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Flinders Medical Centre (FMC)
Address
Flinders Dr, Bedford Park, SA 5042 Australia
Telephone
8204 5511. Child Protection Service: 8204 5485, 8204 5511 (a.h.)
Fax
8204 5450
Email
Website
Parent Body
Southern Adelaide Health Service
Hours
Administration: Mon - Fri 8am - 5pm. Emergency: 24 hours, 7 days per week. Visiting: generally 7 days per week 7am - 8.30pm
Fees
According to health insurance status. Free for public patients
Access
For wheelchairs, including parking and toilets
Comment
A 580 bed public teaching hospital and medical school co-located with Flinders University and Flinders Private Hospital
Services
- Emergency medical care/casualty
- Medical and surgical care
- Specialist services
- Psychiatric care
- Allied health services - audiology, dietetics & nutrition, hydrotherapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, podiatry, social work & counselling, speech pathology, arts in health, pastoral care
- Aboriginal Health Unit (Karpa Ngarrattendi) - support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and their families
- Anxiety and Related Disorders Unit - including gambling therapy (Gambling Help Services SA)
- Breast Unit - breast disease assessment, diagnosis, treatment and counselling
- Cancer care consultant nursing service
- Child and adolescent psychiatric care - Southern Child Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
- Child Protection Service - assessment and other therapeutic interventions for children and young people (0 - 18 years) and their families following concerns regarding physical, sexual and psychological abuse and neglect
- Consumer advisory service - for resolution of complaints
- Dental care - general dental service for people who are unemployed, financially disadvantaged and pensioners with a Health Care card
- Diabetes clinic
- HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C screening, assessment and follow-up
- Hospital@Home - short term nursing care for people in their own homes, after discharge from hospital
- Mental Health Services Division
- Pain management
- Paediatrics and child health
- Palliative care - Southern Adelaide Palliative Services
- Pastoral care - chaplains and representatives from various religious traditions provide support. A chapel is available on Level 4 of the hospital
- Renal dialysis
- Reproductive health care - contraception advice, infertility treatment including In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) program, childbirth education classes, pregnancy clinic for young women, birthing centre for women anticipating a low risk pregnancy and delivery, multiple birth support, neonatal unit, postnatal support and maternity outreach service, abortion, voluntary sterilisation, high risk/medical complications pregnancy clinics
- Respiratory Unit - information and assistance for people with respiratory problems
- South Australian Adult Cochlear Implant Program for people aged 18 and over
- South Australian Huntington's Disease Service - counselling and care management, predictive and prenatal testing
- Stomal therapy support
- Volunteer program, tel. 8204 3009
- Weight Disorder Unit - inpatient, outpatient and community based services for people with eating disorders
- Women's health
- Wound management
