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Mater Hospital
Established in 1921
the Newcastle Mater Misericordiae Hospital is a 191 bed public
teaching hospital owned and operated by the Sisters of Mercy, Singleton.
The hospital is governed by a Board of Directors. The Mater is the region's major centre for cancer services,
especially blood diseases, breast cancer and melanoma as well as being one of the Hunter's
teaching hospitals.
Services include:
• oncology (cancers)
• clinical haematology (blood)
• palliative care (care of the dying)
• drug and alcohol
• clinical pharmacology & toxicology (drugs and poisons)
• radiotherapy (x-ray treatment)
• general medicine
• general and specialised surgical including plastic surgery
• accident & emergency (24 hour service)
• hospice and palliative care
• liaison psychiatry
• critical care
On an average day at the Mater:
• over 350 outpatients are treated
• 150 inpatients receive care at the hospital
• 28 patients are admitted, eight of them being discharged on
the same day
Contact Us
General Manager: Mr Colin Osborne
Newcastle Mater Misericordiae Hospital
Street: Edith Street Waratah NSW 2298
Postal: Locked Bag 7 Hunter Region Mail Centre NSW 2310
Ph: (02) 4921 1211 or Fax: (02) 4921 2673
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