Royal Adelaide Hospital

Royal Adelaide Hospital
Geography
Location	Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Organisation
Care system	Medicare
Type	General, Teaching
Affiliated university	University of Adelaide
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	800
Helipads
Helipad	ICAO: YXAA
Number Length Surface ft m 1 concrete 2 concrete
History
Opened	Original building 1840; new building 2017
Links
Website	www.rah.sa.gov.au

The Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH), colloquially known by its initials or pronounced as "the Rah", is South Australia's largest hospital, owned by the state government as part of Australia's public health care system. The RAH provides tertiary health care services for South Australia and provides secondary care clinical services to residents of Adelaide's central metropolitan area, which includes the inner suburbs.

The original Adelaide Hospital was built in 1840 at the eastern end of North Terrace, Adelaide, with its first building superseded in 1856 and many alterations and additions over the following 175 years. It was prefixed by the "Royal" in 1939. In 2017 it was replaced by the new hospital, built at the western end of North Terrace. The new hospital is the most expensive building^[1] ever built in Australia, and the most expensive hospital^[2] ever built anywhere in the world, at US$2.44 billion in construction and equipment costs. The redevelopment on the site of the old RAH is known as Lot Fourteen.