Ballarat Base Hospital

Ballarat Base Hospital

The Ballarat Base Hospital is a hospital located in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. It is a public hospital operated by Ballarat Health Services. Ballarat Health Services employs approximately 3000 staff at the Base Hospital, the nearby Queen Elizabeth Centre, and 13 off-site facilities in the surrounding area.

History

During the gold rush of the 1850s the Government Camp provided medical support but mainly for officers and not for miners and the general community. Those wounded at the Eureka Stockade in 1854 received varying attention and the need for a hospital became apparent. A year later building of a hospital commenced.

In 1997, the Ballarat Base Hospital merged with the Queen Elizabeth Centre and the Grampians Psychiatric Service to form Ballarat Health Services.

In 2005 Ballarat Health Services was awarded the Premier's Award for the Outstanding Rural and Regional Health Service in Victoria.

In 2004/05 Ballarat Health Services treated a total of 25,606 acute patients (an increase of 1,308 from the previous year) representing 66,215 acute bed days. The hospital delivered 975 babies in the 2004/05 year and 35,835 patients were seen in the Emergency Department.

pecialties

*Cardiology
*Emergency medicine
*Gastroenterology
*Infectious disease medicine
*Lower gastrointestinal surgery
*Nephrology
*Otorhinolaryngology
*Upper gastrointestinal surgery
*Vascular surgery

ee also

*List of hospitals in Australia

Please contact Regina Philangy in the Cardiology department

External references


* [http://www.bhs.org.au/index.php Ballarat Health Services website]

Books

*Hyslop, Anthea, "Sovereign Remedies: A History of Ballarat Base Hospital, 1850s-1980s", Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1989
*Menadue, H. W., "First Fifty Years: Ballarat Base Hospital Trained Nurses' League, 1929-1978", Ballarat Base Hospital Trained Nurses' League, Ballarat, 1978
*Menadue, H. W. (ed.), "Register of the Nurse Training School 1888-1988, Ballarat Base Hospital", Ballarat Base Hospital Trained Nurses' League, Ballarat, 1993


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