The Westmead Private Hospital is a tertiary level, 192 bed teaching hospital that is co-located with the Westmead Hospital and Westmead Children’s Hospital and is a leading teaching hospital of the Western Clinical School of the University of Sydney. Located in the Westmead Health Precinct, Westmead Private caters for a broad range of health needs, caring for the community of Western Sydney and beyond.
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The Westmead Private Hospital is a tertiary level, 192 bed teaching hospital that is co-located with the Westmead Hospital and Westmead Children’s Hospital and is a leading teaching hospital of the Western Clinical School of the University of Sydney. Located in the Westmead Health Precinct, Westmead Private caters for a broad range of health needs, caring for the community of Western Sydney and beyond.
Opening in October 2000, Westmead Private is owned and operated by the global health care group, Ramsay Health Care. The Westmead Private Hospital provides a range of clinical services from day surgery procedures through to complex surgeries. Their highly experienced surgeons work closely with a team of nurses and medical professionals to provide exceptional care to all patients.
Westmead Private offers two state-of-the-art cardiac catheter suites including highly sophisticated, automated digital medical imaging equipment. Allowing them to treat a wide range of cardiac conditions and perform the very latest tests and procedures in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease.
A leading private hospital, it is one of three hospitals in Australia that is accredited as a Centre of Excellence in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Additionally, Westmead Private’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU), admits more than 1500 patients annually, making it one of the busiest private ICU’s in Australia.
Westmead Private is also an accredited educational provider with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) offering a range of high quality GP education for the past 15 years. They also offer ‘meet and greet’ tailored education sessions for GPs and Practice Nurses, and is working towards improving the clinical pathway from GP and their patients to access specialty care through their GP Direct Access line.
Westmead Private Hospital has proudly achieved many firsts in Australia, including:
- Partial nephrectomy using state-of-the-art robotic technology with firefly imaging
- Hysterectomy via single site incision
- Single site robotic assisted sacrocolpopexy for Pelvic Floor Prolapse
- Implantation of the world’s smallest cardiac monitor, Medtronic Reveal LINQ
- Totally robotic transanal Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR) of a sessile polyp
- First lumber fusion in the Southern Hemisphere using the ROSA robot
Their facilities include 13 operating theatres, 2 state-of-the-art cardiac catheterisation laboratories, 23 bed cardiac, vascular and spinal ward, 16 bed Intensive Care Unit, 7 Birthing Suites, 14 cot Special Care Nursery, 8 bed Paediatric Ward, and a Day Surgery Unit.
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