During its 90-year life, it trained hundreds of midwives and doctors, and was a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney.

The Canonbury annex was demolished around 1983, with the site redeveloped as part of McKell Park.

[3] Founded by Dr James Graham[4][5] in 1893, the Women's Hospital was then in Hay Street and it had two beds for the "genteel poor".

Initial funding of the Women's Hospital came from public subscription, obstetric nurse training and student fees, with assistance from the Government in obtaining furniture and surgical instruments.

[citation needed] The hospital's nurseries were divided into five categories: D, Premature, Adoption, Founders Isolation and Main.