Royel prince Alfred Hospital

General Information

Address	Missenden Road Camperdown NSW 2050 Phone: +61 2 9515 6111 Fax: +61 2 9515 6133
Executive Director	Ms Diane Gill
Director of Nursing	Ms Katharine Szitniak
Director of Medical Administration	Dr Roy Donnelly
Director of Corporate Services	Ms Diana Peers

Royal Prince Alfred is the principal teaching hospital of the University of Sydney and offers speciality services from its main campus as well as from Rachel Forster, King George V, and Dame Eadith Walker Hospitals. RPAH is one of Australia's leading hospitals, providing an extensive range of diagnostic and treatment services. Its specialities include cardiology, obstetrics and gynaecology, cancer, respiratory medicine, neurology, liver and kidney transplants.

Introduction

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital rose to national prominence in 1995 when it became the subject of Channel Nine’s reality television series RPA. The top-rating series followed patients through their treatment in NSW’s premier teaching hospital.

RPA has been a respected provider of health care since 1882.

The principal teaching hospital of the University of Sydney offers specialty services from its main campus in Missenden Rd, Camperdown; Rachel Foster Hospital, Redfern; King George V Hospital, Camperdown; Dame Edith Walker Hospital, Concord West; and Rivendell Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatric Services at Thomas Walker Hospital, Concord West.

As one of Australia's leading hospitals, RPA provides an extensive range of diagnostic and treatment services to more people in NSW than any other public hospital. Its specialties include cardiology, obstetrics and gynaecology, cancer, respiratory medicine, neurology, and liver and kidney transplants.

Springfield Hospital

Springfield Hospital is a not-for-profit community hospital located in Springfield, VT. A subsidiary of Springfield Medical Care Systems, we are certified as a critical access hospital serving communities in southeastern Vermont and southwestern New Hampshire. We offer a full range of inpatient and outpatient care, 24-hour emergency care, adult day care and specialty clinics in Springfield, VT. We have primary care physician offices located throughout our service area, and seven-day-per-week walk-in care centers in Ludlow, VT and Bellows Falls, VT. We also offer a comprehensive program of inpatient and outpatient mental health services at The Windham Center in Bellows Falls, VT.

Americas best cancer hospital

Best Hospitals: Cancer

The U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals rankings cover 170 hospitals in 16 adult specialties. 50 children's hospitals are covered, using a new and enhanced methodology, in general pediatrics and 6 pediatric specialties. The unranked hospitals in this specialty are listed in alphabetical order after the ranked hospitals.

For information on the different types of cancer, as well as causes, treatment, and symptoms of the disease, visit the U.S. News & World

Brain Tumor

Most brain tumors in children are primary tumors, meaning they arise in the brain. In adults, most are metastatic or secondary tumors, meaning the cancer has spread to the brain from the breast, lung, or other part of the body. Nearly 1 in 4 people with cancer will get a secondary brain tumor.

Breast Cancer

Each year, about 215,000 women in the United States are found to have invasive breast cancer. Changes that should be promptly evaluated are the appearance of a lump in the breast or underarm, flakiness around the nipple, or a reddening of the skin.

UAB Hospital

The University of Alabama Hospital (more commonly referred to as UAB Hospital), is a Level I trauma center hospital located in Birmingham, Alabama.

It is located in the Medical Center District on the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) campus on Birmingham's Southside. UAB Hospital is a 908-bed facility that provides patients with a complete range of primary and specialty care services. It is Alabama's major tertiary care center and a modern medical complex serving approximately 35,000 patients annually.

Ratings

UAB Hospital also serves as the primary teaching hospital for the UAB School of Medicine. Seven UAB Hospital specialty programs are among the nation’s top 50 — five are in the top 25 — of the 16 categories evaluated at America's 5,189 hospitals in 2006 by U.S. News & World Report. With its seven ranked programs, UAB Hospital was one of only 176 hospitals, or about 3 percent of U.S. institutions studied —and the only hospital in Alabama — to rank high enough in even one specialty to make the magazine’s national "Best Hospitals" list. The seven specialties are: rheumatology (6th); heart and heart surgery (14th); gynecology (14th); kidney disease (17th); cancer (23rd); and orthopedics (47th).

