John Hunter Hospital

The John Hunter Hospital and John Hunter Children's Hospital (sometimes known as the JHH and JHCH respectively, or more colloquially the John Hunter) is a teaching hospital and children's hospital in Newcastle, and northern New South Wales, Australia. The 820 bed hospital is the main teaching hospital of the University of Newcastle. The hospital contains the only trauma centre in New South Wales outside the Sydney Metropolitan Area, and has the busiest emergency department in the state. John Hunter is the busiest trauma hospital in the country

Overview
The John Hunter health complex consists of 820 beds in total, and is co-located next to the 174 bed Newcastle Private Hospital, as well as the regional Hunter Area Pathology Service which provides tertiary level pathology testing. The complex consists of a single building, which is divided into 694 adult beds and another 126 paediatric beds in the John Hunter Children's Hospital.

The Royal Newcastle Centre (formerly Royal Newcastle Hospital), opened as an extension wing to the John Hunter Hospital in April 2006, providing 144 of these beds. Patients from the Hunter Region and beyond are referred to John Hunter for treatment in a range of specialities. The John Hunter Children's Hospital and Royal Newcastle Centre are located within the same building as the John Hunter Hospital. Also on the same grounds are Rankin Park Hospital (Rehab), Newcastle Private Hospital and the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI).

Specialty services provided
The JHH and JHCH are tertiary level hospitals, and provide the following specialties and subspecialties:

Wards
The John Hunter Hospital and John Hunter Children's Hospital consists of the following ~30 bed wards. Wards are designated by their horizontal position along the hospitals long corridor (by letter) and the number indicates which level of the hospital the ward is on (Levels 1–3). Hence ward E3 is positioned above E2 and next door to ward F3.


 * Ward E1: Rehabilitation
 * Ward E2: Urology/Rheumatology
 * Ward E3: Orthopaedics
 * Ward F1: Orthopaedics
 * Ward F2: Immunology/Respiratory/General Medicine
 * Ward F3: Cardiovascular
 * Ward G1: General Medicine
 * Ward G2: Neurology/Neurosurgery
 * Ward G3: Cardiology/Gastroenterology
 * Ward H1: Children's Medical
 * Ward H2: Emergency Short Stay Unit/Medical Assessment and Coordination Unit
 * Ward H3: Special Surgery/Trauma
 * Ward J1: Children's Surgical and Oncology
 * Ward J2: Adolescent, Day Stay and Sleep Unit
 * Ward J3: General Surgery
 * Ward K1: Nephrology/Dialysis
 * Ward K2: Maternity/Post-Natal
 * Ward K3: Gynaecology/Gynaecology Oncology
 * AGSU: Acute General Surgical Unit
 * CCU: Coronary Care Unit
 * ED: Emergency Department
 * Transplant: Transplant
 * ICU/HD: Intensive Care Unit/High Dependency Unit
 * PICU: Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
 * NICU: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
 * NEXUS: Adolescent Mental Health

Origin of name
A unique aspect of the John Hunter Hospital is the reasoning behind its name. Rather than being named after one person, the JHH is named in honour of three men, all of whom were called John Hunter. They were:
 * John Hunter, a former governor of New South Wales and the namesake of the whole Hunter region
 * John Hunter, the famed 18th-century surgeon and pioneer of anatomical pathology, and
 * John Irvine Hunter, an Australian anatomist who died in 1924 at the age of 26, having already been appointed the youngest anatomy professor at the University of Sydney

Solar array
In late 2021, a solar installation said to be the largest on any hospital in the world, was switched on at the John Hunter Hospital. It contains more than 5,000 solar panels, covers 12,000 square metres, and generates 3.24 gigawatt-hours per year.