St John of God Mount Lawley Hospital was named in May 2014 when the St John of God Health Care purchased Mercy Hospital. This hospital continues to have a strong focus on maternity services.
St Anne’s Mercy Hospital was named in 1982 when the St Anne’s Maternity Home was incorporated and a Hospital Board of Management established. In 1997 the Hospital was renamed Mercy Hospital.
South Perth Hospital Inc was the new name given to the South Perth Community Centre Hospital Inc in 2003. South Perth Hospital Inc holds admission and birth records from 1956. The South Perth Hospital ‘Our History’ web page includes the ‘SPH Documentary’, a 9-minute video that gives some background to the development of the hospital…
The South Perth Community Centre Hospital Inc was established as a community-run, not-for-profit private hospital in 1956. It had a maternity suite from June 1959. From August 1959 to 1980, expectant mothers who were accommodated at the Ngal-a Mothercraft Home and Training Centre Inc (Ngala) in Kensington often had their babies at the hospital. In…
The Open Door was a maternity home run by the Salvation Army in North Fremantle from 1903 to 1922. From 1911, it was also known as Hopetoun. Originally established for ‘unmarried mothers’, The Open Door also provided general maternity services, with single and married women in separate sections. In 1922, Salvation Army’s maternity services moved…
The Metropolitan Infectious Diseases began 1938 in Subiaco (later known as Shenton Park). It was previously the Victoria Hospital for Infectious Diseases. The Hospital offered rehabilitation for patients with polio and paraplegia. From 1956 it was known as the Shenton Park Annexe. After 1938 the focus of the Metropolitan Infectious Diseases Hospital encompassed the rehabilitation…
Mount Henry Hospital in the Perth suburb of Manning was used as a residential facility to accommodate young people with disabilities in a nursing home environment in 1997. The government-run hospital closed in mid-1998.
St Gerard’s Hospital was a maternity hospital for unmarried women run by the Sisters of Mercy. St Gerard’s opened in 1944 and closed in 1971 or 1972. The building that was St Gerard’s was refurbished as a group home called ‘Davis House’, which was part of the Catherine McAuley Family Centre. The Foundation Stone for…
The St John of God Hospital (SJOGH) was opened by the Sisters of St John of God in the Perth suburb of Subiaco on 19 April 1898. It has been one of the largest hospitals in Western Australia. Many children in Catholic out of home care were treated at SJOGH Subiaco. Babies were born, fostered…
King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEMH) has been Western Australia’s principal public maternity and gynaelogical hospital since 1916. Many young women in out of home care were admitted there, and many babies were adopted from KEMH. In 1958, following overcrowding in the maternity wards of KEMH, the state government purchased Kensington House, at 91 Hensman Road….
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