Hospitals

These conditions apply equally to both public and private hospitals.

In the event where a declaration is sought for matters described above, for best administrative practice and to assist the Minister for Health and Ageing (or Minister’s delegate) in deciding whether to declare that a facility is a hospital, the facility is required to provide the following evidence:

For public hospitals

• Public Information Form, and
• Copy of an accreditation certificate (or evidence that accreditation process has commenced)

For private hospitals

• Private Hospital Information Form
• Copy of state/territory hospital licence, and
• Copy of an accreditation certificate (or evidence that accreditation process has commenced)

Note: Under the circumstances where a new private hospital is located on the same ground as a public hospital, or located within the public hospital buildings; the co-located hospitals, both public and private hospitals are also required to complete the Co-located Form, a copy of which can be requested by emailing Hospital Declarations. This is in addition to the above listed requirements.

For further information regarding the hospital declaration process, please email Hospital Declarations.

Hospital Provider Number

A hospital provider number is a unique identifier number, allocated by the Medicare Australia upon the Department’s request on behalf of a declared hospital. The issuance of a provider number is directly linked to the hospital declaration by the Minister of Health and Ageing (or Minister’s delegate), in that, only a facility that has been declared as a hospital will be issued a hospital provider number.

Current Listing of Commonwealth declared hospitals

Please email Hospital Declarations if you wish to obtain a current listing of Commonwealth declared public hospitals, private hospitals and day hospital facilities.