Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) is a 340-bed acute tertiary referral hospital in the western suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.
The hospital opened in 1954. At the request of the Government of South Australia, the hospital was named after Queen Elizabeth II, who had recently acceded to the Australian throne. A large portrait of the Queen, together with a letter authorising the QEH name and granting Arms to the Hospital, decorates the principal foyer.
Originally designed to service the western suburbs of Adelaide, the QEH, is now the second-most utilised hospital in South Australia by patients from the central northern region of Adelaide.
The QEH was the first unit in Australia to perform kidney transplantation successfully. The hospital houses the Australian and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry (ANZDATA), which collects national statistics on the treatment of those patients with end-stage renal failure.
In 2002, Premier Mike Rann, who had campaigned in Opposition against plans to privatise the Hospital, announced a massive ten-year redevelopment of the QEH. In 2005, Premier Rann and Health Minister Lea Stevens unveiled plans for the QEH's $120 million second-stage redevelopment. It included construction of a new three-level inpatient building for maternity, surgical, oncology and renal dialysis patients, and a 580-place car park building. In 2009 Premier Rann opened the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital Research Building, incorporating the Basil Hetzel Institute for Medical Research.
On the 18th of June 2017, a new stage of redevelopment worth over $200 million was announced which aims to transform the main building, which has not been upgraded for decades, into a modern hospital. It is going to upgrade every patient area in the Hospital.
The QEH is a teaching hospital for the University of Adelaide's medical school and provides clinical attachments in a variety of specialties for undergraduate medical students, including Medicine, Surgery, Emergency Medicine, and Psychiatry.
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