Ashford, Memorial and Flinders not-for-private ACHA group hospitals bring specialist care to Adelaide's suburbs
Ashford Hospital on Anzac Highway has an emergency service and maternity care.
Ashford Hospital, Flinders Private Hospital and the Memorial Hospital made up the Adelaide Community Healthcare Alliance (ACHA), the largest private hospital group in South Australia in the 21st Century.
Adelaide Community Healthcare Alliance was governed by six directors elected and appointed by its members, according to its constitution. Under a contract, the Healthscope organisation looked after daily management and running of the hospitals while ACHA decided strategy and governance. As a not-for-profit community health association, ACHA’s surplus funds are reinvested into the organisation and used to upgrade patient care, service and equipment.
Ashford Hospital, complemented by an emergency service and maternity care on Anzac Highway to the Adelaide CBD’s west, more than doubled in size from a $33 million development started in 2018. It boosted day beds in line with a trend away from overnight stays. It included a new six-bed chest-pain clinic. Ashford was the first South Australian private hospital to perform a cardiac bypass in 1991.
North Adelaide’s Memorial Hospital offered specialties, including orthopaedic surgery, ENT (otorhinolaryngology) surgery, plastic surgery, neurosurgery, neurology, ophthalmology, general medicine, paediatric surgery, rehabilitation, sub-acute care, EEG studies and sleep studies. Occupational therapy forms a crucial part of treatment at the Memorial.
Flinders Private Hospital was built in 1999 near Flinders Medical Centre, the largest public hospital in Adelaide’s southern region. Flinders Private Hospital key specialties were cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, orthopaedic surgery, general surgery, neurosurgery, general medicine, gynaecology, urology and ear, nose and throat surgery.