Adelaide Community Healthcare Alliance is a

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group incorporated on 9 November 1999.

Healthscope Healthscope is a for-profit Australian company which operates private hospitals, medical centres and rehabilitation hospitals. The company is headquartered on St Kilda Road, Melbourne. It operates medical/surgical hospitals and a number of psyc ...

has had day-to-day operational responsibility for the hospitals since 2003. It comprises the following hospitals: *

Ashford Hospital Ashford Hospital is a general hospital in Ashford, Surrey. It is managed by the Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. History The hospital has its origins in the Staines Poor Law Union Infirmary which opened in the mid-19th cen ...

, opened in 1950 as a joint collaboration between Unley, Mitcham, West Torrens and Marion Councils, with a group of western suburbs doctors. *Flinders Private Hospital opened in 1999 adjacent to

Flinders Medical Centre Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) is a major public tertiary hospital and teaching school, co-located with Flinders University and the 130 bed Flinders Private Hospital located at Bedford Park, South Australia. It opened in 1976. It serves as the t ...

and the Flinders University School of Medicine. *The

Memorial Hospital, North Adelaide A memorial is an object or place which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or works of ...

opened in March 1919 with the first patient being admitted in 1920 by the South Australian

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to honour veterans of World War I.

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