Calvary Health Care

Established in 1966, Calvary Health Care Kogarah provides public hospital services under a Service Level Agreement with the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District and is an Australian Council of Healthcare Standards accredited hospital.

Calvary Health Care Kogarah is a 99 bed rehabilitation, palliative care and community care organisation. In keeping with the corporate mission, vision and values, Calvary Health Care Kogarah strives to provide quality, compassionate health care to the most vulnerable, including patients approaching end of life. Calvary Health Care Kogarah serves the communities of the St George and Sutherland Shire regions. We sit within the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District as an affiliated organisation.

The hospital is set within lush and private garden settings to enhance the wellbeing of our patients and their families.

Calvary Kogarah’s palliative care service incorporates specialist in-patient and community services lead by dedicated multidisciplinary teams and complemented by pastoral care and a complex bereavement service.

Our rehabilitation service incorporates an inpatient rehabilitation unit, day rehabilitation, general and Parkinson’s rehabilitation programs and an extensive range of community-based rehabilitation services such as the Transitional Aged Care Service. Calvary Kogarah also operates a suite of community services including and Aged Care Assessment Service.

Calvary Health Care Kogarah is a teaching hospital with a strong and active commitment to research. We are affiliated with the University of NSW and Notre Dame University and provide clinical placements in under-graduate and post-graduate programs.

The hospital is built on a former orchard site, on land owned by the Fitzgerald Family. The land was bequeathed by the Fitzgerald Family to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney to establish a hospital catering to people of all faiths. Calvary Health Care Kogarah began its work in 1966 as a Hospice for the terminally ill under the care of the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary.

A day hospital and a bereavement service were opened in 1981. In 1984 an administration wing was built, with further extensions opened in 1991 to provide accommodation for the Calvary community palliative care team and a pain clinic for outpatients. In 1991 the hospital became an associated teaching hospital of the University of New South Wales.

Calvary Health Care Kogarah embraced a new focus of care in 1994. In addition to continuing to provide its excellent palliative care service, a 16 bed rehabilitation inpatient unit was commenced, in consultation with the local area health service, in order to meet the needs of the growing number of patients requiring rehabilitation.

1995 saw us welcome the rehabilitation aged care service to the Calvary Health Care Kogarah site. Since that time the rehabilitation and aged care service has expanded to include the transitional aged Care service; continence advisory service; podiatry; memory clinic; motor neurone disease clinic; and community aged care rehabilitation.

Further extensive renovations were completed in 2001.

The day rehabilitation gymnasium and hydrotherapy pool were opened in 2009 and internal renovations to the Chapel of the Resurrection were completed.

The Community Advisory Council assists Calvary Health Care Kogarah with, and provides advice on, community and stakeholder engagement. Through this group local consumers and communities can help us to make the best decisions when it comes to planning our services. Representatives are drawn from a broad cross section of the community and meet with Calvary Health Care Kogarah executives on a regular basis.