Welcome to St John of God Hospital Ballarat

St John of God Hospital Ballarat was established in 1915 and is the largest not-for-profit hospital in regional Victoria. It has 209 beds and provides an extensive range of health care providing city services to residents living in Ballarat and Western Victoria. 

The hospital has recently completed a major transformation with a $65m construction program. The new building houses:

• five wards
• emergency medicine
• hydrotherapy pool
• café and gift shop
• chapel
• pharmacy
• day procedure centre
• front reception

Also included was the development of a $2.2m cardiac and vascular angiography suite with the modern angiography equipment and interventional angiography services - a first for the region.

Five operating theatres have been refurbished with new state-of-art air handling and theatre equipment installed. One theatre is digital which means images from the theatre can be seen around the word – another first for the region.

Engineering services were upgraded with installation of new cooling towers, heating hot water generators and chillers and associated building and pipe work now supports the buildings.

In addition a water recycling system has been installed that recycles water from the sterilisers in our sterilising department and collected in the 180,000 litre tank storage farm. These tanks supply the boilers, cooling towers, heating hot water and chill water makeup and water to all toilets in the medical services building.

Two 25,000 litre concrete water tanks have also been installed underground in front of Bailey’s Mansion to capture harvested rain water from the front entry roof of the new building. 

The investment in the hospital and the community of Ballarat continues the already strong and proud tradition of excellence in health care first started in Ballarat by the Sisters of St John of God over 95 years ago. It is an exciting new chapter in the hospital’s rich history and will enable it to continue providing the very best in contemporary health care services and facilities to the people of Ballarat and surrounds.