The Home for Incurables was opened in 1879 in Fullarton. Run by a board of management and funded by charitable donations and government subsidies the Home cared for patients, both adults and children, with diseases and injuries that were considered ‘incurable’. In 1981 the Home was renamed the Julia Farr Centre. Prior to the establishment…
Queen Victoria Hospital was the new name given to the Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital in 1966. Run by a committee of management the Hospital provided maternity and other women’s health services. It also operated as an adoption agency. From 1983 some men were also admitted. In 1989 the Queen Victoria Hospital and the Adelaide Children’s…
Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital was the new name given to the Queen’s Home at Rose Park in 1939. Run by a committee of management it provided maternity services for expectant mothers who stayed between 2 and 12 days after the birth of their child. Many women residing at the Kate Cocks Memorial Babies’ Home also…
The Queen’s Home at Rose Park opened in 1902. Run by a committee of management it provided maternity services for mothers and trained nurses in maternity work. From 1912 to 1914 a Babies Ward operated at the Home for babies under one year old. Many women residing at Kate Cocks Memorial Babies’ Home had their…
Novita Children’s Services was the new name adopted by the former Crippled Children’s Association of South Australia in 2004. In 2019 Spastic Centres of South Australia (SCOSA) merged with Novita Children’s Services, and continued to provide disability services under the Novita name.
The Crippled Children’s Association of South Australia, formerly the Crippled Children’s Committee, was incorporated in 1939. It ran the Somerton Crippled Children’s Home and the Regency Park Centre. In 2004 the Association voted unanimously to change its name to Novita Children’s Services.
The Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Carrieton, provided accommodation for Aboriginal children evacuated from the Northern Territory’s Garden Point Mission, Melville Island, during World War II. The evacuees were funded by the government and cared for by the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. In 1944, 34 girls and 7…
The Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) was the new name given to the Adelaide Hospital in 1939. It was located on North Terrace in Adelaide and was run by a board of management. From 1941 Northcote Home operated in conjunction with the RAH. From 1948 the Royal Adelaide Hospital ran the Northfield Wards of the Royal…
Adelaide Central Mission came into being in 1977, with the establishment of the Uniting Church in Australia. Previously, it was known as the Adelaide Central Methodist Mission. In 2003, its name changed to UnitingCare Wesley Adelaide Inc, when Adelaide Central Mission joined a Partnership in Mission along with Port Adelaide Central Mission, UnitingCare Port Pirie…
UnitingCare Wesley Adelaide came into being in 2003. It was previously called Adelaide Central Mission. In 2012, there was another name change, to Uniting Communities.
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