Sydney Hospital

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Sydney Hospital
South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service
View from Macquarie Street
Geography
Location	Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates	33°52′05″S 151°12′45″E / 33.868157°S 151.21238°E / -33.868157; 151.21238
Organisation
Care system	Public Medicare (AU)
Type	General
Affiliated university	University of New South Wales University of Sydney
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	113
History
Opened	1788 (original hospital) 1811 (current site)
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Australia

Sydney Hospital, historically known as the Rum Hospital, is a major hospital in Sydney, Australia, located on Macquarie Street in the Sydney central business district. It is the oldest hospital in Australia, dating back to 1788, and has been at its current location since 1811. It first received the name Sydney Hospital in 1881.

Currently the hospital comprises 113 inpatient beds. There are about 400 staff members. Specialist services attract patients from all over New South Wales. It specialises in ophthalmology and hand surgery and is a referral hospital for patients requiring these services. It also houses a rudimentary 6-bed Emergency Department.

Sydney Hospital became a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney in 1909.^[1] Sydney Hospital is associated with Sydney Medical School of the University of Sydney through the Discipline of Clinical Ophthalmology and Eye Health and Save Sight Institute.^[2] It is also the location of a number of research institutes associated with the University, including the Heart Research Institute, the Centenary Institute for Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, the Kanematsu Memorial Institute of Pathology and the General Endocrinology Group.