Crown Street Women's Hospital

Crown Street Women's Hospital
Crown Street Women's Hospital
Geography
Location	Crown Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates	33°53′01″S 151°12′51″E / 33.883645°S 151.214133°E / -33.883645; 151.214133
Organisation
Care system	Public Medicare (AU)
Type	Teaching
Affiliated university	University of Sydney
Services
Speciality	Women's hospital
History
Opened	1893[1]
Closed	1983, services transferred to Westmead Hospital
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Australia

Crown Street Women's Hospital (now-closed) was once the largest maternity hospital in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was located at 351 Crown Street on the corner of Albion Streets, Surry Hills.^[2]

The hospital was one of several stand-alone maternity hospitals in Sydney, none of which remain. It opened in 1893, and was closed in 1983. During its 90-year life, it trained hundreds of midwives and doctors, and was a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney. Many thousands of Sydney's residents were born there. When Westmead Hospital opened in Sydney's west, Crown Street Hospital's maternity facilities were moved there, along with the general medical and surgical departments of Sydney Hospital on Macquarie Street, and the hospital was closed.

The Canonbury annex was demolished around 1983, with the site redeveloped as part of McKell Park.^[3]