St John of God Hospital, Murdoch
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St John of God Hospital Murdoch is a division of St John of God Health Care
St John of God Health Care
St John of God Health Care is Australia's third largest private hospital operator, with 13 hospitals and facilities in the states of Western Australia, New South Wales and Victoria, as well as in New Zealand....

, one of the largest providers of health care services in Australia.

Established in 1994, the hospital services the southern suburbs of Perth in Western Australia. It provides comprehensive hospital services for more than 40,000 patients each year, with the emergency department
Emergency department
An emergency department , also known as accident & emergency , emergency room , emergency ward , or casualty department is a medical treatment facility specialising in acute care of patients who present without prior appointment, either by their own means or by ambulance...

 treating around 25,000 patients a year.

Facilities

St John of God Hospital Murdoch houses 357 inpatient beds, a 24-hour emergency department, operating suite, endoscopy
Endoscopy
Endoscopy means looking inside and typically refers to looking inside the body for medical reasons using an endoscope , an instrument used to examine the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the body. Unlike most other medical imaging devices, endoscopes are inserted directly into the organ...

 suite, angiography suite, birth suite, a 35-bed maternity ward, hydrotherapy pool, medical library and education centre.

Services

Services provided by St John of God Hospital Murdoch include the following:
  • day procedures
  • emergency medicine
  • intensive coronary care
  • maternity
  • medical clinic
  • oncology
  • orthopaedics
  • paediatrics
  • palliative care
  • pathology
  • SKG radiology
  • surgicentre

Education

St John of God Hospital Murdoch has affiliations with a number of teaching institutions, including The University of Western Australia, Challenger Institute of Technology
Challenger Institute of Technology
Challenger Institute of Technology is a Technical and Further Education institution based in Fremantle, Western Australia.Over 140 careers are offered through a wide range of courses catering to different industry training areas...

, Edith Cowan University
Edith Cowan University
Edith Cowan University is located in Perth, Western Australia. It was named after the first woman to be elected to an Australian Parliament, Edith Cowan, and is the only Australian university named after a woman....

 and the University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...

.

Murdoch Community Hospice

Located on the grounds of St John of God Hospital Murdoch, the purpose-built, 20-bed Murdoch Community Hospice provides specialist palliative care to patients in Perth’s southern suburbs. Funding for the $5m Murdoch Community Hospice was raised by the St John of God Foundation.

Expansion, 2012-2015

In April 2011, a $234 million expansion and redevelopment project was announced. This will include a new hospital wing, an extra 120 beds, eight additional operating theatres, and a new cancer centre. The expansion will provide services for an extra 25,000 patients each year. The redevelopment is planned to start in February 2012, with new services becoming available from 2013 to 2015.

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