Royal Hobart Hospital

About Royal Hobart Hospital

The Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH) is Tasmania's largest hospital and major referral centre. The RHH provides acute, sub acute, mental health and aged care inpatient and ambulatory services and currently operates from a maximum base of 550 physical beds, including 460 acute overnight and 90 day beds.nnA comprehensive range of services are provided such as cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, extensive burns treatment, hyperbaric medicine, neonatal & paediatric intensive care and high risk obstetrics.nnCritical care services are often the patients' first point of contact and are divided into 'intensive care' and 'emergency medicine'. The RHH provides a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week Emergency Department (ED), and critical care comprises a nine-bed Intensive Care Unit (including cardiothoracic intensive care), and five-bed High Dependency Unit. The new ED (opened 2007) includes 41 treatment spaces/ resuscitation bays, an assessment and planning unit and short stay observation unit.