Ipswich Hospital has 351 beds and has specialities including anaesthetics, emergency, medicine, surgery, intensive and coronary care, orthopaedics, obstetrics, paediatrics, palliative care, rehabilitation, mental health and allied health services.

1980 The Ipswich Triage Scale developed by Dr Gerry Fitzgerald for the Ipswich Emergency Department in the 1980s, became the basis of the Australasian National Triage Scale adopted by the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and the Australian Government.

2006 The Government of Queensland announced a further expansion of Ipswich Hospital with an additional 84 beds at a cost of $122 million.

[2] The hospital had 304 beds with more than 35,000 admissions and treated approximately 49,000 people per year as one of Queensland's busiest emergency departments.

The Government of Queensland committed $122 million to accommodate an additional 84 beds and associated facilities.