The 2005-2006 list of "Best Doctors in America" includes 234 UAB physicians, comprising more than two-thirds of all specialists from the Birmingham metropolitan area in the Best Doctors database. Best Doctors is an independent, knowledge-based medical referral service located in Aiken, S.C. Its surveys ask peer physicians, "If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer them?" Only about 3 to 5 percent of all specialists worldwide make the list, which currently names 33,000 in the U.S.—including 345 physicians in the Birmingham area.

UAB Hospital received a 2005-2006 Consumer Choice Award from the National Research Corporation (NRC). It is among just 207 of 3,000 hospitals, nationally, to receive the recognition. The award is bestowed upon hospitals that receive highest marks among consumers for their quality and image, based on a nationwide survey of more than 200,000 households representing some 400,000 consumers. UAB Hospital is the only Birmingham-area hospital to receive the award this year. The recognition places UAB Hospital alongside such institutions as Johns Hopkins, Duke University Medical Center, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, the Mayo Clinic, and Yale-New Haven Hospital.

History

The hospital was established in 1945 as the teaching hospital for the University of Alabama School of Medicine, which was moved from the University of Alabama main campus in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Birmingham. It was originally located in the Jefferson and Hillman Hospitals, which were acquired by the University of Alabama Board of Trustees from Jefferson County. The rapid growth of the Greater Birmingham area led the hospital to continue to expand to some 20 surrounding medical buildings.

In November 2004, UAB Hospital opened its new 885,000-foot, 11-story building named North Pavilion. It includes 37 operating suites, two procedure rooms, three medical surgical units, four intensive care units — trauma and burn intensive care, surgical intensive care, neuroscience intensive care, and cardiovascular intensive care, and a 38,000 square foot emergency department. Its emergency department is located on the first floor, along with the large public lobby and front door. The second floor serves as the main concourse into the UAB Hospital complex with its primary entrance on 4th Avenue South. The new hospital is equipped with state-of-the-art digital and wireless technology. Operating rooms contain voice-activated video technology allowing the surgeon to view x-rays, ECGs or pathology specimens without having to break scrub or leave the room.

Sarasota Memorial Hospital

Sarasota Memorial Hospital is an 806-bed regional medical center located in Sarasota County on Florida's Gulf Coast. With about 3,000 staff members, 750 physicians and more than 1,000 volunteers, it is the second-largest acute care public hospital in Florida and Sarasota County's second-largest employer. A community hospital, Sarasota Memorial is a full-service facility, with specialized expertise in heart, vascular, cancer, neuroscience services, outpatient services, home health and long-term care among its many programs. Sarasota Memorial is the only provider of obstetrical services and Level III neonatal intensive care in Sarasota County. The hospital, founded in 1925, was one of the first non-academic hospitals in the nation to develop a clinical research service that conducts studies in lung disease, cardiology, vascular surgery, geriatric medicine and many other specialty areas.

History & Overview

The hospital – first named Sarasota Hospital – was the community’s first modern hospital. It opened its doors on Nov. 2, 1925, replacing a temporary "tent hospital" and six-bed facility that had been used to treat patients.

Local residents, mostly women, launched a year-long campaign to raise the $40,000 needed to build the 32-bed facility.

Today, that modest 32-bed facility run by the county's welfare association has grown into the Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, a regional referral center with an 806-bed hospital, long- and short-term skilled nursing center, home health services, walk-in urgent care centers, laboratory and imaging centers and specialty campuses stretching beyond the county lines.

National Quality Rankings

In recent years, the hospital has repeatedly ranked among America's 50 "Best Hospitals" for quality care. In its yearly study of hospitals nationwide, U.S.News & World Report determines the best 50 hospitals in different specialties. Out of 5,462 hospitals evaluated in 2007, only 173 – just 3 percent – ranked in one or more of 16 specialties evaluated. Sarasota Memorial placed among the best in two: cancer care and geriatrics. It's the fourth consecutive year the hospital has been ranked in the magazine.


