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Description

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TQEH
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is a 350 bed public hospital which provides a comprehensive range of specialist and diagnostic treatment services to a population base of approximately 250000 people living primarily in the western suburbs of Adelaide South Australia

About Us
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital provides health services by means of inpatient outpatient and emergency services using the most modern available methods of assessment and treatment in medical surgical mental health allied health and other techniques Emphasis is placed on continuity of care before and after hospitalisation and care is coordinated by a multidisciplinary team

In addition to the main hospital services The Queen Elizabeth Hospital provides community based services which includes Mental Health Services and the Pregnancy Advisory Centre Diabetic House is located in a nearby hospital owned home and a satellite renal dialysis centre is located at Wayville

TQEH is one of South Australias leading acute referral teaching and research centres affiliated with the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia with professorial chairs in Surgery Medicine Renal Gastoenterology Anaesthesia and Cardiology

The hospital is widely recognised for its achievements in such areas as renal medicine cardiology haematologyoncology invitro fertilisation and surgery It was the first teaching hospital in South Australia to be accredited by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards which indicates that the hospital complies with national standards of care

Mission Statement
We provide a wide range of health services primarily for the northwestern region of metropolitan Adelaide We aim for our care to be ethical customerfocused accessible seamless and integrated with other agencies benchmarked for bestpractice and focused on health outcomes

We actively pursue advance disseminate and apply health science knowledge for the improvement of health status for all communities This is achieved through striving for excellence and innovation in the teaching and research programs that we manage together with the Universities

We aim to continue as a leading teaching health service in this country with the full knowledge that it is the quality and capability of our staff that determines our reputation and vitality

We place high value on excellence innovation efficiency and effectiveness

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History

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History
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital was built in 1954 as an urgent postwar project to cope with the needs of the rapidly developing western suburbs of Adelaide

Although the original intention was to build a general public hospital planning was extended to include a maternity wing The hospital received its first maternity patient on 6 September 1954 and for the next four years accepted only maternity patients while the general hospital was being constructed A ceremony to officially open the hospital was performed by Her Majesty The Queen Mother on 5th March 1958 however it was not until 3 May 1959 following completion of the general hospital building that the hospital accepted its first general patient

On 24th March 1954 Her Majesty the Queen by special proclamation granted permission for the hospital to be named The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and it remains the only hospital in the British world to be named as such

It was the second hospital in Australia to be honoured with the granting of a Coat of Arms from the College of Arms London On the Coat of Arms it reads Petimus Docemus Curamus We Seek We Teach We Heal which reflects the philosophy of the hospital