page_title: Rockhampton Base Hospital
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Rockhampton Base Hospital / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Nursing staff at Rockhampton Hospital, ca. 1908.
context_page_description: Rockhampton Base Hospital is the largest major hospital in Central Queensland, Australia. Operated by Queensland Health as a public hospital, the hospital offers a wide range of medical services to a population of about 230,000 throughout the Rockhampton, Gladstone, the Capricorn Coast and Emerald communities.
context_section_description: The Rockhampton Hospital site at The Range was established in 1867, and was the second site of a hospital in the city. However, none of the buildings from the 19th century survive. The present buildings of the hospital are from the 20th and 21st century. Two of the 20th century buildings are heritage listed:
  a medical superintendent's residence constructed in 1936
  the Therapies Building (a former Outpatients Department incorporating the purpose-built Kenny Clinic built in 1938 to implement the physical therapies of Sister Elizabeth Kenny for the treatment of poliomyelitis)
caption: Nursing staff at Rockhampton Hospital, circa 1908
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