A new mother-and-baby unit will be created at the Royal Hobart Hospital following the announcement of the closure of St Helen’s Private Hospital, which will be coming into effect in June this year.
Healthscope, the operator of St Helen’s Private Hospital, says that its decision to close the hospital is due to its inability to secure multimillion-dollar funds to repair the heritage-listed building.
St Helen’s Private Hospital, a private mental health facility in Hobart, has served the state for 30 years with 31 beds dedicated to mental health patients and eight beds allocated for mothers and their babies, the only service of its kind in Tasmania….