Princess Alexandra Hospital

The Princess Alexandra Hospital is on Ipswich Road in Woolloongabba, Australia. It is one of the major hospitals in Brisbane and is a teaching hospital of the University of Queensland. It is a tertiary level teaching hospital with all major medical and surgical specialities onsite except for obstetrics, gynaecology and paediatrics. A new building was opened in 2000 to replace the ageing red-brick PA Hospital complex built in the 1950s, which had replaced the previous 1901 Diamantina Hospital for Chronic Diseases, built on the site of the original 1883 Diamantina Orphanage, named after Diamantina Bowen, wife of the first Governor of Queensland.

The hospital was opened by and named after HRH Princess Alexandra of the United Kingdom in 1959, to mark the Centennial of Queensland. It has a catchment population of 1.6 million people with 780 beds and 5800 full-time equivalent staff. In 2005, the hospital received Magnet Recognition.

Units

Queensland's spinal injuries unit and the liver and kidney transplantation services are based at the hospital. The Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit opened in 1998. In the following years the unit performed more than 10,000 operations.

Emergency department expansion

From 2009 to 2011 major expansion works were undertaken, including the doubling in size of the emergency department, the construction of a helipad and new oncology bunkers for cancer treatment.