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== Health ==
[[File:AUS Perth, Fremantle, South Terrace 001.jpg|thumb|Fremantle Hospital]]
The major health service facility in Fremantle is [[Fremantle Hospital]], located at Alma Street, a short walk from the city centre. Fremantle Hospital is a 450-bed major acute-care teaching hospital with important tertiary links. The 24-hour emergency department was closed in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=Your Hospital Stay|url=http://www.fhhs.health.wa.gov.au/patients/stay.aspx|work=Fremantle Hospital & Health Service|publisher=Fremantle Hospital}}</ref> It is Western Australia's referral hospital for diving and [[hyperbaric]] medicine, and has a [[cardiothoracic surgery]] centre and nuclear medicine department. It also has a 66-bed mental health facility.

As a tertiary teaching hospital, Fremantle Hospital provides almost all specialty services on site and clinical services are backed by an extensive teaching program. As well as routine departmental and hospital-wide teaching, formal postgraduate courses are offered.<ref>{{cite web|title=Education and Research|url=http://www.fhhs.health.wa.gov.au/education/default.aspx|work=Fremantle Hospital & Health Services|publisher=Fremantle Hospital|access-date=26 February 2013}}</ref> Emergency nursing, critical care nursing, perioperative nursing and infection control courses are held regularly and a postgraduate weekend for general practitioners is held every October.<ref>{{cite web|title=Education and Research|url=http://www.fhhs.health.wa.gov.au/education/default.aspx|work=Fremantle Hospital & Health Service|publisher=Fremantle Hospital|access-date=26 February 2013}}</ref>