About us

Located in one of Australia’s fastest growing regions, Caboolture Hospital is a trusted healthcare provider for Caboolture and the Moreton Bay area.

The hospital is an integral part of Metro North Health, the largest hospital and health service in Australia.

Caboolture Hospital employs more than 2400 multidisciplinary staff who are highly skilled to deliver an extensive range of clinical services across a range of specialties.

The hospital offers a range of medical, emergency, surgical, maternity, paediatrics, gynaecology, critical care, mental health, palliative care and allied health services.

A recent redevelopment is delivering new services, new staff and an exciting new future – including an emergency department that has a footprint of more than three hectares.

Our paediatric health services, including a dedicated children’s emergency department, ensure that healthcare is accessible and tailored for families.

The hospital also works closely with colleagues at Kilcoy Hospital and Caboolture and Bribie Island Satellite Health Centres to provide holistic care.

This means our community can receive kind and compassionate healthcare when they need it, close to home.

Let us take care of you.

Our values

Caboolture Hospital provides excellence in healthcare through:

• Respect
• Teamwork
• Compassion
• High Performance
• Integrity

Our performance

We publish information about how our hospital is performing on the Queensland Health Our Performance website.

You’ll find information about:

• beds and staff we have at each hospital
• how many people we see in our emergency and specialists departments
• waiting times for appointments and treatment.

Woodford Correctional Health Service

The Woodford Correctional Health Service (WCHS) aims to provide the best possible health care for people in prison. In doing so it seeks to assist people in prison to experience the best health possible, improve their well-being and future life prospects. By improving the health of people whilst in prison, it will contribute to improving the health of the wider community upon release.

The WCHS is a primary health model focused on enabling person-centred care to address specific health needs for incarcerated patients. Patients can complete a Health Service request to initiate health care and see a specific health care professional for their related needs. Referrals to each of the services is coordinated by the nursing team via a triage process and is monitored using the Hospital Based Corporate Information System (HBCIS).

Staff at the WCHS include Medical Officers (General Practitioners, Emergency Department Consultants, and Visiting Medical Officers), Nurse Practitioners (Primary Health, Mental Health, and Addiction Services) and Clinical & Registered Nurses.

The services include:

• Chronic Disease Management
• Comprehensive Care & Health Promotion
• Sexual Health & Men’s Health
• Blood Borne Virus
• Infection Control Immunisation
• Diabetes Mellitis Management
• Medication Management
• Pathology Collection
• Addiction Services
• Oral Health Dentist
• Optometrist
• Prison Mental Health (coordinated through West Moreton Health)

The WCHS is staffed 24 hours per day and responds to all medical emergencies (Code Blue). Referral to the Metro North Virtual Emergency Department (VED) can occur when service demands require the additional support. All emergency transfers are conducted via Queensland Ambulance Service and non-life-threatening transfers are via Queensland Corrective Services (QCS) transport unit.

Patients that require ongoing care are referred to Caboolture Hospital with further referrals to other Metro North hospitals (dependant on the care needs of the patient).

Staff from the WCHS work closely with Queensland Correctional Services (QCS) to ensure safe and timely treatment of patients. The WCHS also work closely with QCS Offender Development to ensure that a coordinated level of care can be provided to high risk (self-harm/ mental health) patients.