St John of God Hospital Burwood

Coordinates: 33°52′12″S 151°06′00″E / 33.869937°S 151.100022°E / -33.869937; 151.100022 St John of God Hospital Burwood is a private psychiatric hospital which provides mental health care on an inpatient, day patient and outpatient basis.[1]

The hospital is located in Sydney’s inner-west. In addition to the main building, the hospital operates specialised medical consulting rooms at the adjacent Medical Centre, as well as a Counselling and Therapy Centre located in the hospital grounds.[2]

St John of God Burwood Hospital is a division of St John of God Health Care, a leading Catholic not-for-profit health care group, serving communities with hospitals, home nursing, and social outreach services throughout Australia, New Zealand and the wider Asia-Pacific region.[3]

Facilities

St John of God Burwood Hospital has one ECT suite and one TMS interventional laboratory. It also has the only specialist inpatient mother and baby unit in New South Wales.[4]

Services

St John of God Hospital Burwood offers a number of services for people suffering from mental health issues, including:

  • drug and alcohol addiction
  • anxiety and depression
  • perinatal women's mental health
  • mood disorders
  • personality disorders
  • psychogeriatric and psychotic disorders

Research

In 2009, the Perinatal and Women’s Mental Health Unit was established through a partnership with St John of God Health Care and the University of New South Wales.[5]

Based at the Burwood hospital and led by Professor Marie-Paule Austin, the unit is the first of its kind in Australia to combine both pre-natal and women’s mental health.[6]

Professor Austin and her team will conduct research into anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and other emotional health issues experienced by mothers during pregnancy and after birth.[7]

Social outreach

Casa Venegas, provided by St John of God Social Outreach, provides medium term accommodation to people enduring mental health issues in western and inner Sydney. The service supports people to transition to independent living.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About". sjog.org.au. Retrieved 2017-06-15.
  2. ↑ St John of God Hospital Berwick, “About Us”, Retrieved 2011-02-24
  3. ↑ "Facilities". www.sjog.org.au. Retrieved 2017-06-15.
  4. ↑ "I thought "I will never have my life back"". Retrieved 2017-06-15.
  5. ↑ St John of God Health Care (2009-03-06), “An Australian first for mothers and babies - Burwood establishes Australia's first chair of Perinatal and Women's Mental Health”, Press release, Retrieved 2011-02-14
  6. ↑ The University of New South Wales (2009-03-02), “Australian first for mothers and babies”, Press release, Retrieved 2011-02-14
  7. ↑ The University of New South Wales (2009-03-02), “Australian first for mothers and babies”, Press release, Retrieved 2011-02-14
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