Our Hospital: Greenslopes Private Hospital History - 1960s-70s

Hospital History

1960s-70s

The first dedicated allied health building in a repatriation hospital was opened at Greenslopes in 1968. The $200,000 building housed occupational therapy, physiotherapy, educational therapy services, a gymnasium, and rooms for social workers and chaplains.

An 8-bed intensive therapy unit was also built, but has since been demolished. In the twenty-five years from 1945, the general appearance of the hospital did not change noticeably, although the wards were repainted to cover the dark and unwelcoming mission brown colour with an attractive light green.

UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL

Greenslopes became a university teaching hospital in 1970. The University of Queenslands Departments of Medicine and Surgery moved to Greenslopes in 1972 and occupied teaching facilities vacated by the School of Nursing. The departments were to remain there until a further extension to the administration block in 1992 provided them with modern accommodation.

Diagnostic ultrasound services were established at the hospital in 1974. The following year, a control centre was set up to manage the patient transport system.

In 1976, outpatient services were relocated from the old Taxation Building in the city centre to the new Outpatient Clinic Block at Greenslopes. In 1979, the old repatriation hospital at Windsor (‘Rosemount') was closed and its patients were transferred to Greenslopes.