The Alfred Hospital
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:''There is also a [[Royal Prince Alfred Hospital]] in [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]]. See [[Alfred]] for other uses of the name.''
[[Image:The Alfred Hospital Melbourne 1.JPG|thumb|300px|The Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne]]
'''The Alfred Hospital''', also known as '''Alfred Hospital''' or '''The Alfred''', is the second oldest hospital in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], and the oldest [[Melbourne]] hospital still operating on its original site.
Moves were already underway to establish a second hospital when [[Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Prince Alfred]], [[Duke of Edinburgh]], in Australia on a royal visit, was shot in an unsuccessful assassination attempt. The new "Hospital by the Yarra" (as well as Sydney's [[Royal Prince Alfred Hospital]]) was named for him. It was founded in [[1871]].
The Alfred Hospital provides specialty services in the treatment of [[cancer]], [[asthma]], [[psychiatry]], and [[allergy|allergies]], in [[cardiology]], and in [[neurosurgery]]; houses the largest [[Intensive care medicine|intensive care unit]] in Australia; and contains many unique state health facilities, including adult cystic fibrosis services and the only adult burns centre in Victoria and Tasmania. It has always been a leader in offering new treatments and services. In 1957 the Alfred was the first hospital in Australia to place a patient on Cardiopulmonary Bypass to treat complex cardiac lesions. The Alfred is Victoria's only Adult Heart and Lung transplantation service and Australia's only Paediatric Lung transplantation service. The hospital is administered by the Metropolitan Health Service Bayside Health. It is located at Commercial and Punt Roads, opposite [[Fawkner Park, Melbourne|Fawkner Park]], in Prahran. In addition to being one of the two major trauma centres in Victoria, the Alfred has a state of the art helipad, located over Commercial Road.
==Specialty units==
Some of the specialty units within The Alfred Hospital include:
*Adult [[Cystic fibrosis|Cystic Fibrosis]] Unit
*Allergy[http://www.crazyjohns.com.au/aboutus/ilhan-food-allergy-foundation.aspx], Asthma and [[Clinical immunology|Clinical Immunology]] - unique in Australia
*Helen Macpherson Smith [[Burn (injury)|Burns Unit]] - unique in Victoria
*[[Infectious disease|Infectious Diseases]] Unit - includes state [[HIV]]\[[AIDS]] service
*[[Organ transplant|Lung Transplant]] Unit - second largest in the world
* [[Psychiatry]] Unit accommodating 60 acute inpatients
*State Major Trauma Service - including [[Car accident|road trauma]] centre
*The Heart Centre - [[World Health Organization]] Centre for Research and Training
*Largest Mechanical Circulatory Support Service in Australasia (Ventricular Assist Devices)
*Largest Adult ECMO centre in Australia
*Largest [[Hyperbaric]] unit in the Southern hemisphere
==See also==
*[[List of hospitals in Australia]]
*[[:Category:Healthcare in Australia|Healthcare in Australia]]
==External links==
*[http://www.alfred.org.au The Alfred Hospital official website]
*[http://www.alfredresearch.org The Alfred Research and Ethics Unit]
*[http://www.baysidehealth.org.au Bayside Health official website]
*[http://alfredECMO.com.au Alfred Adult ECMO Course]
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