Royal Adelaide Hospital
Hospital in South Australia, Australia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH), colloquially known by its initials or pronounced as "the Rah", is South Australia's largest hospital, owned by the state government as part of Australia's public health care system. The RAH provides tertiary health care services for South Australia and provides secondary care clinical services to residents of Adelaide's central metropolitan area, which includes the inner suburbs.
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Location | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia | ||||||||||||||
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Care system | Medicare | ||||||||||||||
Type | General, Teaching | ||||||||||||||
Affiliated university | University of Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
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Emergency department | Yes | ||||||||||||||
Beds | 800 | ||||||||||||||
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Helipad | ICAO: YXAA | ||||||||||||||
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Opened | Original building 1840; new building 2017 | ||||||||||||||
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Website | www |
The original Adelaide Hospital was built in 1840 at the eastern end of North Terrace, Adelaide, with its first building superseded in 1856 and many alterations and additions over the following 175 years. It was prefixed by the "Royal" in 1939. In 2017 it was replaced by the new hospital, built at the western end of North Terrace. The new hospital is the most expensive building[1] ever built in Australia, and the most expensive hospital[2] ever built anywhere in the world, at US$2.44 billion in construction and equipment costs. The redevelopment on the site of the old RAH is known as Lot Fourteen.