The following memories and stories about the Maitland Hospital emerged from background research, and from being shared by artists, staff, volunteers, patients and community members.
Measuring, diagnosing, treating.
A selection of medical and surgical equipment from the Maitland Hospital Collection.
Maternity, birthing and special care 2021.
Catharine Neilson photographs of the Maternity, Birthing and Special Care Units taken during 2021.
Only one toilet to use.
Faith Simon shares changing experiences of giving birth at the Maitland Hospital.
Birthing at Maitland Hospital.
Lesley Salem’s creative response to stories of birthing at Maitland Hospital. Her painting can be viewed in the exhibition A Conspicuous Object at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
Bright colours and natural light.
The hexagonal building constructed as the new maternity wing and opened in 1978.
My aunts trained at the hospital.
Diane Klasen tells the stories of her aunts, Reta and Pat Fleming, who both trained as nurses at The Maitland Hospital.
A Mother’s Day baby.
Miranda Lawry reflects on her third daughter’s birth at Maitland Hospital on Mother’s Day 1993.
Maternity Nurse.
Introducing Susan O’Doherty’s soft sculpture representing motherhood and midwives at The Maitland Hospital.
Babies … came flying out of that shute!
Maitland residents’ memories of the maternity ward at Maitland Hospital.