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The old Townsville General Hospital psychiatric service was the focus of intense scrutiny in the 1980s after it was revealed 65 people had died in the psychiatric ward. [27] The deaths and subsequent inquest gave rise to the Burden Inquiry, Report of the National Inquiry into the Human Rights of People with Mental Illness 1990.
A small private hospital in Stagpole Street, known as 'The Lister', was purchased and the Townsville Sisters of Mercy moved formally into Health Care ministry. The hospital was renamed the 'Mater Misericordiae' (Mother of Mercy), the title given to all hospitals operated by the Sisters of Mercy. When this hospital was found to be inadequate to ...
The Health Campus opened on 21 June 2006 at the former Kirwan Hospital for Women. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Kirwan Health Campus cost $20 million to redevelop, and is staffed by 230 health care professionals that can provide treatment and medical services to more than 150 families each day.
Mater Women's and Children's Hospital in Hyde Park, Townsville, Queensland was established in 2007 when the Sisters of Mercy (Mater Health Services North Queensland) bought the competing private obstetric hospital, the Wesley/Park Haven Hospital. [1] [2]
The 1st Health Battalion (1 HB) is a unit of the 2nd Health Brigade.It is headquartered at the Robertson Army Barracks in Darwin.Formally having sub-units located in Darwin, Townsville and Brisbane, the then 1st Close Health Battalion was raised as 1 HB and fell under the command of the reestablished 2nd Health Brigade in 2022; with the existing Sub-Units being absorbed into 4th Health ...
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Smallwood trained in general nursing, midwifery and psychiatric nursing at the Townsville Hospital. [2] She was the first Indigenous Australian to be awarded a Masters of Science in public health from James Cook University. [1] In 2016, she was appointed Professor of Nursing and Midwifery at Central Queensland University. [3]
AITHM’s predecessor, The Australian Institute for Tropical Medicine, was established in Townsville in 1913 and was Australia's first medical research institute. [4] Before it was subsumed into the then Commonwealth Department of Health in 1921, [ 5 ] the Institute made a significant contribution to understandings about how Europeans could ...