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[[File:Burnside war memorial hospi.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The hospital from [[Kensington Road, Adelaide|Kensington Road]].]]
'''Burnside Hospital''', formerly '''Burnside War Memorial Hospital''',<ref name=about>{{cite web | title=About| website=Burnside Hospital | date=11 July 2023 | url=https://www.burnsidehospital.asn.au/about/ | access-date=2 May 2024}}</ref> is the only private [[hospital|community hospital]] in the [[City of Burnside]], [[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-12 |title=Burnside War Memorial Hospital |url=https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports-data/myhospitals/hospital/h5275 |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |language=en}}</ref>

[[Burnside Council]] suggested building a community hospital in August 1943, as part of its Post-War Reconstruction and Development Committee; it was to cost 100,000 pounds and to remain as a memorial to honour Burnside's [[war dead]]. A local resident of [[Toorak Gardens, South Australia|Toorak Gardens]], Otto George Ludwig von Rieben, offered his property, a mansion called [[Attunga, Toorak Gardens|Attunga]], for use as a community hospital free of charge in 1944. In April 1949 the first conversion of Von Rieben's home was complete, and the hospital was caring for 21 patients. The hospital closed for a month in 1956 and when it reopened was given the name Burnside War Memorial Hospital. By then it had cared for over 1,400 patients.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of Burnside Hospital Adelaide  |url=https://www.burnsidehospital.asn.au/about/about-us/our-history/ |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=Burnside Hospital}}</ref> 

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==External links==
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[[Category:City of Burnside]]
[[Category:Hospitals in Adelaide]]
[[Category:Hospitals established in 1944]]


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