Florida Select "Comprehensive Stroke Center"

Florida’s Agency of Healthcare Administration has listed Sarasota Memorial as the only “Comprehensive Stroke Center” in the southwest Florida region (as of October 2007), singling out the hospital as a preferred provider for people facing the greatest challenges in stroke care. The designation follows the system’s certification with distinction as a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The honor, which was bestowed in October 2005, demonstrates that the System’s stroke care program follows national standards and guidelines that can significantly improve outcomes for stroke patients. Florida uses Joint Commission certification as a means to designate preferred providers of primary stroke care, allowing paramedics and emergency medical technicians to bypass nondesignated hospitals and take stroke victims straight to a specially designated stroke center.


Magnet Nursing Designation

Since 2003, Sarasota Memorial also has been awarded Magnet Nursing Services Recognition, the nation’s highest honor for excellence in nursing. Given by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center, the premier authority on nursing, Magnet recognition means that Sarasota Memorial provides a supportive environment that attracts and retains the best and brightest caregivers. Sarasota Memorial is the only hospital in the region to earn this designation. To be recognized as a Magnet hospital, applicants must pass a rigorous review, and meet criteria indicating superiority in all aspects of nursing services. Independently sponsored research projects suggest that Magnet facilities have positive outcomes for patients, nurses and workplaces.

Advanced Technology

In 2007, Sarasota Memorial surgeons became leaders in the field of robotic surgery, using the daVinci-S robotic surgery system in an ever widening choice of minimally invasive surgeries, including cardiac, prostate and gynecological oncology procedures.

A National Benchmark

In 2006, the hospital gained national attention for an emergency care initiative that resulted in a 30-minute wait time guarantee for all patients, eliminating ambulance diversions while significantly increasing patient volume and satisfaction. The initiative has eliminated the problem of overcrowding and long waits in the hospital's ER – a problem plaguing hospitals across the country.

Safety Net Hospital

Despite its tremendous growth and all its honors, Sarasota County’s only publicly owned hospital remains the only not-for-profit hospital in the surrounding 4-county region and provider of safety net of care for the community.

Sarasota Memorial Facts and Figures

-- Number of beds: 806

-- Average length of stay: 4.96 days

-- Adult admissions: 27,337

-- Emergency Care Center registrations: Nearly 81,000 (Our ECC is one of the busiest in Florida.)

-- Total births: 3,574

-- Number of physicians on staff: 737

-- Outpatient registrations: 343,828

-- The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

-- Sarasota Memorial provides about $100 million in mission services annually.

-- The health system is governed by the nine elected members of the Sarasota County Public Hospital Board.


Facilities

Sarasota Memorial's main campus is located at 1700 S. Tamiami Trail in Sarasota, Fla. The campus includes the comprehensive acute-care Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Emergency Care Center, Heart & Vascular Institute, Bayside Center for Behavioral Health, Cape Outpatient Surgery Center and an array of outpatient services.

Outpatient centers include:

-- The Institute For Advanced Medicine, which features the Neuroscience Center of Excellence and Healthplex, the area's first fully integrated medical fitness center, as well as Rehabilitation, Radiology Services and Lab Services. The Institute is located at 5880 Rand Blvd, off Clark Road, one mile west of Interstate 75.

-- The Sarasota Memorial Health Care Center at Blackburn Point, at 929 S. Tamiami Trail, Osprey, FL, includes the Comprehensive Pain Center, Lab, Radiology/Imaging/Xray, First Physicians Group of Sarasota practice, Diabetes Treatment Services, Comprehensive Bariatric Program, "Eating Healthy for Life" Weight Loss Program and Dermatology.

-- Sarasota Memorial Health Care Center at University Parkway, at 5350 University Parkway, Sarasota, FL, includes Lab, Radiology/Imaging/Xray, First Physicians Group of Sarasota practice, Rehabilitation and Pain Care Center.

-- Sarasota Memorial's Walk-In Medical Centers, which combine the nationally ranked urgent care services provided by Sarasota Memorial's board-certified emergency and family practice physicians with a full range of health services to meet family members' medical needs. The centers are open 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday. No appointments needed. Two convenient Sarasota locations: 2401 University Parkway and 6130 South Tamiami Trail.

