St_John_of_God_Frankston_Rehabilitation_Hospital

St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital

St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital

Hospital in victoria, Australia

St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital is a 60-bed hospital providing specialist inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation care.[1]

Quick Facts Geography, Location ...

Located in Frankston, Victoria, the facility is a specialist rehabilitation hospital, providing neurological, orthopedic, cardiac and reconditioning programs.

The hospital was built in 1976 and opened the following year as Peninsula Private Hospital. It then relocated to a new site in 1999 and shortly after became the Nepean Rehabilitation Hospital.[2] The facility was acquired by St John of God Health Care in March 2004 and renamed St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital in 2012.[3]

The hospital made global news in 2009 for its work with Russell McPhee, a man who had been paralysed for 20 years. After undertaking a course of botulinum toxin injections – or botox – McPhee was reportedly able to walk again.[4]

St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital is a division of St John of God Health Care.[5]

Facilities

The hospital has 60 beds, hydrotherapy pool, cardiac, physiotherapy and occupational therapy gyms, a chapel and a pet visiting room.[6]

The facility underwent a $723,000 façade upgrade in 2010, including redevelopment of the cardiac/pulmonary gym.[7]

Services

Rehabilitation services offered by the hospital include:

  • Stroke
  • Neurological
  • Orthopaedic
  • Spinal injury
  • Cardiac
  • Pain management
  • Reconditioning
  • Pulmonary
  • Oncology

Social outreach

In 2010, the hospital partnered with Open Family Australia to introduce a new drug and alcohol educational program for homeless youths in Frankston.[8]

In conjunction with other local businesses, St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital funds a full-time youth worker to help combat youth homelessness, crime and alcohol and drug-related abuse among troubled youth in the region.[9]

References

  1. [1]
    "About". www.sjog.org.au. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  2. [2]
    "St John of God Nepean Rehabilitation Hospital - HOSPITALS, Melbourne - St John Of God Nepean Rehabilitation Hospital in Melbourne - (PHONE: 0397883...) - AU101788762 - Local Infobel.AU". local.infobel.com.au. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  3. [3]
    Health Data Standards and Systems (2004-02-04), “Bulletin, Issue 64”, pp. 3. Retrieved 2011-02-24.
  4. [4]
    Anne Barrowclough (2009-06-05), “Paralysed stroke victim ‘cured’ with Botox”, The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2011-02-24.
  5. [5]
    "Facilities". www.sjog.org.au. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  6. [6]
    St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital, “Facilities”. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  7. [7]
    St John of God Health Care (2011-01-05), “New look Cardiac/Pulmonary gym unveiled”. Press release. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
  8. [8]
    St John of God Health Care (2010-10-07), “Reaching out to youth at risk”. Press release. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
  9. [9]
    St John of God Health Care (2010-10-07), “Reaching out to youth at risk”. Press release. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
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