The Women's and Children's Hospital (GA594)

On 15 March 1989 the Adelaide Medical Centre for Women and Children was incorporated as a hospital to take over the function of providing health services from the Adelaide Children's Hospital and the Queen Victoria Hospital. (1) Both the Adelaide Children's Hospital and the Queen Victoria Hospital were dissolved as legal entities. (2)

Circa 1993 the name was changed to the Women's and Children's Hospital.

Operations continued at both the Rose Park site (women and babies) and North Adelaide (children) site until a new building at North Adelaide was completed on 8 May 1995 and the Women's and Babies Division moved into the new Queen Victoria Building on the fomer site of the Adelaide Children's Hospital (3).

On 1 July 2004 the Women's and Children's Hospital was dissolved as a legal entity and the Children, Youth, and Women's Health Service was incorporated as a hospital to take over the functions of the Women's and Children's Hospital and Child and Youth Health. Both bodies were dissolved as legal entities (4) although the Women's and Children's Hospital continues to operate.

References:
(1) South Australian Government Gazette, 19 January 1989, p119.
(2) South Australian Government Gazette, 19 January 1989, p119.
(3) Women's and Children's Hospital website, 'History of the Women's and Children's Hospital', www.wch.sa.gov.au/about/history.html, accessed 24/05/2017.
(4) South Australian Government Gazette, 26 February 2004, p609.