Ashford Hospital

Name :

Ashford Hospital

Address  :

55 Anzac Highway

Town  :

Ashford

State  :

South Australia

Country  :

AUSTRALIA

Post Code:

5035

Phone  :

08 8375 5222

Web URL  :



History

Ashford
Ashford Hospital was opened in 1950 a joint collaboration between Unley Mitcham West Torrens and Marion Councils and a group of Western District doctors It was actually the second hospital opened on the same site with Ashford Private Hospital first opening in 1935 which was run by two nursing sisters who sold the hospital to Ashford Community Hospital in 1950

In 1995 Ashford was the first private hospital in the State to open an emergency department which now attends to approximately 20000 patients each year
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