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St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne

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259:, the hospital was intended to be a charitable institution, which was hoped would help bolster Melbourne's minimal health care. This idea was given avid support by Melbourne's Catholic Archbishop Dr Thomas Carr, who welcomed the idea of a hospital to take care of the 'poor and sick and abandoned children... the young girls of poor parents and servants...' These ideals corresponded directly with prevalent Victorian ideas of benevolence, which were particularly popular with the middle classes. In these early days, the hospital was quite small, occupying three terrace houses in the corner of Victoria Parade and Regent Street (now occupied by the west end of the Healy Wing), with room for less than 100 beds. Though located very centrally on the edge of the CBD, the suburb beyond, 309:
buildings on the narrow Princes Street and Regent Streets, now within the hospital grounds. In the early 70s, the private hospital wing was replaced by a larger one, and a medical suites building was built on the west corner of Fitzroy Street c1980. In the early 1990s, the convent was demolished and replaced by a new high-rise block, known as the Inpatient Services Building, completed in 1995. The new hospital building was widely praised for its innovative design - for example, complementary medical and surgical specialties (such as neurology/neurosurgery) exist on opposite sides of the same ward, there are decentralised nurses' stations, and satellite pharmacies on every second floor stocking locally relevant medications.
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The hospital greatly expanded in the 1950s with a convent behind the Healy Wing, a 10-storey nurses home on the corner of Nicholson Street, and the Daly Wing behind that. In the 1960s–70s, the hospital expanded over a much larger area with the Bolte Wing on Nicholson Street, and clinical services
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St Vincent's Health operates a mental health ward and an Enhanced Crisis Assessment & Treatment Team & Triage Service (ECATT) that assesses patients in the Emergency Department and manages patients with acute psychiatric disorders who are a potential risk to themselves or others in the
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The earliest building remaining on the site is a red-brick arched ward block built in 1905 set behind the terraces, which was later joined by the striking stepped brickwork of a new front block, the Healy Wing, built in 1931–34, designed by
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St Vincent's Hospital is also a clinical school of the University of Notre Dame, Sydney. Third and fourth year students have placements in geriatrics, anaesthetics and ICU.
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There are several medical and surgical wards at St Vincent's Hospital. There is also a psychiatric unit and an Emergency department.
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St Vincent's Pathology is a major pathology service in Victoria, operated out of St Vincent's Hospital. Services offered include
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Archbishop of Melbourne. It housed the hospital's first outpatients' department and a residence for nurses in training.
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Over time, it became a large public hospital, with close links to the Mercy Hospital, Melbourne and
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St Vincent's Hospital was opened in 1893 as a Catholic hospital owned and operated by the
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In 2015, it was announced that the Druids Wing would be demolished to make way for a new
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A clinical school was opened in St Vincent's Hospital in 1909 as part of the
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which offers a variety of medical, surgical and mental health specialities.
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It is operated by the St Vincent's Health service, previously known as the
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The hospital also offers a wide range of postgraduate training programs.
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Croggon, Veryan 'One Ray of Sunshine: St Vincent's Hospital' in
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Ways of a Hospital: St Vincent's in Melbourne 1890s-1990s
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St Vincent's Hospital (page at St Vincent's Health)
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St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne
St Vincent's Private Hospital Melbourne

Melbourne
Coordinates
37°48′25″S 144°58′30″E / 37.807°S 144.975°E / -37.807; 144.975
Affiliated university
The University of Melbourne
Emergency department
www.svhm.org.au
Hospitals in Australia
Fitzroy
Melbourne
Sisters of Charity Health Service, Melbourne
Nicholson Street
Victoria Street
tertiary referral centre
Sisters of Charity
same name
Fitzroy
St Vincent's Private Hospital Melbourne
Sisters of Charity Health Service, Melbourne

Stephenson & Meldrum
coadjutor

Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery
University of Melbourne
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Austin Hospital

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