Sunshine Hospital is a public hospital located on Furlong Road in St Albans, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It is one of three major hospitals operated by Western Health in the western suburbs of Melbourne. The hospital takes its name from the major suburb of Sunshine near which it is located.
History
The first hospital around Sunshine was established in the 1920s by two nursing sisters in King Edward Street, Albion, and was called St Andrews. It was renamed Sunshine and District Community Hospital in 1946, and was then merged with Western General Hospital in Eleanor Street, Footscray, to become the Maribyrnong Medical Centre.
In 1989, the King Edward Street hospital was demolished and replaced by a new Sunshine Hospital on Furlong Road in St Albans, while the hospital in Footscray was renamed the Western Hospital. In 1996, both hospitals became part of the Western Health Care Network, which was expanded in 1997 to become the North Western Health Care Network, and then reduced in size in 2000 to become Western Health.