Box Hill Hospital
| Box Hill Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Eastern Health | |
 The new hospital, under construction. | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Coordinates | 37°49′00″S 145°08′00″E / 37.8167°S 145.1333°ECoordinates: 37°49′00″S 145°08′00″E / 37.8167°S 145.1333°E |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Medicare |
| Hospital type | Teaching, General |
| Affiliated university | Monash University, La Trobe University, Deakin University |
| Services | |
| Beds | 398 inpatient beds |
| History | |
| Founded | 1956 |
| Links | |
| Website | easternhealth.org.au/ |
Box Hill Hospital is a teaching hospital in Melbourne, Victoria. It is one of the seven hospitals that are governed within the Eastern Health network which provides health care services across the Eastern metropolitan area of Victoria.
Upton House, the psychiatric treatment facility within Box Hill Hospital, has developed a vicious reputation for mistreatment and abuse of patients, specifically Garth Daniels. Garth's case made headlines late 2015 due to him receiving forced ECT (electroshock therapy) against his wishes. Mr Daniels is in the process of taking this issue to court.[1][2][3] Garth's case has been fundamental to whistleblowing on abuse within the psychiatric system in Australia, specifically highlighting issues with forced 'consent'.
History
The idea of a local hospital to serve the Box Hill area first surfaced around 1937, with a 4.5-acre (1.8 ha) site in Nelson Road being acquired from the Rodgerson estate in 1945. Construction started in early 1949 but because of funding issues the hospital did not open until April 1956.[4] Its original name was the Box Hill and District Hospital.
Services
The Box Hill hospital provides the following services:
- Emergency care
- general and specialist medicine
- intensive care
- mental health services for children, adolescents and adults
- maternity services
- post acute care programs
- specialist surgery.
The Box Hill Hospital Redevelopment Project
On 9 December 2009, the Victorian Labor government approved $407.5 million in funding for the redevelopment of the Box Hill Hospital. Plans for a new building to be constructed over the car park at the rear of the hospital and the Clive Ward building area are underway, with works expected to be completed in 2014. The total area of the new building will be over 32,000 square meters. The expanded hospital will accommodate 621 beds, an increase of more than 200, making it one of the largest hospitals in Victoria.[5]
New facilities
The new block will enable the hospital to provide care to around 7,000 additional people each year and will include:
- a larger emergency department
- a dedicated precinct for women's and children's services
- a new 18-bed intensive care unit
- additional inpatients wards
- ten new operating theatres
- critical acute services
See also
References
- ↑ "Mental health patient sues hospital over 'shock therapy'". ABC News. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
- ↑ "Is it ever acceptable to apply electro convulsive therapy against a patient's will?". Retrieved 2016-04-07.
- ↑ "State examining treatment of man subjected to multiple cases of shock therapy". The Age. 2016-02-14. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
- ↑ Lemon, Andrew (1978). Box Hill. Lothian Publishing. p. 201. ISBN 0-85091-064-1.
- ↑ Service & Capital Planning Section of the Victorian State Government, Department of Health, Australia, "Box Hill Hospital Redevelopment Project", The Victorian Government Health Information, 7 February 2011