About the Hospital

Fremantle Hospital first opened in 1897.  It is the tertiary referral centre for the South Metropolitan Health Service (including the Rottnest Island Nursing Post).  The hospital has 450 inpatient beds (including 66 psychiatric beds in the Alma St Facility).  The hospital is the only centre in WA to offer services in hyperbaric medicine.  The hospital has 300 000 occasions of service per calendar year, and approximately 40 000 attendances to the emergency department.

Where are we?

Street Address: Alma Street , Fremantle

Postal Address: PO Box 480 , Fremantle WA 6959

Switchboard: 9431 3333

Fax: 9431 2921

Website: http://www.fhhs.health.wa.gov.au/

Getting There

The Railway Line to Fremantle leaves you at Fremantle station.  It is about 15-20 minutes walk to the hospital, or you can catch one of the buses that heads in that direction.  Buses run past the hospital along South Tce on the west side of the hospital campus, and Hampton Rd on the east side of the hospital campus.  The Fremantle CAT service stops on South Tce .

Road access to the hospital area is either via Stirling Hwy coming from the north, or via Leach Hwy to the east.  Parking at the hospital is cheap in the visitors area (40 cents/hour).  Fremantle Council does to some checks of the area, but the likelihood is that the further you are away from the hospital the less likely you are to be checked.

There is limited free parking on the North side of Hampton Road (runs north/south past the old Fremantle Gaol and the Hospital).  There is some free 3 hour parking at the east end of Alma St.  Parking is also ok east of Hampton Road on Fothergill Road and Stevens St.

(Someone please contact me with information for approaches from the East and South)  

Stirling Hwy can be hairy for some cyclists, and generally doesn’t offer much space for cars and bikes to co-exist.  The best approach from the north is following the roads that run parallel to the railway.  (Someone please contact me with information for approaches from the East and South)

This Website was created by Dr Timothy Clay on behalf of the West Australian Medical Students' Society.  All content copyright.
Last updated: November 11, 2004.