Logan Hospital

Logan Hospital
The recently upgraded section includes a new entrance to the Emergency Department
Geography
Location	corner of Armstrong Road and Loganlea Road, Meadowbrook, Logan City, Queensland, Australia
History
Founded	1990
Links
Website	metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/logan-hospital
Lists	Hospitals in Australia

Logan Hospital is located at corner Armstrong and Loganlea Roads in Meadowbrook, Queensland, Australia. The hospital provides acute medical, surgical, rehabilitation, maternity and other specialty services for children and adults.

The hospital contains the Health Services library. Logan Hospital services intake patients who generally younger population and have culturally or linguistically diverse backgrounds.

A large expansion project is underway. Logan Hospital has grown from a 48 bed hospital in 1990 to approximately 330 beds currently. Its services include Medical & Surgical Services: Obstetrics; Gynaecology; Orthopaedics; Ear Nose & Throat; Paediatrics; Respiratory Medicine; Neurology; Endocrinology; Cardiology; Renal Dialysis; Anaesthetics; Emergency medicine; Specialist Outpatient Clinics; Oral Health; Pathology; Medical Imaging; Allied Health Services; Pharmacy; Mental Health Services and Palliative Care.

As a thinly-populated country area, early Logan had few medical services. The problems were highlighted by William Hanlon, writing about the 1860s:

People tried hard to attract a local doctor. When a ship’s surgeon Dr T.E.D. Byrne visited the Logan in 1866 and showed interest in living there, local residents formed a committee and enrolled subscribers who were willing to pay the doctor until his practice was self-supporting. Pastor Helmuth who arrived in 1867 was a homeopathic doctor. A Dr Cunningham also arrived in the district that year and shortly afterwards treated a child who had fallen from a rooftop at a sawmill. The child had been expected to die, but because the doctor could attend her so quickly, was “doing as well as could be expected.” With so few doctors, most people relied on practical local women with a little knowledge of nursing or midwifery. Mrs Richardson of Dairy Creek was “the much-loved universal nurse” of the Waterford/ Loganholme area in the 1860s. Probably each district had a similar figure to whom people turned. Chemists were versatile in dispensing medicine and advice. William Just of Beenleigh advertised in 1887 that his drugs were equal in quality and price to any sold in Brisbane. He could dispense medicine and prepare horse and cattle medicines according to prescriptions by first class veterinary surgeons. He was also the local dentist and claimed that “at teeth extraction, W.J. is second to none in Queensland.” The same year, a new doctor, Herbert Clatworthy, commenced practice in Beenleigh. He was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and had been House Surgeon at the London Hospital and Medical Officer to Wandsworth Infirmary and Metropolitan Infectious Diseases Hospital.