Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney

Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney
South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
Edmund Blacket building at the hospital
Geography
Location	Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates	33°55′07″S 151°14′20″E / 33.91861°S 151.23878°E / -33.91861; 151.23878Coordinates: 33°55′07″S 151°14′20″E / 33.91861°S 151.23878°E / -33.91861; 151.23878
Organisation
Care system	Public Medicare (AU)
Hospital type	Teaching
Affiliated university	University of New South Wales
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	440
History
Founded	1852
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Australia

The Prince of Wales Hospital is a 440 bed major public teaching hospital located in Sydney's eastern suburb of Randwick, providing a full range of hospital services to the people of New South Wales, Australia. The hospital has strong ties to the University of New South Wales.

The Prince of Wales Hospital had its origins in 1852 with the formation of the Society for Destitute Children which established the Asylum for Destitute Children with the first building opened on 21 March 1858 in Paddington. After an appeal for funds in 1870, the Catherine Hayes Hospital opened, reputedly with plans approved by Florence Nightingale. In 1915, during the First World War the hospital was converted by the NSW Government into a military hospital and then a repatriation hospital, and renamed the Fourth Australian Repatriation Hospital. In 1927 an association between the Coast Hospital and the Fourth Australian Repatriation Hospital at Randwick began. With the opening of the Concord Repatriation General Hospital in 1953, the hospital was renamed the Prince of Wales Hospital, and operated as an annexe of Sydney Hospital. Restructuring and hospital redevelopment has continued to occur to enhance the medical and patient facilities of the hospital, including amalgamation with the Prince Henry Hospital, Royal South Sydney Hospital and the Eastern Suburbs Hospital.

Originally known as the Coast Hospital, Prince Henry had its origins managing patients with infectious diseases such as smallpox (outbreak in 1881), diphtheria, tuberculosis and scarlet fever. In 1900 there was an outbreak of the bubonic plague, with 303 cases reported and 103 deaths, and a further outbreak in 1921. In 1919 the 1918 flu pandemic reached Sydney, requiring the full resources of the hospital.