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At 30 June 2006, there were 948 private hospital beds in Tasmania. The majority of these beds, 65.5%, were located in hospitals in the Greater Hobart-Southern Region, while 28.2% were in Northern Region hospitals, and 6.3% were in hospitals in the Mersey-Lyell Region.

PRIVATE HOSPITAL BEDS, Tasmanian regions - 30 June 2006
			Beds available
			Overnight acute	Day acute	Other	Total
Hospital		Hospital type	no.	no.	no.	no.
Greater Hobart-Southern
	Calvary - South	General	269	48	-	317
	Hobart Private	General	142	15	-	157
	St Helens	General	100	10	-	110
	Hobart Day Surgery	Day surgery	-	7	-	7
	Hobart Clinic	Acute psychiatric	-	-	30	30
	Total	. .	511	80	30	621
Northern
	Calvary - North	General	228	31		259
	The Eye Hospital	Day Surgery	-	2	-	2
	Oaken House	Palliative Care	-	-	6	6
	Total	. .	228	33	6	267
Mersey-Lyell
	North West Private	General	56	4	-	60
	Total	. .	56	4	-	60
Tasmania		. .	795	117	36	948
- nil or rounded to zero . . not applicable