25-748: Divisions Sydney Adventist Hospital , commonly known as the San , is a large private hospital in Sydney, Australia, located on Fox Valley Road in Wahroonga . Established on 1 January 1903, as a not-for-profit organisation, it was originally named the Sydney Sanitarium from which its colloquial name was derived. The hospital is operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church , whose South Pacific Division headquarters are located in
50-529: A large range of outpatient services, including physiotherapy , cardiac rehabilitation, pathology , radiology , ultrasound (including San Ultrasound for Women), nuclear medicine, wound care, radiation oncology, dietitian services, and an on-site family medical and dental centre. Wahroonga, New South Wales Wahroonga is a suburb in the Upper North Shore of Sydney , in the state of New South Wales , Australia , 18 kilometres north-west of
75-530: Is a small sporting oval, formerly a historic logging area. Sir Robert Menzies Park is a small park located within Fox Valley. Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park is located north of Wahroonga. It is the second oldest national park in Australia and is very popular, offering many walking tracks, picnic spots and Aboriginal sites with rock carvings. The park has a large proportion of the known Aboriginal sites in
100-798: Is a timber house designed by John Horbury Hunt and built in 1891 for Alfred Hordern. Hunt was a Canadian architect who used the Arts and Crafts style and the Shingle Style popular in North America. Highlands is listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register and was listed on the (now defunct) Register of the National Estate . Architect William Hardy Wilson designed and built his own home, Purulia , on Fox Valley Road. Built in 1913,
125-734: Is also a commercial area at the intersection of Fox Valley Road and The Comenarra Parkway which contains the Sydney Adventist Hospital , Globalstar 's Australian office, and the offices of the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists . Sporting representation in Wahroonga often differs between the Ku-ring-gai Council and Hornsby Shire . Wahroonga is home to Knox Grammar School a traditional Rugby Union . In Rugby League Wahroonga
150-671: Is listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register. 'The Briars' is connected to Napoleon Bonaparte ; the house having been built for a grandson of the East India Company Agent who hosted Napoleon at the start of his exile. The house possesses some architectural similarities, and shares its name, with the building on St Helena . The Rose Seidler House , in Clissold Road, built by Harry Seidler between 1948 and 1950,
175-724: Is located in the district of the North Sydney Bears , officially the North Sydney District Rugby League Football Club. Despite exiting from the NRL after the 1999 season , North Sydney remains the only Rugby League team without NRL Representation to have a junior rugby league district, in which clubs compete in a joint district competition with clubs in the Manly Warringah District , and teams in Wahroonga are
200-525: The Sydney central business district , in the local government areas of Ku-ring-gai Council and Hornsby Shire . North Wahroonga is an adjacent separate suburb of the same postcode. Wahroonga is an Aboriginal word meaning our home , likely originating from the Kuringgai language group. Early British colonists of New South Wales utilized the area for its tall trees. Wahroonga was first colonised by
225-529: The 1920s and 1930s. Today, Wahroonga exists primarily as a garden suburb. Its tree-lined streets retain much of its state-heritage historic houses in styles of residential architecture . Wahroonga is known for its tree-lined, shady streets and well maintained gardens. Notable streets include Water Street, Burns Road, Iloura Avenue and Billyard Avenue. Wahroonga has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Highlands , in Highlands Avenue,
250-416: The 576 to Turramurra Station. Wahroonga Park is located to the north-east of the railway station, and features a significant number of well established introduced trees, a rose garden and a children's playground. The Glade, located near Abbotsleigh, has an oval, two tennis courts, a half basketball court and cricket nets. There is also a small Blue Gum High Forest , next to the tennis courts. Browns Field
275-596: The British in 1822 by Thomas Hyndes, a convict who later became a wealthy landowner. Hyndes's land was later acquired by John Brown, a merchant and timber-getter. After Brown had cleared the land of timber, he planted orchards. Later, Ada, Lucinda and Roland Avenues were named after three of his children. His name is in Browns Road, Browns Field and Browns Waterhole on the Lane Cove River . The last member of
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#1732782867095300-581: The Brown family was Gertrude Mary Appleton, who died in 2008 at the age of ninety-three. She is buried in the cemetery of St John the Baptist Church, Gordon . After the North Shore railway line was opened in 1890 it became a popular place for wealthy businessmen to build out-of-town residences with large gardens. Wahroonga Post Office opened on 15 October 1896. Much of this development occurred in
325-625: The Federation Bungalow style, it has been described as "unpretentious and solidly comfortable." Between Craignairn and Malvern in Burns Road, Joseland also built Coolabah , another fine Federation Bungalow example. The Briars , in Woonona Avenue, is built on land that was granted to John Hughes in 1842, and later divided into four estates. Jessie Edith Balcombe built The Briars on one of these estates in 1895. It
