The Alfred Hospital, (also known as The Alfred or Alfred Hospital) is a leading tertiary hospital in

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, Victoria. It is the second oldest hospital in Victoria after Melbourne Hospital which is still operating on its original site. The hospital is one of two major adult trauma centres in Victoria and houses the largest

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. In 2021 it was ranked as one of the world's best hospitals. The Alfred Hospital is a major

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affiliated with

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. Alfred Health manages The Alfred Hospital along with Caulfield Hospital and Sandringham Hospital.

History

The "Hospital by the Yarra", founded in 1871, was named after Prince Alfred after he was shot in an unsuccessful assassination attempt while on a

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to Australia. The

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is also named after the prince. In 1957, The Alfred was the first hospital in Australia to place a patient on

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to treat complex cardiac lesions.

Services

The Alfred Hospital, administered by the Metropolitan Health Servic
Alfred Health
offers medical services including

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, asthma management,

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, allergy care,

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, and

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. It houses an

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and also provides facilities for adult cystic fibrosis services and an adult

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centre. The Alfred Hospital hosts both adult

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and

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services as well as a pediatric lung transplantation service. The Alfred also collaborates with the Alfred Research Alliance, a consortium of medical research institutions located onsite.

Specialty units

Some of the specialty units within The Alfred Hospital include: *Adult

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Unit *Allergy, Asthma and

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– unique in Australia *Helen Macpherson Smith Burns Unit – unique in Victoria *

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Unit – includes state

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service *

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Unit – second largest in the world *

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Unit accommodating 60 acute inpatients, including two APICSS (Alfred Psychiatry Intensive Care Statewide Service) beds *State Major Trauma Service – including road trauma centre *The Heart Centre –

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Centre for Research and Training *Largest Mechanical Circulatory Support Service in Australasia (Ventricular Assist Devices) *Largest Adult ECMO centre in Australia *Largest

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unit in the Southern hemisphere *William Buckland Radiotherapy Centre – Specialists in Brachytherapy, Stereotactic Radiosurgery and General External Beam Therapy. *Interventional Radiology - Australia's largest uterine fibroid embolisation (UFE) program.

Associated facilities

* Deakin University's Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research

References

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History

Services

Specialty units

Associated facilities

See also

Further reading

References