Hospitals

Aim:

To provide accessible hospital care according to recognised standards of quality in a way that is acceptable to clients.

Target Group

Any person in the State requiring hospital treatment.

Services provided under this program

The network of hospitals across the State range from small district to larger regional hospitals in the country through to the large teaching hospitals in the metropolitan area.

Secondary Hospital Care

• Secondary level hospital treatment and obstetric care in the public sector are provided at the following hospitals:

• Metropolitan: Wanneroo, Osborne Park, Swan Districts, Bentley, Kalamunda, Armadale/Kelmscott and Rockingham/Kwinana;

• The nine major regional hospitals: Albany, Narrogin, Bunbury, Northam, Kalgoorlie, Geraldton, Carnarvon, Port Hedland and Derby;

• Sixty-eight smaller hospitals located in country areas.

• These public hospitals provide a broad range of services including emergency, medical, surgical, paediatric, obstetric and rehabilitation services, but do not provide tertiary level or super-speciality services.

Tertiary Hospital Care

• Tertiary level hospital treatment and obstetric care in the public sector are provided at Royal Perth Hospital; Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital; Fremantle Hospital; King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women; and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children.

• These public hospitals provide a broad range of super-specialty and specialty services, for example, intensive care, vascular, cardiothoracic, oncology, renal, neurosurgery and obstetrics. They provide significant levels of inpatient care, cater for relatively rare diseases and provide unusually complex and/or costly forms of treatment.

• Hospital care encompasses those services provided either in an acute hospital setting or as part of specific "hospital in the home" initiatives or similar post-acute hospital outreach programs.