Hospital Information

Modbury Hospital is a 174-bed, acute care teaching hospital that provides inpatient, outpatient and emergency services to a population of nearly 200,000 people living primarily in Adelaide’s north eastern suburbs. 

Modbury Hospital opened in 1973, with the Education Centre built in 1979, followed by the Woodleigh House Adult  mental health unit in 1980. In 1995, Modbury Hospital management was transferred from public sector management to the private organisation Healthscope, and was later returned to public sector management on 1 July 2007. 

Committed to working in collaboration and partnership, Modbury Hospital is affiliated with the University of Adelaide and enjoys a close relationship with the general practitioners in its catchment area.

The hospital provides a range of general medicine and general surgery services and has a specific focus on rehabilitation, older persons and palliative care service.

The hospital is rapidly moving towards the goal of the SA Health Care Plan, which incorportaes increasing surgical throughout. The hospital also provides outpatient and Emergency Department services.

On 1 July 2011, Modbury Hospital became a part of the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN). By 2016 NALHN, which also includes Lyell McEwin Hospital, will service almost half a million South Australians and currently employs in excess of 3.700 staff that provide high quality patient care, education and research.

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