350-576: The Federation mansion Rippon Grange , designed by Howard Joseland . The Gatehouse is listed on the local government heritage register. Craignairn , at the corner of Burns Road and Cleveland Street, was also designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Howard Joseland. The client was Walter Strang. Joseland also built his own home Malvern two doors away from the Strang home in Burns Road. An example of
375-741: The Hospital formalised their outreach work in third world countries amongst disadvantaged sick men, women and children by launching the HealthCare Outreach (HCO) Program with the Operation Open Heart inaugural trip to Tonga. Since then almost 100 HCO trips to 13 countries have been made with over 2,850 surgeries performed. In 2007 the 21st anniversary of the first trip was celebrated. Surgeries have now been expanded to cover cleft palate defect repair, orthopaedic surgery, burns scar contracture repair, and uterine prolapse. In 2005
400-713: The Ku-ring-gai Cubs, who represent the vast majority of Wahroonga, and the Asquith Magpies who represent the Hornsby Shire parts of the suburb Wahroonga railway station is on the North Shore railway line , with frequent Sydney Trains services to Central and Hornsby . Wahroonga is the Sydney end of the M1 Motorway to Newcastle . The Pacific Highway connects Wahroonga by road with
425-479: The San. The hospital is the base for the nursing course offered by Avondale University . Sydney Sanitarium was founded by american missionary and physician Lauretta E. Kress . It opened in Wahroonga on 1 January 1903 with a bed capacity of 70 and was known as a ‘home of health’ and as a place where people learned to stay well. The original Hospital building was designed by Dr Merritt Kellogg , brother of Dr John Harvey Kellogg . The Sanitarium became widely known as
450-674: The Sydney area. Primary: Secondary: K–12: According to the 2021 census , there were 17,853 residents in Wahroonga. 59.3% of people were born in Australia, the most common other countries of birth were China (excluding Special Administrative Regions and Taiwan ) 8.2%, England 4.9%, India 2.9%, South Africa 2.6% and Hong Kong 1.9%. 67.9% of people only spoke English at home, other languages spoken at home included Mandarin (10.2%), Cantonese (3.5%), Korean (1.8%), Hindi (1.4%) and Persian (1.3%). The most common responses for religion in Wahroonga were No Religion 35.5%, Catholic 19.5%, Anglican 16.4% and Uniting Church 3.7%;
475-693: The home is in the Colonial Revival style and became, according to some observers, a prototype for North Shore homes. It is listed on the Register of the National Estate. Berith Park , in Billyard Avenue, was designed by F. Ernest Stowe for Alfred Smith, who bought the land in 1897. The house was finished circa 1909. Westholme , in Water Street, was designed by Howard Joseland in the Arts and Crafts style for John Bennett, one of
500-538: The hospital in the Home program commenced at the San. In 2006 the San won the prestigious national Australian Private Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence (70 beds and over). The San also become home to the Southern Hemisphere's first Dual Source Computerised Tomography Scanner in the same year. Sydney Adventist Hospital offers acute surgical, medical and obstetric care. Services include: SAH also offers
525-483: The immediate vicinity of the San. The hospital offers a broad range of acute medical, surgical, diagnostic, outpatient, support and wellness services, including Executive Health Checks at the Fox Valley Medical & Dental Centre. As a not-for-profit health care facility, 2,200 staff and 700 accredited medical officers provide services for more than 50,000 inpatients and over 160,000 outpatients annually at
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#1732782867095550-488: The pioneer developers of Wahroonga. Bennett came from England but migrated to Australia with his wife and acquired property at Wahroonga in 1893. Westholme was built in 1894. Another house was added at the other end of the block, but this was demolished in 1991 after changing hands several times. The Gatehouse , in Water Street, was originally part of the John Williams Hospital. The hospital also includes
575-566: The rest of the North Shore and Pennant Hills Road 's northern end begins in Wahroonga and intersects the M1 Motorway at Pearce's Corner. The Comenarra Parkway is a minor arterial road that stretches from Thornleigh to West Pymble via Wahroonga and South Turramurra . Wahroonga is also the northern end of the NorthConnex motorway tunnel. CDC NSW 's Upper North Shore services provide sporadic bus services to parts of Wahroonga such as
600-622: The ‘San’, and today, many years after its 1973 official name change to Sydney Adventist Hospital, it is still colloquially referred to as ‘the San’ Hospital. The hospital was rebuilt in 1973 and became an acute care institution. Today, with 494 licensed overnight beds, it is the largest single campus private hospital in NSW and was the first private hospital in NSW to be accredited by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards. In 1986
625-632: Was one of the first examples of modern residential architecture in Australia. The main shopping and commercial area is the Wahroonga Village located adjacent to the west side of the railway station. It has a variety of stores including several cafes, restaurants, health stores and boutiques as well as an IGA supermarket . The smaller commercial centres are the Hampden Avenue shopping strip in east Wahroonga, and Fox Valley Shopping Centre on Fox Valley Road in south west Wahroonga. There
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