Ray of light amid darkening health crisis South Australia recorded its second-worst month for ambulance ramping in March but one hospital is bucking the trend to show a way out of the crisis. AAP · Apr 2, 2024
COVID wave shows no sign of abating in SA, stats reveal ambulance ramping again on the rise Predictions of an end to South Australia's current COVID wave appear dashed, with the state recording another jump in cases and deaths at the same times as ambulance figures show an increase in ramping across the hospital system. ABC News · Dec 9, 2022
Craigmore teen dies after car crashes into fence at Edinburgh RAAF Base, 16-year-old charged Police say three people were seen running from the car and a 17-year-old was found on the ground next to it. ABC News · Sep 13, 2022
Craigmore boy whose death is being investigated suffered stomach pains, cardiac arrest before dying, his family says The father of a young Adelaide boy whose death is being investigated by police has spoken of the "saddest day" of his life when he laid his son to rest. ABC News · Aug 1, 2022
Girl, 6, dies in suspected 'House of Horrors' as new details emerge of 'malnutrition' The tragic case has been compared to the 2008 'House of horrors' Adelaide incident when 21 children were found to be living with six adults from three families in an infested home Daily Mirror · Jul 19, 2022
Dogs to sniff out COVID-19 in patients and visitors at Adelaide's Lyell McEwin Hospital Four dogs will be deployed at a major Adelaide hospital to sniff visitors for COVID-19, after similar trials at airports last year. ABC News · Jun 8, 2022
SA ambulance statistics reveal ramping delays have reached record high South Australia records its worst ambulance ramping delays to date with more than 3,000 hours lost to it last month as the state government announces its strategy to get the state through winter. ABC News · Jun 6, 2022
Long COVID clinics established to manage chronic symptoms weeks after infection Described as a pandemic within a pandemic, long COVID is presenting challenges to the nation's health system. Authorities in SA are now putting their plans for a rise in cases into action. ABC News · May 10, 2022
Elderly woman waits outside Lyell McEwin Hospital in cold for hours as Flinders Medical Centre promised upgrade under Labor South Australia's Premier says "it's not good enough" that the 92-year-old aunt of one of his MPs waited two hours outside an Adelaide hospital last night. He has welcomed funding for another hospital in Adelaide's south. ABC News · May 9, 2022
SA father restricted from visiting newborn twins at Lyell McEwin Hospital A grandmother of newborn twins born at the Lyell McEwin Hospital warns SA's Premier he will need to boost the mental health budget for stressed mothers after her son-in-law was denied access to his babies and wife. ABC News · Jan 27, 2022
Stressful time for women giving birth as Lyell McEwin Hospital strictly limits partners' access A new rule at an Adelaide hospital to only allow women to have their partner with them while in active labour and four hours after their baby's birth angers expecting parents, who are calling for it to be scrapped. ABC News · Jan 19, 2022