The Alfred Hospital

There is also a Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. See Alfred (disambiguation) for other uses of the name.

The Alfred
The Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne
Geography
Location	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates	37°50′46″S 144°58′58″E / 37.8461°S 144.9827°E / -37.8461; 144.9827Coordinates: 37°50′46″S 144°58′58″E / 37.8461°S 144.9827°E / -37.8461; 144.9827
Organisation
Affiliated university	Monash University
Services
Beds	390^[1]
History
Founded	1871
Links
Website	www.alfred.org.au

The Alfred, also known as Alfred Hospital or The Alfred Hospital, is a major hospital in Melbourne, Victoria. It is the second oldest hospital in Victoria, and the oldest Melbourne hospital still operating on its original site.^[2] It is located at the corner of Commercial and Punt Roads, Prahran, opposite Fawkner Park.

History

Moves were already underway to establish a second hospital when Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, in Australia on a royal visit, was shot in an unsuccessful assassination attempt. The new "Hospital by the Yarra" (as well as Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital) was named for him. It was founded in 1871. In 1957, The Alfred was the first hospital in Australia to place a patient on cardiopulmonary bypass to treat complex cardiac lesions. It is a major teaching hospital affiliated with Monash University.

Services

The Alfred Hospital provides specialty services in the treatment of cancer, asthma, psychiatry, and allergies, in cardiology, and in neurosurgery; houses the largest intensive care unit in Australia; and contains many unique state health facilities, including adult cystic fibrosis services and the only adult burns centre in Victoria and Tasmania. It has always been a leader in offering new treatments and services. The Alfred is Victoria's only Adult Heart and Lung transplantation service and Australia's only Paediatric Lung transplantation service. The hospital is administered by the Metropolitan Health Service Alfred Health. In addition to being one of the two major trauma centres in Victoria, The Alfred has a state of the art helipad, located over Commercial Road.

Specialty units

Some of the specialty units within The Alfred Hospital include:

Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit
Allergy , Asthma and Clinical Immunology - unique in Australia
Helen Macpherson Smith Burns Unit - unique in Victoria
Infectious Diseases Unit - includes state HIV/AIDS service
Intensive Care Unit
Lung Transplant Unit - second largest in the world
Psychiatry Unit accommodating 60 acute inpatients, including two statewide APICCS beds
State Major Trauma Service - including road trauma centre
The Heart Centre - World Health Organization Centre for Research and Training
Largest Mechanical Circulatory Support Service in Australasia (Ventricular Assist Devices)
Largest Adult ECMO centre in Australia
Largest Hyperbaric unit in the Southern hemisphere
William Buckland Radiotherapy Centre - Specialists in Brachytherapy, Stereotactic Radiosurgery and General External Beam Therapy.

References

External links

Hospitals in Victoria

General/Acute/Emergency	The Alfred Hospital Austin Hospital Box Hill Hospital Epworth Eastern Epworth Hospital Knox Private Hospital Maroondah Hospital Mitcham Private Hospital Monash Medical Centre The Northern Hospital Royal Children's Hospital The Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne Royal Melbourne Hospital Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital Royal Women's Hospital St Vincent's Hospital St Vincents & Mercy Private Hospital Sunshine Hospital Western Hospital, Footscray

Long term / rehab / outpatient	Frankston Hospital Frances Perry Private Hospital Freemasons Hospital Mercy Hospital for Women Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute St Vincents & Mercy Private Hospital Werribee Mercy Hospital

Psychiatric	The Alfred Hospital Austin Hospital Box Hill Hospital Frankston Hospital Royal Melbourne Hospital Maroondah Hospital Mitcham Private Hospital Monash Medical Centre St Vincent's Hospital Thomas Embling Hospital Werribee Mercy Hospital

Research / Teaching	The Alfred Hospital Austin Hospital Box Hill Hospital Epworth Hospital Frankston Hospital Monash Children's Hospital Monash Medical Centre Royal Children's Hospital Royal Melbourne Hospital Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital Royal Women's Hospital St Vincent's Hospital

Defunct hospitals	Ararat Asylum Beechworth Asylum Brierly Fairfield Hospital Heatherton Sanitoriam Kew Asylum Lakeside Mental Hospital Larundel Mont Park Asylum Mordialloc-Cheltenham Community Hospital Preston & Northcote Community Hospital Prince Henry's Hospital Queen Victoria Hospital Royal Park Sunbury Asylum Yarra Bend Asylum

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