Calvary North Adelaide Hospital

{{Short description|Hospital in South Australia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox hospital | name = Calvary North Adelaide Hospital | org_group = Little Company of Mary Health Care | logo = | location = Strangways Terrace, North Adelaide | region = | state = SA | country = Australia | coordinates = | healthcare = Private | type = General | speciality = Maternity, Haematology and Oncology, Palliative care Urology, Orthopaedics, Gynaecology, Women's Health, and Hepato-biliary and pancreatic General Surgery | standards = | emergency = No | affiliation = None | beds = 133 | founded = 1900 | closed = | website = {{URL|https://www.calvarycare.org.au/hospitals/calvary-north-adelaide-hospital}} | other_links = }}

'''Calvary Hospital North Adelaide''' is a private, not-for-profit Catholic hospital in North Adelaide.

It was previously known as '''Calvary Hospital Adelaide''', originally '''North Adelaide Hospital,''' and is one of Adelaide's oldest hospitals, having first been established around 1884, with the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary taking control in 1900.

==History==  In 1884 Mrs. Isabel Baker and Miss Bessie Baker had been responsible for bringing out a number of sisters of the Dominican Order, who had intended to follow the nursing profession at the deceased Governor Daly's residence on the corner of Ward and Hill Streets in North Adelaide, but owing to unforeseen circumstances, they were not able to do so. The Bakers took over the hospital and Miss Mundy was appointed matron.<ref name=first100/>

In 1900, Mother M. Xavier Lynch of the Nursing Sisters of the Little Company of Mary in Sydney arranged to send five sisters to commence a branch of her order at the hospital,<ref name=first100>{{cite book|title=Nursing in South Australia: First Hundred Years 1837-1937| publisher= South Australian Trained Nurses’ Centenary Committee| location=Adelaide|date= February 1938|page=151}}</ref> and the Sisters took over the running of the hospital in that year.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166999005 |title=North Adelaide Nursing Sisters |newspaper=The Southern Cross |volume=XIV |issue=693 |location=South Australia |date=10 October 1902 |accessdate=26 September 2016 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

Drs Edward Willis Way and James Alexander Greer Hamilton (1854–1925<ref>{{cite web| url=https://amasahistoricalcommittee.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/ppgp_2020_07_06.pdf| title=Past Presidents of South Australian Branch of the BMA and AMA (SA) 1879-| publisher=Australian Medical Association| author=AMA Historical Committee| access-date=13 May 2021| archive-date=13 May 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513041543/https://amasahistoricalcommittee.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/ppgp_2020_07_06.pdf| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Dr. James Alexander Greer Hamilton | website=Virtual War Memorial | date=8 October 1925 | url=https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/184218 | access-date=13 May 2021}}</ref>) were the principal surgeons at the North Adelaide Hospital.<ref name=first100/>

== Services == Calvary North Adelaide Hospital provides a range of acute and specialist health services, including:

* Medical and surgical services, supported by a perioperative suite with a day of surgery unit, three procedural rooms and seven operating theatres.<ref>{{cite web |title=North Adelaide Hospital – About us |url=https://www.calvarycare.org.au/hospitals/calvary-north-adelaide-hospital/about-9 |publisher=Calvary Health Care |access-date=2025-12-15 }}</ref>

* Gastroenterology services, including diagnostic and interventional endoscopy procedures.<ref>{{cite web |title=Endoscopy services – Calvary North Adelaide Hospital |url=https://www.calvarycare.org.au/hospitals/calvary-north-adelaide-hospital/services/endoscopy |publisher=Calvary Health Care |access-date=2025-12-15 }}</ref>

* Cancer services, including medical oncology and chemotherapy treatment services.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cancer services – Calvary North Adelaide Hospital |url=https://www.calvarycare.org.au/hospitals/calvary-north-adelaide-hospital/services/cancer-services |publisher=Calvary Health Care |access-date=2025-12-15 }}</ref>

* Maternity and women’s health services, including birthing and postnatal care.<ref>{{cite web |title=Maternity services – Calvary North Adelaide Hospital |url=https://www.calvarycare.org.au/hospitals/calvary-north-adelaide-hospital/services/maternity |publisher=Calvary Health Care |access-date=2025-12-15 }}</ref>

* Palliative and end-of-life care through the Mary Potter Hospice, a 15-bed inpatient hospice unit.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mary Potter Hospice |url=https://www.marypotter.org.au/mary-potter-hospice/ |publisher=Mary Potter Foundation |access-date=2025-12-15 }}</ref>

* Diagnostic and support services including radiology, pathology, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and pharmacy services.<ref>{{cite web |title=North Adelaide Hospital – About us |url=https://www.calvarycare.org.au/hospitals/calvary-north-adelaide-hospital/about-9 |publisher=Calvary Health Care |access-date=2025-12-15 }}</ref>

==Description== Calvary North Adelaide Hospital is a fully operational hospital which, according to Calvary Health Care’s 2019–20 Annual Review, has 133 beds.<ref>{{cite report |title=Calvary Health Care Annual Review 2019–20 |publisher=Little Company of Mary Health Care |url=https://assets.eu.ctfassets.net/easvaecmznim/52cQ7JvotHvOltwXWDwRUR/38ca4d41fec18651dae15c4b56df6728/fy1920-annual-review-v2.pdf |quote=Calvary North Adelaide Hospital is a 133 bed acute inpatient private hospital |access-date=2025-12-15 }}</ref>

Much of the hospital is heritage listed, maintaining its turn of the century exterior and interior.

It features a large maternity wing, 8 operating theatres, day surgery suite, 1 medical ward including a day infusion centre, two surgical wards all supported by a Level II Intensive Care Unit.

The hospital also houses the extensive Mary Potter Hospice, a 15-bed hospice caring for palliative care patients, and a comprehensive Oncology Centre, a radiology department, and also multiple specialist suites within or adjacent to the hospital.

The grounds at the rear of the hospital also contains a turn of the century chapel.

It is located on Strangways Terrace in North Adelaide, only two kilometres from the Adelaide city centre.

It is owned by parent corporation Little Company of Mary Health Care (or "Calvary Health Care") which, in 2006, acquired Calvary Wakefield Hospital, Calvary Central Districts Hospital and Calvary Rehabilitation Hospital. Due to these acquisitions, the original hospital is now known as Calvary North Adelaide instead of Calvary Hospital Adelaide.<ref name="selfabout">{{Cite news |url=http://www.calvarynorthadelaide.org.au/about.html |title=Little Company of Mary Health Care |accessdate=18 May 2016 |newspaper=Calvary North Adelaide Hospital |quote=[...] Calvary North Adelaide Hospital was established in 1900 by the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary [... the hospital is a] 153 bed facility located in North Adelaide [...] In May 2006 Little Company of Mary Health Care acquired Calvary Wakefield Hospital, Calvary Rehabilitation Hospital and Calvary Central Districts Hospital [...]}}</ref>

== Facilities == Facilities at Calvary North Adelaide Hospital include patient rooms, visitor lounges and landscaped grounds. The campus also contains a heritage-listed chapel and dedicated support service areas.<ref>{{cite web |title=Calvary North Adelaide Hospital |url=https://www.calvarycare.org.au/hospitals/calvary-north-adelaide-hospital |publisher=Calvary Health Care |access-date=2025-12-15 }}</ref>

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Category:Hospitals in Adelaide Category:Hospitals established in 1900 Category:1900 establishments in Australia Category:North Adelaide Category:Catholic hospitals in Oceania

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