Esperance District Hospital
Beach
24 Jane Street
Esperance is a beautiful regional township of about 14 000 people nestled on the shore of Esperance Bay along WA's southern coastline.
Surrounded by a necklace of several hundred islands comprising the Recherche Archipelago, the encompassing area is commonly referred to as the Bay of Isles.
Graced with a temperate climate year round and sugar-white sand bordered by brilliant blue-water bays, the peace and simplicity of the region is a large part of its appeal.
Esperance is a eight-hour car drive, an hour-and-a-half flight, or about 10 hours on a coach from Perth. Kalgoorlie is about four hours drive north of Esperance.
A fully furnished three-bedroom house is located on Jane Street, about four minutes walk from the hospital and town centre and adjacent to a large sporting complex.
The house has wireless internet access and a monitored alarm system.
Esperance District Hospital is a 40-bed hospital providing services for accident and emergency, obstetrics (around 250 deliveries per year), medical, general, surgical (limited), palliative care, paediatric and psychiatric admissions.
In addition inpatient gynaecology, surgery and orthopaedic services are provided by visiting specialists. The following areas are also located within the hospital or at Community Health:
There are around 16 private general practitioners in Esperance, working full or part-time, distributed between four practices, all of whom have admitting rights to EDH.
The GPs have a broad range of skills, including anaesthetics, surgery and obstetrics. Most of the town's GPs have indicated they are keen to teach Rural Clinical School students. There are no resident specialists in Esperance; however many visit regularly.
There are a number of visiting specialists to Esperance, the frequency of their visits varying from year to year depending on requirements and availability:
Every effort will be made to accommodate students' requests to spend time with the visiting specialists. Please note, however, that this may not always be possible because of the time constraints placed upon the specialists when they visit.
Western Diagnostic Pathology has a collection service only.