St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital

About

St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital, Brisbane. First class treatment. World class results.

Story

St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital is one of Australia's leading hospitals providing first class treatments and achieving world class results.

St Andrew’s provides the best possible care and leadership in all spheres of activity of the hospital. 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.

Mission

Our values are the principles, standards and qualities that characterise the way in which we do our work. UnitingCare Queensland believes the following values are fundamental to the work we do and expresses the mission of God by being present in people's lives to offer hope, healing and transformation:

To bring COMPASSION through our understanding and empathy for others we bring holistic care, hope and inspiration.

To RESPECT our patients and staff. We accept and honour diversity, uniqueness and the contribution of others.

To promote JUSTICE. We commit to focus on the needs of the people we serve and to work for a fair, just and sustainable society.

To WORK TOGETHER. We value and appreciate the richness of individual contributions, partnerships and teamwork.

To LEAD THROUGH LEARNING. St Andrew's culture encourages innovation and supports learning.

Products

Inpatient

Cardiac surgery
Cardiology
Ear, nose and throat
General medicine
General surgery
Gynaecology
Neuroscience
Opthalmology
Oral and maxillofacial
Orthopaedics
Paediatrics and paediatric surgery
Plastic surgery
Rehabilitation
Thoracic medicine
Urology
Vascular surgery

Outpatient

• Cardiac investigations
• Cardiac rehabilitation
• Day rehabilitation unit
• Emergency Centre
• Gastroenterology
• Nuclear medicine
• Radiology