Westmead Hospital

Westmead Hospital
Western Sydney Local Health District
Westmead Hospital
Geography
Location	Cnr Hawkesbury Road and Darcy Road, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates	33°48′16″S 150°59′19″E / 33.8045°S 150.9886°E / -33.8045; 150.9886
Organisation
Care system	Medicare (Australia)
Funding	Public hospital
Type	District General Teaching
Affiliated university	University of Sydney
Network	NSW Health
Services
Emergency department	Yes Major Trauma Centre
Beds	958[1]
Helipads
Helipad	ICAO: YWST and YXWS
Number Length Surface ft m 1 concrete 2 concrete
History
Opened	1978; 46 years ago (1978)
Links
Website	Westmead Hospital
Lists	Hospitals in Australia

Westmead Hospital is a major teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia. Opened on 10 November 1978, the 975-bed hospital forms part of the Western Sydney Local Health District,^[2] and is a teaching hospital of Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney.

The hospital serves a population of 1.85 million people and is located on one of the largest health and hospital campuses in Australia.^[3] In 2016/17, Westmead Hospital provided more than 1.5m occasions of care to outpatients, in addition to approximately 107,000 inpatients. Annually, there are over 21,000 medical operations, almost 5,800 births, and more than 75,000 presentations to emergency department.^[4]

Westmead Hospital is located on the junction of Darcy and Hawkesbury Roads in Westmead and provides a full range of tertiary medical and dental services except for paediatrics which is serviced by the adjacent Children's Hospital at Westmead, relocated from Camperdown to Westmead in 1995. The Hospital includes a large Dental Clinical School and extensive clinical pathology and medical research facilities. From 1995 to 2017 the statewide NETS (NSW), the Newborn and paediatric Emergency Transport Service was hosted at Westmead Hospital, prior to moving to make way for a new acute services block for the hospital.

Located nearby are the Cumberland Hospital (providing outpatient and inpatient psychiatric care) and Westmead Private Hospital, a division of Ramsay Health Care.