The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (TQEH) is an acute care teaching hospital in the western suburbs of

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. It provides a range of health services, including inpatient, outpatient, surgical, emergency and mental health services.

History

Queen Elizabeth Hospital During Construction(GN08732)

The hospital opened in 1954 as a maternity hospital and expanded its services after this. At the request of the Government of South Australia, the hospital was named after Queen Elizabeth II, who had recently acceded to the Australian throne. A large portrait of the Queen, together with a letter authorising TQEH name and granting Arms to the hospital, decorates the principal foyer. Originally designed to service the western suburbs of Adelaide, TQEH is now the second-most utilised hospital in South Australia by patients from the central northern region of Adelaide.Health Service Profiles, Central Northern Adelaide Health Service, Government of South Australia, March 2004 TQEH was the first unit in Australia to perform kidney transplantation successfully, on 21 February 1964. The hospital houses the Australian and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry (ANZDATA), which collects national statistics on the treatment of those patients with end-stage

kidney failure Kidney failure, also known as end-stage kidney disease, is a medical condition in which the kidneys can no longer adequately filter waste products from the blood, functioning at less than 15% of normal levels. Kidney failure is classified as eit ...

. In 2002, Premier

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, who had campaigned in Opposition against plans to privatise the hospital, announced a massive ten-year redevelopment of TQEH. In 2005, Premier Rann and Health Minister Lea Stevens unveiled plans for TQEH's second-stage redevelopment. It included construction of a new three-level inpatient building for maternity, surgical, oncology and renal dialysis patients (containing 272 surgical and medical beds), and a 580-place car park building. In 2009 Premier Rann opened the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital Research Building, incorporating the Basil Hetzel Institute for Medical Research. The older Basil Hetzel building which was in use for many decades, was demolished. The nurses accommodation wing were also demolished.

Redevelopment

On 18 June 2017, the Weatherill State Government announced plans to build the third stage redevelopment of the hospital, worth over $270 million. The proposed redevelopment included plans to build a new emergency department, more car parking, new outpatient clinics, a new day surgery and operating theatre suite, a new medical imaging suite and a new brain and spinal injury rehabilitation centre, including a hydrotherapy pool, to accommodate patients from Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre. Construction of this building has already started. Construction of a new car park was also completed recently and this required the demolition of the Diabetes centre and a part of the older car park.

Teaching

TQEH is a teaching hospital for the

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's medical school and provides clinical attachments in a variety of specialties for undergraduate medical students, including Medicine, Surgery, Emergency Medicine, and

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. The Discipline of Medicine has broad-ranging functions in

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and

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teaching, research and clinical service and management. The Discipline of Surgery has a large academic surgical department and is a major centre for surgical research and postgraduate teaching in a wide range of fields.

Mental health services

TQEH provides

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services through community response teams, the QEH's Emergency Department, and a 40-bed purpose-built

inpatient A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, nurse, optometrist, dentist, veterinarian, or other health car ...

unit. The inpatient unit, the Cramond Clinic, was named after Professor

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, the foundation Chair in Psychiatry at the

. Cramond pioneered the delivery of mental health care to renal patients at TQEH in the 1960s.Cramond WA. Court JH. Higgins BA. Knight PR. Lawrence JR. Psychological screening of potential donors in a renal homotransplantation programme, v 113:1213-21;1967. In 2002–2003, TQEH community mental health teams provided services to 48,621 individuals which was the second largest number for services in the central northern health region. A new Short Stay Mental Health Unit with 8 beds, was completed in late 2017.

References

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