Ipswich Hospital, Queensland
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| Queensland Health | |
Ipswich Hospital
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| Geography | |
| Location | Chelmsford Avenue, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, Queensland, Australia |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Medicare |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | University of Queensland |
| Services | |
| Beds | 351 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1860 |
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| Website | [1] |
Coordinates: 27°37′9.36″S 152°45′31.83″E / 27.6192667°S 152.7588417°E
Ipswich Hospital is a major acute teaching hospital located 40 kilometres west of Brisbane in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. The hospital is part of the West Moreton Hospital and Health Service which provides services for over 250,000 people within the 9,521 kilometre West Moreton region. Ipswich Hospital has 351 beds and has specialities including anaesthetics, emergency, medicine, surgery, intensive and coronary care, orthopaedics, obstetrics, paediatrics, palliative care, rehabilitation, mental health and allied health services.
1860
On 3 March 1860, Ipswich Hospital opened to the public with the first patient admitted the next day.
1980
The Ipswich Triage Scale developed by Dr Gerry Fitzgerald for the Ipswich Emergency Department in the 1980s, became the basis of the Australasian National Triage Scale adopted by the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and the Australian Government. The system was adapted for use by emergency systems in the United Kingdom and Canada.
2006
The Government of Queensland announced a further expansion of Ipswich Hospital with an additional 84 beds at a cost of $122 million. A commitment has also been made to increase the paediatric services at Ipswich Hospital with an additional six beds and a dedicated paediatric emergency area at a cost of $6.7 million.
2008
Additional funding was allocated for the provision of a sixth operating theatre which would allow for an additional 500 procedures per year.
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