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.
Behind the scenes.
1940s and 1950s snapshot photographs of Maitland Hospital maintenance, kitchen and laundry staff.
Did we really look like this?
Photographs and memories of the fundraising hospital revues organised by the hospital’s CEO Ron Pickett in the early 1980s.
We’re waiting with you.
Photographs from the Maitland Hospital Collection that capture moments of waiting, watching, helping and lounging around as well as celebratory and commemorative occasions. Prints of the photographs are now on the walls of the Outpatient wait areas in the new Maitland Hospital.
Nurse Finney.
Nancy Finney’s daughters share photographs and memories about their Mum’s training and work as a nurse at Maitland Hospital from 1933 to 1944.
Pathology 2021.
Catharine Neilson’s photographs of the hospital’s pathology unit taken in mid-2021.
Occupational therapy 2021.
Catharine Neilson’s photographs of the Maitland Hospital’s occupational therapists, their equipment and facilities.
Medical imaging 2021.
Catharine Neilson’s photographs of the Medical Imaging Unit taken in January 2021.
Executive suite 2020-2021.
Catharine Neilson’s photographs of staff in the Executive Suite and their offices at different times during 2020 and 2021.
Dental clinic 2021.
Catharine Neilson’s photographs of the hospital’s Dental Clinic taken on 24 May 2021.
Volunteers 2021.
Catharine Neilson’s photographs of Maitland Hospital Volunteers during 2020 and 2021.
Catering 2021.
Catharine Neilson’s photographs of the hospital kitchen and the cafeteria in 2021.
A grand ruckus.
Kelvin Russell on his great-great-grandfather James Charles Russell who was resident surgeon at the Maitland Hospital for a short and tension-ridden period in 1859-1860.
Picturing the hospital in 2020-2021.
Catharine Neilson’s photographs of Maitland Hospital during its last eighteen months at the High Street site.
First matron.
Susan O’Doherty’s textile sculpture of Maitland Hospital’s first matron, Elizabeth Morrow, is the core of a display in the new Maitland Hospital about Morrow and what she represents in the history of nursing at the hospital and elsewhere.
Hospital staff.
Adrian Lockhart’s painting ‘Hospital staff’ and a small collection of items are displayed in the new Maitland Hospital in honour of the staff who, in their many and varied roles, have provided health care throughout the history of the hospital.
A new timeline.
The timeline created for the opening of the New Maitland Hospital in January 2022.
The smell of porridge.
Paediatrician Keith Howard shares his memories of working in the children’s ward at Maitland Hospital from the late 1970s to 2014.
The way we were.
A timeline for the history of nursing and nurse education at Maitland Hospital.
Three generations.
Tom Healy on his family’s association with The Maitland Hospital over three generations.
Inspired by the people.
Art works by Adrian Lockhart inspired by the people who work and have worked at the Maitland Hospital. The art works are included in the exhibition A Conspicuous Object at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery.