St John of God Hospital Geelong in the 1980s and 1990s

Geelong’s hospital have come a long way since the 1980s. We go back four decades to look at St John of God Hospital.

We’ve dug through the Geelong Advertiser’s photo archives to bring you shots from years gone by.

This week we take a look through St John of God Hospital, Geelong, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Sister Jan Slattery outside the new wing of St John of God's Hospital, which offered pastoral care on May 29, 1992.

Dr Donald Robertson and Melva Allitt on September 25, 1992.

Registered nurse Pam Garrity has some words of comfort for six-year-old Christopher West before his operation on February 2, 1993.

Dr Erica Yeates, Geelong radiological clinic managing partner Dr Donald Robertson and clinic general manager Warren Brown in the St John of God facility on May 8, 1993.

Radiographer Kit Boyd in the new angiography suite on September 25, 1992

New equipment for pathology at St John of God Hospital proves to be a handful to deliver. Picture taken on January 14, 1992.

Pictured in theatre one at St John of God Hospital on August 10, 1987 are board members Leo McCusker and Mr Kelvin Darcy with theatre charge nurse Helen Sceney.

Open day at St John of God Hospital for International Midwives Day. Mother Karilyn Prats with twin babies Jeremy and Luke, four days old, pictured with midwives, from left, Liz Lenehan, Ann-Maree Kennedy, Tracey Rickard and Charmaine Johnston on May 4, 1993.

Originally published as St John of God Hospital Geelong in the 1980s and 1990s