Princess Alexandra Hospital

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is on Ipswich Road in Woolloongabba, Australia. It is one of the major hospitals in Brisbane and is a teaching hospital of the University of Queensland. It is a tertiary level teaching hospital with all major medical and surgical specialities onsite except for obstetrics, gynaecology and paediatrics. A new building was opened in 2000 to replace the ageing red-brick PA Hospital complex built in the 1950s.

The hospital was opened by and named after HRH Princess Alexandra of the United Kingdom in 1959, to mark the Centennial of Queensland. It has a catchment population of 1.6 million people with 780 beds and 5800 full-time equivalent staff.

Queensland's spinal injuries unit and the liver and kidney transplantation services are based at the hospital.

The P.A. Foundation is located at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. The foundation raises money for medical research on the P.A hospital campus.

In April 2008, the Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine was opened at the hospital.

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