Adelaide Community Healthcare Alliance Explained

Adelaide Community Healthcare Alliance Incorporated
Established:	9 November 1999

Adelaide Community Healthcare Alliance is a South Australian private hospital group incorporated on 9 November 1999. Healthscope has had day-to-day operational responsibility for the hospitals since 2003.

It comprises the following hospitals:

• Ashford Hospital, opened in 1950 as a joint collaboration between Unley, Mitcham, West Torrens and Marion Councils, with a group of western suburbs doctors.
• Flinders Private Hospital opened in 1999 adjacent to Flinders Medical Centre and the Flinders University School of Medicine.
• The Memorial Hospital, North Adelaide opened in March 1919^[1] with the first patient being admitted in 1920 by the South Australian Methodist Conference to honour veterans of World War I.^[2]

Notes and References

1. News: A PRACTICAL MEMORIAL. . . Adelaide, SA . 1 March 1919 . 15 February 2016 . 10 . National Library of Australia.
2. News: METHODIST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.. 12 February 1920. The Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1912 - 1923). 15 February 2016. National Library of Australia. Adelaide, SA. 1 Edition: 5 P.M. EDITION.