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The current hospital was commissioned in 1939 as a general hospital for the Australian Army and opened on 11 March 1941. When completed in 1942, the 2,000-bed Yaralla Military Hospital (113th Australian General Hospital [A.G.H.]) was the largest hospital in the Southern Hemisphere.
The ACT currently has no designated burns unit; patients with severe burns are usually transferred to Concord Repatriation General Hospital or The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in New South Wales. [2]
Sydney Hospital (oldest hospital in Australia, dating from 1788) / Sydney Eye Hospital [59] – Sydney; Tamworth Hospital – Tamworth; Temora Hospital – Temora; Tenterfield Hospital – Tenterfield; Thomas Walker Hospital – Concord West; Tibooburra Hospital – Tibooburra; Tingha Multi Purpose Service – Tingha; Tocumwal Hospital – Tocumwal
Opera Night at Rivendell is held annually and is a major fund-raising event. It is an open-air event and routinely draws two thousand people. The 2008 opera raised money that went towards the purchase of equipment for the hospital's intensive care unit. Money raised by the 2009 event was earmarked for the hospital's clinical school.
In November 2016, the refurbished gate house, Hyacinth Cottage hosted its first family of a burns patient to live in, while remaining close to Concord Hospital for follow-up care. Concord Hospital is part of the NSW Statewide Burns Injury Service, with many patients coming from regional, rural, remote and overseas locations for specialised care.
In June 2008, Rozelle Hospital services and patients were transferred to Concord Hospital. In the face of strong community opposition, by October 2008 the Government rejected the university's plans to accommodate up to 6,000 students on the Callan Park site and announced that 40 hectares (99 acres) of the site would be handed to Leichhardt Council.
Concord West (also known as West Concord) is a suburb in Sydney's inner-west, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Concord West is located 16 km west of the Sydney central business district , in the local government area of the City of Canada Bay .
Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital architectural plan, 1890-1893. The original Thomas Walker estate at Concord was an area of 390 acres. The establishment of the Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital was initiated by a £100,000 bequest in the will of Thomas Walker, who died in 1886.