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UNBELIEVABLE: Maitland hospital | History Defined

'Healing environment': mental health centre to treat criminal patients

The centre must not be 'boxes within boxes in a car park'.

Newcastle Herald

'Silent killer': When Brandon lost his nan, it was heartbreaking

Helena sadly died on the day of her wedding anniversary.

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'Great strides': Government touts boost to Maitland Hospital ED

Additional staffing and extended days 'making a difference'.

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7yo Memphis turned away from Cessnock Hospital: 'We don't treat kids'

Family distressed at delays in care and lack of local capacity

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'Not cleaning beds, answering calls or emptying bins': Nurses up the ante

'We've had enough. We're not going to be just pushed aside.'

Newcastle Herald

After three-day wait for urgent surgery, 73yo told to go to private sector

"Mucked about" at Maitland Hospital over serious leg injury.

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Greens say old Maitland hospital could be a mental health space

Dr Cohn said the community has a right to know.

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Kathleen Folbigg's ex-husband dies at Maitland Hospital

Craig Folbigg's ex-wife was given a pardon over the deaths of their children.

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Mental health centre for Maitland Hospital moves forward to design stage

Morisset staff and patients won't have to move until late 2026.

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Hunter rugby league community rocked by player's death

The man collapsed during training last night.

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Old Maitland Hospital site plans unknown to public

The hospital was closed two years ago.

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'Sorry' hospital tells woman after nearly two-week wait with broken ankle

'I wasn't the only one, they had a line up of about 30 because only one theatre was working.'

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'Didn't seem to care': appendicitis treatment at Maitland Hospital slammed

Mum says son's 'journey to surgery was confusing and changing'.

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'It's dangerous': Maitland Hospital nurses speak out

'They've flat out told us that everything is fine.'

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Doctor said 'drive slow': twin baby born in back of moving ambulance

'I was so scared, I thought everything was going to go wrong.'

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New Maitland mental health centre, with Morisset move

Morisset Kestrel medium secure forensic unit to be moved.

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Missing million: Labor to deliver half of park funding promised by Meryl Swanson

The government will only provide $1m to upgrade Cooks Square Park.

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Elective surgery waiting lists rise, as COVID backlog surfaces

'These are people in pain with reduced function.'

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Woman tells inquest her Jehovah's Witness mother refused potentially life-saving blood transfusion

A Hunter Valley woman has told an inquest her Jehovah's Witness mother was acting on what the church wanted her to do by refusing a blood transfusion that could have saved her life.

Newcastle Herald

Hunter emergency department staff get thumbs up, despite health crisis

Without health professionals, there'd be 'no one to help them'.

Newcastle Herald

'Mathematically impossible': union says nurses are failing basic patient health checks

Documents have revealed Maitland Hospital patients missed out on thousands of hours of care.

Newcastle Herald

'More work needed' as hospitals lag on emergency care

Maitland and John Hunter hospitals were well below the NSW average for treating patients on time.

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Struggling Hunter hospital tops state's patient walkout list

Maitland MP Jenny Aitchison says data showing the town's new hospital has the highest patient walkout rate in NSW is more evidence the health system needs "structural repair".

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Bureau of Health Information data allows the public to compare hospital care

Sieving the data on Maitland Hospital

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'It'll be a really long wait': Report shows Maitland Hospital is under the pump

There has been a steady decline in other key BHI benchmarks since the hospital's new site opened in January.

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