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FACILITIES

Calvary John James Hospital offers a range of medical specialties including, but not limited to:

  • Dental
  • Ear, Nose and Throat
  • Eyes
  • Gastro-enterology
  • General medicine
  • General surgery
  • Gynaecology
  • Intensive Care Unit
  • Maternity
  • Oncology
  • Orthopaedics
  • Paediatrics
  • Plastic surgery
  • Thoracics
  • Urology
  • Vascular

We have comprehensive private on-site pathology and radiology services, including CT scanners and MRI, Preventative Medicine and Rehabilitation Centre.

Pre-Admission Clinic

The Pre-Admission Clinic helps ensure that you are fit for surgery, while providing you with information as to what you can expect before and after surgery.

Maternity Centre

Our large, spacious and busy Maternity Centre delivers over eleven hundred babies per year, and offers a full range of midwifery services including a Level 2 special care nursery.

Calvary John James is the preferred hospital of choice for private maternity services in the Australian Capital Territory. 

Our Maternity Centre also offers -

  • a choice of shared or single accommodation, all with en-suites.  A television, radio and telephone is provided in each room, with complimentary local calls.
  • a small laundry area for use by patients
  • a first stage lounge, three delivery suites, and a spa bath for labouring patients
  • free parent education classes conducted by midwives and physiotherapists.  These classes include early pregnancy, refresher classes, mothercraft education talks, anaesthetic information, and educational support for parents with special needs.  
  • ante-natal and post-natal exercise classes through one of the hospital’s physiotherapists
  • baby photos - we have an agreement with PAJ Photographers to provide patients in our Maternity Centre with the opportunity to have photographs taken of their baby.  The costs for these photographs will be billed directly by PAJ Photographers.
  • a Calvary John James teddy bear
  • a 24-hour hotline (6281 8730) for breastfeeding and general advice up to one week after discharge.

Maternity Tours occur every Sunday at 3pm. To confirm  the tour is available on the date contact Maternity Ward on 02 6281 8730 two hours prior the start time of the tour.

Visiting Hours

  • Partners are welcome to visit at any time, except between 1.00pm and 3.00pm. 
  • All other visitors are most welcome during normal visiting hours, which are:
  • 3.00pm to 5.00pm
  • 7.00pm to 8.00pm

While prior arrangements may be made to visit at other times, please respect the privacy of other patients, and rest periods of expecting or recovering mothers.

Children are welcome to visit but must be under adult supervision at all times.  Like all visitors, they must be quiet and are not to enter other patients’ rooms.

Canberra Cancer Care Centre

The Canberra Cancer Care Centre brings together a range of cancer services including -

  • diagnostic imaging
  • cancer surgery
  • chemotherapy
  • counselling and support
  • palliative care

Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

Our Intensive Care Unit provides 24 hour Intensivist and Resident Medical Officer cover.  Highly trained and skilled clinicians, fully equipped facilities, and the capacity to nurse ventilated patients, ensure that we provide the most up to date post-surgical and intensive care.