St John of God Health Care

St John of God Health Care is Australia's third largest private hospital operator, with 13 hospitals and facilities in the states of Western Australia, New South Wales and Victoria, as well as service in New Zealand.

In June 2012, St John of God Health Care secured a 23-year contract with the Western Australian State Government to build and operate the $360 million Midland Health Campus - Perth’s next major public hospital.

St John of God Health Care Inc is a wholly owned and controlled entity of St John of God Australia Ltd, established in 2004 to sponsor the ministry that until then was run solely by the Sisters of St John of God.

The congregation of the Sisters of St John of God was founded in 1871 in Wexford, Ireland. In 1895, Perth’s Bishop Matthew Gibney sent a request to the Sisters for help to care for people suffering from typhoid during the 1890s Gold Rush. The first hospital established under this arrangement was at Kalgoorlie in the late 1890s followed shortly by another in the Perth suburb of Subiaco.

The Sisters of St John of God went on to establish hospitals, pathology and social outreach services in Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.

In 2007, St John of God Health Care merged with the services previously operated by the Hospitaller Order of St John of God in Victoria, New South Wales and New Zealand.

The symbol used by St John of God Health Care is a cross with a pomegranate. The cross symbolises the Christian heritage of the organisation; the pomegranate, which is open to allow the seeds to scatter, symbolises self-giving and represents the organisation's values.

The pomegranate symbol was chosen by the Sisters of St John of God to reflect the order’s patron Saint, John of God, who ministered to the sick and poor in the Spanish town of Granada – ‘pomegranate’ in Spanish – in the early 16th century.

St John of God Health Care operates private hospitals, as well as pathology, home nursing and Social Outreach & Advocacy services.

St John of God operates nine medical/surgical, one rehabilitation and three psychiatric, drug and alcohol service hospitals, and pathology services across Australia. It also operates home nursing services in Western Australia and Victoria and supported residential facilities for people living with a disability in Victoria and New Zealand.

St John of God Health Care operates a number of social outreach and advocacy programs, including:

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