St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital is one of Australia's leading hospitals providing first class treatments and achieving world class results. We have earned a reputation as a first class hospital particularly for complex clinical procedures with one of the highest patient complexities in Australia. St Andrew’s is a world leader in patient outcomes for many of our specialties. We achieve this by attracting the best staff and medical practitioners and carefully auditing and improving on the outcomes of our treatments. The hospital is ranked as one of Australia's top-performing hospitals by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS). In 2010 St Andrew's completed a major $76 million redevelopment launching the hospital into a new and exciting era. As a result the hospital now comprises state-of-the-art buildings, facilities and equipment including new theatres, intensive care ward, rehabilitation facilities and wards. A few facts about the hospital in 2010-2011:
• 23,385 patients admitted - 9,741 day patients and 13,644 in-patients
• 18,309 procedures performed - 12,708 theatre procedures, 2,480 endoscopic procedures and 3,121 catheter laboratory procedures
• 11,415 patients seen in the Emergency Centre and 3,021 admissions
• 1,338,022 minutes operating
• 705 tonnes of laundry
• 233,669 meals served
• 1.3 million staff hours worked. Through the work of our staff and doctors and in collaboration with St Andrew’s Medical Institute we have, and will continue to evaluate, benchmark and improve what we do to enhance the quality of our patient’s lives. St Andrew’s demonstrates results that are statistically among the best in the world and consistently measure and exceed US, European and Australian benchmarks for patient outcomes. It is in this way we fulfill our own motivation to work in healthcare and our role as a Uniting Church organisation.
