The Alfred Hospital
Geography
LocationMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates37°50′46″S 144°58′58″E / 37.8461°S 144.9827°E / -37.8461; 144.9827
Organisation
Care systemPublic
TypeDistrict General, Teaching
Affiliated universityMonash University
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds638[1]
Helipads
Helipad(ICAO: YAFD)
Number Length Surface
ft m
1 concrete
History
Opened1871 (1871)
Links
Websitewww.alfred.org.au

The Alfred Hospital, also known as The Alfred or Alfred Hospital, is a leading tertiary hospital in Melbourne, Victoria. It is the second oldest hospital in Victoria, and the oldest Melbourne hospital still operating on its original site.[2] The Alfred Hospital is one of two major adult trauma centres in Victoria, and houses the largest intensive care unit (ICU) in Australia. In 2021 it was ranked as one of the world's best hospitals.[3] It is located at the corner of Commercial and Punt Roads, Prahran, opposite Fawkner Park.

The Alfred Hospital is a major teaching hospital affiliated with Monash University. Alfred Health manages The Alfred Hospital along with Caulfield Hospital and Sandringham Hospital.[4]

History

The "Hospital by the Yarra" was founded in 1871, named after Prince Alfred after he was shot in an unsuccessful assassination attempt while on a royal visit to Australia. The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, New South Wales is also named for the prince.

In 1957, The Alfred was the first hospital in Australia to place a patient on cardiopulmonary bypass to treat complex cardiac lesions.

Services

The Alfred Hospital provides specialty services in the treatment of cancer, asthma, psychiatry, and allergies, in cardiology, and in neurosurgery; houses the largest intensive care unit in Australia; and contains health facilities for adult cystic fibrosis services and an adult burns centre. The Alfred is home to Victoria's sole adult heart and lung transplantation service, as well as Australia's only paediatric lung transplantation service. The hospital is administered by the Metropolitan Health Service Alfred Health.

The Alfred also collaborates with the Alfred Research Alliance, a consortium of medical research institutions located onsite.

Specialty units

Some of the specialty units within The Alfred Hospital include:

  • Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit
  • Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology – unique in Australia
  • Helen Macpherson Smith Burns Unit – unique in Victoria
  • Infectious Diseases Unit – includes state HIV/AIDS service
  • Lung Transplant Unit – second largest in the world
  • Psychiatry Unit accommodating 60 acute inpatients, including two APICSS (Alfred Psychiatry Intensive Care Statewide Service) beds
  • State Major Trauma Service – including road trauma centre
  • The Heart Centre – World Health Organization Centre for Research and Training
  • Largest Mechanical Circulatory Support Service in Australasia (Ventricular Assist Devices)
  • Largest Adult ECMO centre in Australia
  • Largest Hyperbaric unit in the Southern hemisphere
  • William Buckland Radiotherapy Centre – Specialists in Brachytherapy, Stereotactic Radiosurgery and General External Beam Therapy.
  • Interventional Radiology - Australia's largest uterine fibroid embolisation (UFE) program.

Associated facilities

See also

Further reading

  • Mitchell, Ann M (1977). The hospital south of the Yarra : a history of Alfred Hospital Melbourne from foundation to the nineteen-forties. Melbourne: Alfred Hospital. ISBN 095965030X.
  • Alfred Hospital School of Nursing 1880-1980. Melbourne: Alfred Hospital. 1980. OCLC 849231384.

References

  1. ↑ Lowthian, J., Curtis, A., Straney, L., McKimm, A., Keogh, M. and Stripp, A. (2015), Redesigning emergency patient flow with timely quality care at the Alfred. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 27: 35–41. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.12338
  2. ↑ "Bayside Health : About The Alfred". www.alfred.org.au. Archived from the original on 29 August 2007.
  3. ↑ Newsweek (22 February 2021). "World's Best Hospitals 2021 - Top 200 Global". Newsweek. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  4. ↑ "Our hospitals". Alfred Health. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  5. ↑ "Alfred Health". www.deakin.edu.au. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
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