The South Metropolitan Health Service (SMHS) delivers hospital and community-based public health care services to nearly a quarter of WA’s population across 9 local government areas in southern metropolitan Perth (PDF 2MB). In addition, SMHS provides services to WA Country Health Service (WACHS) patients from the Great Southern, South West, Southern Wheatbelt and Goldfields.

We provide a wide range of services through our hospital network and community-based services.

A snapshot of SMHS services in 2021/22

Throughout 2021/22, SMHS staff provided the following care and treatment across our community:

• Our emergency departments treated 224,149 emergency presentations, including 48,499 presentations for children.
• 5,496 babies were born during the year, including 66 multiple births.
• We treated 2,654 mental health inpatients.
• Our surgical teams performed more than 57,701 surgeries.
• 843,703 outpatient appointments were delivered, including 283,079 via telehealth or telephone.
• Our intensive care teams treated 2,858 admissions.
• 155,710 community mental health engagements,
• 358,868 COVID-19 vaccinations were administered.

See a snapshot of the services provided by SMHS in 2021/22.

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