Health Service

The Lyell McEwin Health Service is a 204 bed acute care general hospital situated in the outer northern suburbs of Adelaide. The hospital has recently amalgamated with The Queen Elizabeth Hospital to become the North Western Adelaide Health Service. Major redevelopment and upgrade of the site is anticipated during 1999/2000.

The Lyell McEwin Health Service provides education and training for health professionals in conjunction with the University of Adelaide and Flinders University of South Australia.

Services currently provided include:

	Surgery
	Medicine
	Obstetrics
	Paediatrics
	Emergency Medicine.

The Emergency Department

The ED of the Lyell McEwin Hospital treats over 42 000 clients per annum.

The Emergency Department comprises:

	1 Eye/ENT Examination Room
	9 Examination Cubicles
	2 Observation Bays comprising 4 beds in each
	Resuscitation Room comprising 2 beds
	X-ray and Plaster Rooms.

Walking clients enter the department via the main doors to the Triage Area. Ambulance clients enter from the Ambulance Bay. The Triage Registered Nurse assesses all clients on arrival in Emergency and assigns them a priority of treatment using the National Triage scoring system. This is shown below:

Priority 1     Resuscitation Immediate assessment by a Medical Officer.

Priority 2     Emergency MO assessment within 10 minutes.

Priority 3     Urgent MO assessment within 30 minutes.

Priority 4      Semi Urgent MO assessment within 1 hour of arrival.

Priority 5      Non Urgent MO assessment within 2 hours.

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