Women's Hospital.
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In 1954, Mater established Queensland's first Neurological Department. In 1960, the Mater Mothers' Hospital was officially opened, accommodating for 140 mothers. In 1967 blood transfusions were performed on a baby in utero for the first time in Queensland. In 1987 Mater Children's Hospital established Queensland's first paediatric sleep unit.
Logan Hospital has grown from a 48-bed community hospital in 1990, and 195-bed hospital in 1995, to a 448-bed hospital today, mirroring the rapid growth in population in the Logan region. [3] It was opened by then Premier of Queensland Wayne Goss. The phase 1 opening in 1990 included an emergency department, general medical wards and a dialysis ...