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Footscray Hospital - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 37°47′31″S 144°53′13″E / 37.791910°S 144.886886°E

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Footscray Hospital
Western Health

Geography
Location	160 Gordon Street, Footscray, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates	37°47′31″S 144°53′13″E / 37.791910°S 144.886886°E / -37.791910; 144.886886
Organisation
Care system	Medicare
Funding	Public hospital
Type	General
Affiliated university	The University of Melbourne Victoria University
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	290
Helipad	No
History
Opened	1953

Footscray Hospital is a public hospital located on Gordon Street in Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It is one of three major hospitals operated by Western Health in the western suburbs of Melbourne.

History

Footscray Hospital was opened in 1953 as Footscray and District Hospital, with 213 beds and the first hospital in the state to be fully air-conditioned.^[1] The construction of the hospital came as a result of 32 years of lobbying by the community surrounding the area, with a successful fundraiser to purchase the site occurring in 1921. However, the Charities' Board refused permission to build the hospital three years later in 1924. In the same year, an Outpatients Clinic, Dispensary and Casualty Station was established.^[2]

In 1941, the Charities' Board approved the construction of a 30-bed hospital but events of World War II meant construction would not began until later in 1947.^[2]

In 1972, the hospital was renamed to Western General and a new Outpatients complex was constructed in 1976.

In 1986, the hospital was amalgamated with Sunshine Hospital to form the Maribyrnong Medical Centre. This name would later be renamed to Western Hospital in 1989.

Throughout the 1990s, the hospital went through a period of expansion with new facilities such as a new emergency department and Community Drug and Alcohol Services unit.

The hospital was renamed to Footscray Hospital in 2014.

Facilities

The hospital has approximately 290 beds. This includes an emergency department, an intensive care unit, a cardiac care unit, general medicine, surgery, cancer services, adult specialist clinics (outpatients).

Footscray Hospital is part of the Western Clinical School at the Melbourne Medical School alongside Sunshine Hospital.^[3]

Performance

Footscray Hospital saw the admission of 8,159 patients from January until March 2018; 5,107 of which were in the emergency department and the remaining 3,487 were same-day patients.^[4]

Future

Footscray Hospital has been described as 'run down' or 'past its use-by date' in local media and community.^[5]^[6] As a result, the Victorian state government announced in its 2017 budget that a new Footscray Hospital will be constructed adjacent to Victoria University, Melbourne which will see more modern facilities and reduce waiting times on the current network.

Construction of the “New Footscray Hospital” commenced in early 2021, led by global construction company Multiplex. It is scheduled to open, replacing the existing hospital, in 2025.^[7]

References

^ "FOOTSCRAY HOSPITAL OPENED - First Fully Air Conditioned". The Age. 29 June 1953. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Celebrating 60 years of Footscray Hospital". Western Health. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
^ "Western Clinical School". The University of Melbourneaccessdate=11 July 2019.
^ "Western Hospital - Footscray". Victorian Health Services Performance. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
^ "Blood on the hospital floor". ABC News Australia. 23 September 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
^ "Footscray's proposed new $1.5b hospital a 'gamechanger' for Melbourne's west". ABC News Australia. 7 October 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
^ "New Footscray Hospital". Victorian Health Building Authority. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 14 June 2023.

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