About Bethesda
Bethesda is an independent private hospital group providing leading medical, surgical and palliative care across two hospitals in Perth. For more than 80 years, we have cared for Western Australians with compassion, clinical excellence and a patient-centred approach.
Today, Bethesda Claremont Hospital and Bethesda Mount Hospital operate as one organisation with a shared commitment to quality healthcare. Together, we are Western Australia’s leading private provider of specialist palliative care, acute surgical, cardiology and cardiac surgery supported by the largest private Critical Care Unit (CCU).
Eighty Years of Care, Compassion and Commitment
With a dedication to our longstanding tradition of excellence, our team works hard to ensure exceptional patient care. Bethesda has been providing care and services to the Western Australian community for over 80 years.
Bethesda Health Care remains the only organisation and health provider in Western Australia to receive and retain seven consecutive WorkSafe WA Platinum Status Awards for Excellence. We are committed to patient and staff safety across the organisation.
Bethesda Health Care are the 2023 recipient of the Australian Private Hospitals Association Award for Excellence. The award recognises our dedication to staff engagement and wellbeing.
In 2025, Bethesda's Metropolitan Palliative Care Consultancy Service (MPaCCS) won two categories in the Palliative Care WA Awards 2025. Bethesda in collaboration with WACHS won the Outstanding Achievement in Palliative Care for Aboriginal Communities Award for our work in the Pilbara. MPaCCS's nurse Tho Swotwa won the Emerging Leader in Palliative Care Award.
Always Part of the Community
Our story began more than 80 years ago with Matron Beryl Hill.
In 1943, Matron Beryl Hill returned from missionary service in the Himalayan Mountains with a calling to establish a place of medical and spiritual care for vulnerable community members. Committed to this calling, she developed a partnership with a local church, Subiaco Church of Christ, who shared her passion for helping the vulnerable.
With the church's support, a small community Hospital with 14 beds was established in Subiaco - it was later renamed 'Bethesda' and relocated to Claremont.
Today, the community spirit and sense of purpose has remained with those who are associated with Bethesda. We are a modern, vibrant healthcare community, with a reputation for exceptional quality and personalised care.