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St Vincent's Hospital

November 2024

Amelia Gasparotto

‘They can afford to pay’: Strike to hit private hospital giant

Nurses and midwives at Ramsay Health Care will strike at 17 hospitals in NSW for 24 hours on Tuesday demanding a 20 per cent pay increase.

  • David Marin-Guzman

September 2024

On the front line: St Vincent’s emergency department nurse manager Melanie Kelly and Dr Gonzalo Aguirrebarrena, head of the department.

‘At tipping point’: Inside one of Australia’s busiest hospitals

Doctors and nurses in Australia’s busiest emergency ward say the system is under unprecedented pressure amid a surge in mental illness and geriatric patients with nowhere else to go.

  • Michael Smith

July 2024

Chris Blake, the boss of St Vincent’s

St Vincent’s splits with insurer NIB amid private hospitals ‘crisis’

St Vincent’s on Thursday told health fund NIB it would walk away from its contract over an entrenched pricing disagreement.

  • Tom McIlroy

June 2024

St Vincent’s Health Australia chief executive Chris Blake and Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil

Cyber protection boosted in critical healthcare sector

Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil is rolling out a new intelligence centre as part of efforts to upgrade cyber safeguards for healthcare and hospitals.

  • Tom McIlroy

November 2023

Former St Vincent’s chief executive and freshly minted 
Integral Diagnostics chair Toby Hall.

Integral Diagnostics chair pops up for Partners Group at Cura auction

The Zug-headquartered private equity firm is serious about its tilt as it jostles with Intermediate Capital Group and a Medibank/Macquarie consortium.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

April 2022

The St Vincent’s Clinic Foundation  has launched a new capital campaign.

Fund managers turn out for St Vincent’s Clinic Foundation

In Sydney as in any civilised metropolis, its wealthy denizens lean heavily into medical philanthropy.

  • Joe Aston

July 2021

St Vincent’s gets going on $180m build at private hospital

Investment in healthcare real estate has become an increasing focus of traditional commercial property companies in recent times.

  • Nick Lenaghan

March 2020

St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney.

Scare at Sydney hospital; rush to expand testing

Officials are urgently trying to expand the health system's capacity to test people for coronavirus as fear of the infection spreads, as it was revealed a man in his 70s who went to St Vincent's hospital emergency department has been diagnosed with COVID-19.

March 2019

For the more than 140,000 Australians who face the grim diagnosis each year, survival rates are steadily improving.

St Vincent's Health calls for an overhaul of the private system

The hospital and aged care wants greater powers for APRA, better transparency for the consumer and to ensure healthcare is affordable for all.

  • Carrie LaFrenz

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