TPCH History: 1960s

1960

The vacant prefabricated wards were converted into a senile annex equipped to accommodate 44 male and 108 female patients and a sub-normal children’s ward to accommodate 100 children’s cases.

The Cardiac Unit opened.

The first Cardiac Catheterisation procedure was performed on the 4^th October.

Image taken around 1963

1961

The hospital was renamed The Chermside Hospital and was governed by the Chermside Hospitals Board.

The Chermside Hospital performed its first thoracic surgery procedure on the 8^th February.

The Physiotherapy Department was established.

1962

The Chermside Hospital opened a 76 bed Orthopaedic Ward.

The Handicapped Children’s Unit opened.

1963

The Respiratory Function Unit opened.

1964

The Neuro-Psychiatric Wards opened on the 13^th May (later renamed the Winston Noble Unit).

The Chermside Hospital performed its first pacemaker procedure.

The first ‘hole in the heart’ (ventricular septal defect) operation was performed.

Open heart surgery commenced on the 7^th April.

The first open heart operation being performed

The first children’s ward opened for cardiac and thoracic (asthmatic) patients.  This was because the admission of children to the adult ward was unsatisfactory.

1966

The technology of IMAX was invented by Dr Jim Hood, TPCH Radiologist.

The Geriatrics Wards opened.

1967

Paediatric aortic and pulmonary valve surgery and repair commenced and The Chermside Hospital led Australia in this field.

The Cryovalve Bank opened.

A “Cardiac Day” was held at the hospital on 30^th September which was attended by over 100 members of the medical profession.