Shellharbour Hospital provides medical, surgical, obstetric, emergency and psychiatry services to the Shoalhaven and northern Illawarra region, operating 87 beds and a 8-bed Day Surgery unit and 69 mental health in-patient beds.

[1] It also operates a satellite dialysis unit, and is also a leading provider of gynaecological and laparoscopic surgery in the Southern region.

[5] Shellharbour Hospital opened in 1986 by Neville Wran, after many years of lobbying and at a cost of A$22 million.

"[8] In 2007 the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) revoked the hospital's accreditation for employing and teaching basic physician trainees due to inadequate supervision, as there were not enough senior staff employed.

[5] The hospital submitted a request to regain its status in 2008,[9] and the RACP restored its training role for 12 months.