Alfred Hospital

Nothing but admiration for the nurses and staff of ward 7 West. I had nothing less than excellent care during a recent admission and wouldn’t have had it any other way.
You don’t often get to choose when or where you visit hospital as a patient but rest assured if you’re at the Alfred, you’re in good hands.

How does one review a hospital? On the very bright side — I can attest to the amazing skills of staff in the ICU and ED. And the clinics. And according to my husband, the patient, the path lab staff are some of the best ‘needle peeps’ he has to deal with.
Great on-​site services (post-​mart, bookshop, pop up shops, reliable café and pharmacy.)
There’s even a choice of cafés — cafeteria style Alf’s which offers a quite excellent and well priced range of nom noms following the ‘traffic light’ system (read: everything from potato cakes to brown rice sushi). The salad and juice bars deserve a special mention — not a typical hospital offering (from my experience) and very appreciated by frequent visitors.
The dedicated caffeine bar works just as well as you’d expect in a place filled with shift working, high performing professionals who, as a matter of fact, may be performing brain surgery.
Alfretti’s is a bit fancier, noisier, and more like an outside world café.
Ultimately, I hope you don’t need to be at any hospital for extended or repeated visits, but if you do, The Alfred definitely holds its own in the food and bev department.