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St John Of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital
St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital is a 60-bed hospital providing specialist inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation care. Located in Frankston, Victoria, the facility is a specialist rehabilitation hospital, providing neurological, Orthopedic surgery, orthopedic, cardiac and reconditioning programs. The hospital was built in 1976 and opened the following year as Peninsula Private Hospital. It then relocated to a new site in 1999 and shortly after became the Nepean Rehabilitation Hospital. The facility was acquired by St John of God Health Care in March 2004 and renamed St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital in 2012. The hospital made global news in 2009 for its work with Russell McPhee, a man who had been paralysed for 20 years. After undertaking a course of Botulinum toxin therapy of strabismus, botulinum toxin injections – or botox – McPhee was reportedly able to walk again. St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital is a division o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John Of God Health Care
St John of God Health Care is a Catholic provider of health care services in Australia, with 24 hospitals and facilities comprising more than 3,400 beds. The group operates in Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, and New Zealand. The group has evolved out of the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God, a Catholic order. History 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 fever during the Western Australian gold rushes, 1890s gold rush. The first hospital established under this arrangement was at Kalgoorlie in the late 1890s followed shortly by St John of God Subiaco Hospital, another in the Perth suburb of Subiaco, Western Australia, Subiaco. The Sisters often cared for patients with infectious diseases including typhoid and Hansen's disease (leprosy), which spread quickly in cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |