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Shellharbour Hospital is a major district hospital located in Shellharbour, New South Wales, a southern suburb of Wollongong. It is part of the Southern network of the South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service, and receives students from the University of New South Wales and University of Wollongong.

Services
Shellharbour Hospital provides medical, surgical, obstetric, emergency and psychiatry services to the Shoalharbour and northern Illawarra region, operating 75 beds and a 5 bed high dependance unit. It also operates a satellite dialysis unit, and is also a leading provider of gynaecological and laprascopic surgery in the Southern region. In the year 2006-7 there were over 15000 admissions provided by 273 full time equivalent staff.

A new 20-bed mental health unit intendend as a step-down service that provides rehabilitation for patients discharged from acute care services is currently under construction. Also being built is an adolescent mental health unit. The centre for referral of complex cases from Shellharbour is Woollongong Hospital. The hospital receives students from the University of New South Wales, and in 2008 a formal agreement was signed with the University of Woollongong graduate medical school.

History
Shellharbour Hospital opened in 1986 by Neville Wran, after many years of lobbying and at a cost of $22 milion. The hospital provided medical and surgical services, and paediatric and maternity services were transferred to it from nearby Port Kembla Hospital. As the population of the area grew, the volume of services provided steadily increased and placed pressure on hospital servicesl in 2006 physician Chris Dunn said the hospital was under-resourced and there was a "staffing crisis."

In 2007 the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) revoked the hospital's accreditation for employing and teaching basic physician trainees due to inadequate supervision from senior staff. The hospital submitted a request to regain its status in 2008, and is currently under consideration by the RACP.