St John of God Burwood Hospital is a 95-bed private mental health hospital providing comprehensive mental health care services.
Our committed team of psychiatrists, psychologists, specialist mental health nurses and other allied health professionals recognise you as an individual and tailor programs specifically to your needs to help you return to a rewarding and fulfilling life.
Specialised medical consulting rooms are located adjacent to the hospital in our Medical Centre where our consultant psychiatrists offer treatments such as medication, cognitive behavioural therapy and other psychotherapies to treat the entire range of psychiatric disorders.
Located with the hospital is our purpose-built Counselling and Therapy Centre for outpatients and day patients where we provide holistic, professional and compassionate care for mental health needs in a safe, relaxed and caring environment.
We provide a diverse range of specialised psychiatric programs and services for inpatients, day patients and outpatients including:
- drug and alcohol addiction
- anxiety
- depression
- perinatal women's mental health
- mood disorders
- personality disorders
- electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
- transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
Community and social outreach
As part of St John of God Health Care, we have a commitment to providing care and relief for people experience disadvantage throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region, particularly in areas where we have identified gaps in current service provisions.
In our local community, we operate Casa Venegas, an outreach service people with enduring mental health problems who are experiencing homelessness.
Casa Venegas
Casa Venegas provides medium term accommodation to people with enduring mental health issues in western and inner Sydney.
People with mental health issues are one of the most disadvantaged groups in society and make up a big part of our homeless population.
Our service helps people with enduring mental health issues who are homeless transition to independent living through a recovery-based framework approach.
Consumer engagement
As part of our approach to consumer involvement, we have a Consumer and Carer Partnership Advisory Committee who provides valuable input and feedback about our services.
The committee is made up of former clients, their family or carers and they contract their time to assist us in a variety of areas.
The Consumer and Carer Partnership Advisory Committee:
- participates in hospital committees that plan, implement and evaluate various aspects of the services we deliver
- reviews brochures and other consumer information
- receives correspondence and advocates for clients
- advises and presents feedback on the hospital and its services.
If you want to give general feedback to the hospital, or to make a complaint, compliment or suggestion, visit our contact us page.
Joining the Consumer and Carer Partnership Advisory Committee
To find out if we have vacancies or to register your interest in becoming a committee member, please contact:
Director of Mission Integration
Telephone: 02 9715 9200
Email: [email protected]
History of St John of God Burwood Hospital
In 1957 St John of God Burwood Hospital was founded by the Brothers of St John of God as a medical and psychiatric hospital to provide health care services to those in need.
Shortly after, in 1983, we responded to the AIDS epidemic and became one of the first private hospitals to accept patients with HIV and AIDS, a disenfranchised group in society at the time.
By 1990, our focus shifted to solely providing psychiatric care and we became a specialised mental health facility delivering person-centred care to people with mental health, drug and alcohol issues.
From this time, we developed and promoted our current program of research to become one of the leading private psychiatric hospitals in Australia. As such, we were one of the first hospitals in Australia to trial Clozapine, an antipsychotic drug used to treat schizophrenia.
In the 1990s, we extended our care for people with mental illness by providing accommodation and support in the community, particularly for those at risk of homelessness, through our Casa Venegas service.
The Mother and Baby Unit was created in response to an increasing demand for perinatal mental health treatment, including depression and anxiety, and has allowed us to provide specialised care for women and their babies up to 12 months of age.
Today our facility continues to provide dedicated mental health care in response to the needs of the community.