Calvary Hospital North Adelaide is a private, not-for-profit Catholic hospital in North Adelaide. It was previously known as Calvary Hospital Adelaide, originally North Adelaide Hospital, and is one of

Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...

's oldest hospitals, having first been established around 1884, with the

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taking control in 1900.

History

In 1884 Mrs. Isabel Baker and Miss Bessie Baker had been responsible for bringing out a number of sisters of the

Dominican Order The Order of Preachers ( la, Ordo Praedicatorum) abbreviated OP, also known as the Dominicans, is a Catholic mendicant order of Pontifical Right for men founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest, saint and mystic Dominic of Cal ...

, who had intended to follow the nursing profession at the deceased Governor Daly's residence on the corner of Ward and Hill Streets in

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, but owing to unforeseen circumstances, they were not able to do so. The Bakers took over the hospital and Miss Mundy was appointed

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. In 1900, Mother M. Xavier Lynch of the Nursing Sisters of the Little Company of Mary in

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arranged to send five sisters to commence a branch of her order at the hospital, and the Sisters took over the running of the hospital in that year. Drs

Edward Willis Way Dr. Edward Willis Way (1847 – 28 September 1901), frequently written as "E. Willis Way", was a noted medical doctor and surgeon in the early days of the colony of South Australia. Early life and education Way was a son of Rev. James Way of th ...

and James Alexander Greer Hamilton (1854–1925) were the principal surgeons at the North Adelaide Hospital.

Description

Calvary North Adelaide Hospital is a fully operational hospital which, in 2016, had 153 beds. Much of the hospital is heritage listed, maintaining its turn of the century exterior and interior. It features a large maternity wing, 8 operating theatres, day surgery suite, 1 medical ward including a day infusion centre, two surgical wards all supported by a Level II Intensive Care Unit. The hospital also houses the extensive

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Hospice, a 15-bed hospice caring for palliative care patients, and a comprehensive Oncology Centre, a radiology department, and also multiple specialist suites within or adjacent to the hospital. The grounds at the rear of the hospital also contains a turn of the century chapel. It is located on

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, only two kilometres from the

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. It is owned by parent corporation Little Company of Mary Health Care (or "Calvary Health Care") which, in 2006, acquired

Calvary Wakefield Hospital The Calvary Wakefield Hospital, formerly Private Hospital, Wakefield Street (PHWS) and variants, Wakefield Street Private Hospital, Wakefield Memorial Hospital and Wakefield Hospital, referred to informally as "the Wakefield", was a private ho ...

Calvary Central Districts Hospital Calvary ( la, Calvariae or ) or Golgotha ( grc-gre, Γολγοθᾶ, ''Golgothâ'') was a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus was said to have been crucified according to the canonical Gospels. Since at least the early mediev ...

and

Calvary Rehabilitation Hospital Calvary ( la, Calvariae or ) or Golgotha ( grc-gre, Γολγοθᾶ, ''Golgothâ'') was a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus was said to have been crucified according to the canonical Gospels. Since at least the early mediev ...

. Due to these acquisitions, the original hospital is now known as Calvary North Adelaide instead of Calvary Hospital Adelaide.

Sources

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