Concord Repatriation General Hospital

Concord Repatriation General Hospital
Sydney Local Health District
CRGH Multi Building, viewed from the west across Brays Bay
Geography
Location	Concord, Sydney, NSW Special Postcode - 2139, Australia
Organisation
Care system	Public Medicare (AU)
Hospital type	Teaching
Affiliated university	The University of Sydney
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	500
Speciality	Burns, geriatrics, general medicine
History
Founded	1942
Links
Website	Official Website
Lists	Hospitals in Australia

Concord, Sydney, NSW

Concord Repatriation General Hospital (abbreviated CRGH), commonly referred to as simply Concord Hospital, is a major hospital in Sydney, Australia, located on Hospital Road in Concord. It is a teaching hospital of Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney, where it is referred to as Concord Clinical School, and a major facility in the Sydney Local Health District and the former Sydney South West Area Health Service. The NSW Statewide Severe Burn Injury Service and the Bernie Banton Centre, an asbestos diseases research institute, are located at CRGH.

Parts of the television series All Saints were filmed at CRGH.

Prior to the Second World War, the 16 hectare Yaralla Estate on which the hospital is built belonged to philanthropist Thomas Walker and subsequently his daughter Dame Eadith Walker. A small hospital had already been established on the site, known as the Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital. Following the death of Dame Eadith in 1937, the property was bequeathed to the Crown for development as a public hospital.

The current hospital was commissioned in 1939 as a general hospital for the Australian Army. When completed in 1942, the 2000 bed Yaralla Military Hospital (113 Australian General Hospital) was the largest hospital in the Southern Hemisphere. The main hospital building (currently known as the Multi Building) was one of the tallest buildings in Sydney when completed and its design won architects Stephenson & Turner the Sulman Award in 1946. Following the war, the hospital became a repatriation hospital for returned servicemen under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth government, with a change in name to Repatriation General Hospital, Concord (RGHC). In 1963 RGHC became a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney.