Cairns Base Hospital
The Cairns Base Hospital is a hospital focusing on specialized care in Cairns , Australia. It was founded in 1884 and is right in the center of the city on the esplanade. In addition to the city of Cairns and its surroundings, it provides medical care for around 260,000 people from large parts of the hinterland, Far North Queensland , the southern region around Cairns to Cape York , the Torres Strait and parts of Papua New Guinea .
The hospital currently has 450 beds and employs 2097 people, including 233 doctors and 1101 nurses.
Departments
- General and Visceral Surgery
- Trauma surgery
- Orthopedics
- anesthesia
- Internal medicine (cardiology, nephrology, gastroenterology)
- oncology
- Radiation Clinic
- Pediatrics
- gynecology
- Emergency room
- radiology
The hospital has a modern, interdisciplinary emergency department with a 24-hour reception standby. The Royal Flying Doctor Service is also located in the city and supplies northern Australia and neighboring countries such as Papua New Guinea from here . Many of the Flying Doctors' patients continue to receive care in the Base Hospital. The RFDS base in Cairns is the largest Flying Doctors location in Australia.
Medical education
The James Cook University Clinical School for Medicine and Dentistry , which trains fourth to sixth year medical students, is affiliated to Cairns Base Hospital . Around 70 students are currently studying at the Cairns hospital. James Cook University's main campus is in Smithfield, about 6 miles north of the city.
History of the hospital
In 1878 the population of the city had increased to 500 residents, which made the establishment of a hospital necessary. First a small hospital with 3 beds was set up on the Esplanade between Shields Street and Aplin Street, which was looked after by 5 nurses. Since the small hospital soon no longer met the requirements of the time, a new hospital was built in 1885 a little further north at the current location. In 1912 the hospital was expanded. In 1935 the hospital already had 136 beds and 36 nurses - by the 1950s the number of nurses increased to 84. In 1997 the house had 352 hospital beds and 543 nursing staff.
In 2006 the first cardiac catheter laboratory was opened in Cairns Base Hospital and a new computer tomograph was acquired. In 2007, the kidney disease department was expanded for $ 1.43 million. In 2009 the Base Hospital was equipped with a magnetic resonance tomograph . Between 2009 and 2012, the entire Emergency Department was modernized and moved to new premises, and the cardiac catheter laboratory was again modernized.
facts and figures
| Total recordings in 2008 | 5,741 |
| Number of operations | 9,359 |
| Number of admissions in the emergency room | 42,891 |
| Number of dialyses performed | 18,439 |
| Number of oncological treatments | 4,091 |
| Births | 2,601 |
All information as of 2009.
Photo gallery
Cairns Base Hospital
Entrance area
A block
Access for emergency vehicles
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cairns Base Hospital homepage - Cairns and Hinterland Health Service District. Queensland Health, January 11, 2012, accessed March 15, 2012 .
- ^ Cairns Base Hospital Profile. Queensland Health, March 3, 2011, accessed March 15, 2012 .
- ↑ Cairns Base | Royal Flying Doctor Service. Royal Flying Doctor Service January 1, 2012, archived from the original on March 22, 2012 ; Retrieved March 15, 2012 .
- ^ Cairns Clinical School - JCU. James Cook University Queensland January 27, 2012, archived from the original on November 26, 2012 ; Retrieved March 15, 2012 .
- ^ Midge Balodis: Nursing in the Tropics, 1878-2000 . The Historical Society, Cairns, North Queensland, Cairns 2000, pp. 120 .
Web links
- Official website of Cairns Base Hospital - Queensland Health
- Report of a German medical student who spent part of her last academic year (practical year) in Cairns
Coordinates: 16 ° 54 ′ 44 ″ S , 145 ° 46 ′ 3.6 ″ E