John Hunter Hospital

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Region = New Lambton Heights
State = New South Wales
Country = Australia
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HealthCare = Medicare
Type = Teaching
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Emergency = Yes
Affiliation = University of Newcastle.
Beds = 650
Founded = 1991
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Website = http://www.hnehealth.nsw.gov.au/services_and_facilities/john_hunter_hospital
Wiki-Links = |The John Hunter Hospital (sometimes known as the JHH or more colloquially the John) is the principal referral centre and a community hospital for Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and Northern New South Wales. It is the main teaching hospital of the University of Newcastle. The hospital contains the only trauma centre in New South Wales outside of the Sydney Metropolitan Area, and has the busiest emergency department in the state.Fact|date=April 2007

John Hunter is the region's largest hospital with around 650 beds. Patients from the Hunter and beyond are referred to John Hunter for treatment in a range of specialities, including Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Cardiology and Cardiac surgery, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Neonatal Intensive Care, Nephrology, Neurology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Oral and Maxillofacial surgery, Respiratory Medicine, and Trauma.

Origin of Name

A unique aspect of the John Hunter Hospital is the reasoning behind its name. Rather than being named after one person, the JHH is named in honour of three men, all of whom were called John Hunter. They were:
* John Hunter, a former governor of New South Wales and the namesake of the whole Hunter region
* John Hunter, the famed 18th century surgeon and pioneer of anatomical pathology, and
* John Irvine Hunter, an Australian anatomist who died in 1924 at the age of 26, having already been appointed the youngest anatomy professor at the University of Sydney