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Minister for Veterans’ Affairs visits Greenslopes Private Hospital
Nov 02, 2015
Staff and patients at Greenslopes Private Hospital were delighted to welcome the new Minister for Veteran Affairs, The Hon. Stuart Robert MP to the hospital today.
This was the Minister’s first visit to Greenslopes Private Hospital in Brisbane which has a long history of caring for veterans and war widows. The Minister was welcomed by Ramsay Health Care Australia CEO, Mr Danny Sims, and Greenslopes Private Hospital CEO, Mr Tim Daniel and given a tour of the hospital including a visit to the historical Bunker Museum.
Following the tour and some short presentations the Minister was able to mingle with members of the broader hospital community including staff, doctors and representatives from key veteran organisations.
Hospital CEO, Tim Daniel said that whilst Greenslopes Private is proud to be Australia’s largest private teaching hospital there remains a strong focus on providing first class care for veterans and war widows.
“On any given day of the year we have an average of 200 veteran and war widows with us as patients in Greenslopes Private Hospital,” Mr Daniel said.
“Our hospital looks very different to when it opened in 1942, but inside our mission and passion remains the same. Our culture and identify even today is underpinned by the very special and unique relationship we have with our veteran patients and the veteran community as a whole.”
The Minister enjoyed meeting staff and patients including a Vietnam Veteran who was undergoing chemotherapy in the Cyril Gilbert Cancer Centre.
Greenslopes Hospital first opened in 1942 as 112th Australian General Hospital Unit (112 AGH) Greenslopes to care for returning soldiers from WWII. In 1947 the hospital the Commonwealth Repatriation Commission took over the hospital and continued providing ongoing care for veterans & war widows until the mid-1990s when the government made the decision to sell the hospital. Ramsay Health Care was the successful tenderer and acquired the hospital on 6 January 1995 which was then renamed Greenslopes Private Hospital. The history of the hospital is captured in the historical Bunker Museum located on the lower lobby level of the Hospital.
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