Pensacola Hospital

The Pensacola Hospital (also known as the Old Sacred Heart Hospital) is a historic hospital in Pensacola, Florida, United States. It is located at 1010 North 12th Avenue. On February 16, 1982, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

History

Aaron Ritz, a son of one of the owners, gave permission to use his words to further describe the building:

Pensacola Hospital, now known as the historic Sacred Heart Hospital, opened in September of 1915 as the first Catholic hospital in Florida. The Daughters of Charity, a religious order dating back to 1633, invested over $400,000.00 into building and opening this facility. Evans Brothers Construction, of Birmingham, Alabama, took one year to build this late Gothic Revival building for the Daughters to provide the residents of Pensacola with better health care.

This structure is both a medical and architectural landmark. Before this hospital, Pensacola had only a scattering of local clinics in converted houses. Doctors would send patients with serious cases as far away as New Orleans for complicated procedures not available in Pensacola. With this facility, Pensacola had the first surgical, radiological, bacterial, and therapeutical facilities in Florida. Following the Daughters of Charity motto of "service to all", the third level of the east wing was dedicated entirely to the Creole and Colored population so that they could also receive hospital care. A.O. Von Herbulis, a native of Austria who immigrated to the United States, designed the hospital. Using the vocabulary of English Gothic architecture, with elements such as the Tudor arches on the ends, the stone work around the front entrance, and the embattlement at the parapet, Von Herbulis created a lasting monument to health care.

In 1948, following the original desire of Mother Margaret O'Keefe, Pensacola Hospital's name changed to Sacred Heart Hospital of Pensacola. In 1965, the hospital moved its operations to north Ninth Avenue. After the hospital left, a private school for Liberal Arts used the building from 1969 through 1978, but lack of maintenance forced the school to abandon the building. In 1980, Tower East Group, Inc., purchased the property to preserve the historic hospital for the future.

Description

The public areas are open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, for touring. The building has several restaurants and a local theater company, as well as many private offices.

Tower East Group, Inc., a private enterprise owned by partners B. Neal Armstrong and Stephen F. Ritz, has been restoring and renovating this Late Gothic Revival landmark since March of 1980. National Park Guidelines for historic preservation are followed voluntarily; however, no Federal or State funding has ever been received. Structurally, the building has received very few alterations in its history. The exterior stonework retains its Gothic appearance to this day and other original architectural details, such as the elaborate oak entrance doors, remain.

Eastman Dental Hospital

The Eastman Dental Hospital is a specialist hospital in London, within the University College London Hospitals NHS Trust since 1998. It was formerly known as the Eastman Dental Clinic and shares premises with the Eastman Dental Foundation.

It has no in-patient facilities.

The hospital is sited on the north eastern edge of the Bloomsbury district of London, close to Kings Cross railway station.

Origins

In 1926, George Eastman donated £200,000 (plus another £100,000 from two other principle benefactors) for the establishment of a specialist dental and oral health clinic for the benefit of poor children of Central London. The Eastman Dental Clinic was opened in 20 November 1931 by the American Ambassador. Until 1947/48, the clinic was integrated into the Royal Free Hospital. Afterwards, as an independent institution, it was established as the postgraduate dental institute of the Postgraduate Medical Federation.

The Objects of the Institute were stated as follows;

The training of consultants, specialists and teachers, in various branches of dentistry. To provide facilities for and encourage research by members of staff and students. To provide clinical and laboratory facilities and instruction for candidates working for higher degrees or diplomas. To provide short courses for general practitioners, in so far as it is possible to do so without interfering with the main objects as set out above.

The future role of the Institute and Hospital in national and worldwide postgraduate dental education and training was created with the establishment of the Faculty of Dental Surgery, in 1948, at the Royal College of Surgeons by Professor Robert Bradlaw, and the creation of the Dental Fellowship examination.

After the creation of the National Health Service, the need for free primary dental care was met nationally and the Eastman Clinic ended its routine treatment (but retaining a casualty service) and changed its name to the Eastman Dental Hospital.