COVER STORY 0 AnGreenslopet h This year Greenslopes Private Hospital celebrated Up until 1945, all the hospital’s patients The future for the hospital was assessed in 70 years since it opened as a military hospital in had been enlisted servicemen. By early 1946, the 1980s, with the option for privatisation being 1942. In honour of this tremendous milestone, an increasing proportion of patients were preferred. This would mean Greenslopes would the hospital community came together in a discharged men and women suffering service- continue as a university teaching hospital with series of celebrations to pay homage to its related wounds or illness, and progressively more the majority of its clientele being veterans. proud beginnings and to reflect on how far wards were taken over for ex-service personnel. The arrangement would also keep veteran the hospital has come since its founding more On 1 April 1947, the hospital was officially patients together in a dedicated hospital where than half a century ago. transferred from the Army to the Repatriation their special needs could be met. The significant Commission and renamed Repatriation General difference was that Greenslopes would become It was during the tail end of the Second Hospital Greenslopes. The change to become a privately owned hospital and the first private World War when a group of 35 patients were a university teaching hospital occurred in 1970, teaching hospital in Australia. moved from Australian General Hospital and it was the combination of this military “Yungaba” to Ward 1 at the newly constructed The successful tenderer for privatisation history and commitment to teaching that would hospital at Greenslopes. Over the next two was Ramsay Health Care, which assumed inevitably shape the direction for Greenslopes months all patients were transferred and responsibility for the hospital on 24 January Private Hospital. the hospital at “Yungaba” was closed. After 1995. Under Ramsay Health Care Greenslopes the war, the Greenslopes hospital worked “These beginnings,” said Greenslopes has become Australia’s largest private teaching at maximum capacity with some 900 staff Private Hospital CEO Mark Page earlier this year, hospital while maintaining its commitment to caring for up to 1,120 patients, including “Along with our lead role as a major teaching providing veterans with the highest standard returning servicemen recovering from wounds facility and our role in facilitating research, all of patient care. It is under Ramsay Health Care and tropical illness, and POWs who were contribute greatly to the hospital’s amazing that Greenslopes Private Hospital celebrates malnourished and gravely ill. culture that exists today.” its 70 years in 2012. 8 GPHnews
GPH News Winter 2012
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