Royal Hobart Hospital

The Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH) is Tasmania’s largest hospital and the major referral centre. As the major centre of clinical teaching and research, it has a strong collaborative relationship with the University of Tasmania and other institutions.

The RHH provides acute, sub acute, mental health and aged care inpatient and ambulatory services to a population of approximately 240,000 people in the Southern Region and currently operates from a maximum base of 550 physical beds, including 460 acute overnight and 90 day beds. The RHH has 2,190 full time equivalent staff or paid headcount of 3,015.

A comprehensive range of general and specialty medical and surgical services are provided including many statewide services such as cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, extensive burns treatment, hyperbaric medicine, neonatal & paediatric intensive care and high risk obstetrics.

Critical care services are often the patients’ first point of contact and are divided into intensive care services and emergency medicine services. The RHH provides a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week Emergency Department (ED), and critical care comprises a nine-bed Intensive Care Unit (including cardiothoracic intensive care), and five-bed High Dependency Unit. The new ED was opened in 2007 and includes 41 treatment spaces/ resuscitation bays, an assessment and planning unit and a short stay observation unit.

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