Flowers to Mount Lawley Hospital in Perth

If you last sent flowers here a year ago, the name on the gate has changed. St John of God Mt Lawley Hospital became Mount Lawley Hospital on 1 September 2026, when the Western Australian Government bought it and brought it into the public system under the East Metropolitan Health Service and the Royal Perth Bentley Mount Lawley Group. The building, the address and most of the staff are the same: 5 Thirlmere Road, Mount Lawley WA 6050, on the Swan River about four kilometres from the Perth CBD. Florists in Mount Lawley, Inglewood and Maylands deliver there daily and will recognise either name on an order.

A hospital with a long memory

The site opened in April 1937 as St Anne's, run by the Sisters of Mercy, became Mercy Hospital in 1996 and was bought by St John of God Health Care in 2013, trading as St John of God Mt Lawley from May 2014 until the 2026 handover. Today Mount Lawley Hospital provides 196 public beds for general medicine, rehabilitation, geriatric care, older adult mental health, surgery, day procedures and endoscopy. It has no emergency department; the nearest are Royal Perth Hospital and St John of God Midland. Many of its patients are older people on rehabilitation stays of a week or more, which makes it one of the more flower-friendly hospitals in Perth.

Visiting hours and how deliveries work

Permitted visiting hours are 10am to 7pm. The florist delivers within business hours and hands the bouquet to the front desk or the ward clerk, who takes it to the bed. To arrange anything outside visiting hours, the hospital asks you to phone the switchboard on 9370 9222 and ask for the ward; the same number is the one to use for checking whether flowers are allowed in a particular unit before you order. Give the patient's full name, the ward and, if you know it, the room number, and address the order to Mount Lawley Hospital, 5 Thirlmere Road.

Wards that usually decline flowers

The hospital has not published a flower policy of its own since the handover, so treat the usual Australian rules as the guide. Any high-dependency or coronary care bed refuses flowers and plants, and so do most units caring for people with weakened immunity. Older adult mental health units may restrict glass vases, in which case the florist can deliver a hand-tied bouquet or one in a plastic container. Rehabilitation and general surgical wards almost always say yes. Because the switch to public management is recent, ward rules may still be settling, which is one more reason to ask.

Mount Lawley and the other Perth hospitals

People searching for flowers to a St John of God hospital in Perth sometimes land here while the patient is at St John of God Subiaco, Murdoch or Midland, which remain private or co-located hospitals run by St John of God Health Care, or at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Murdoch, a large public hospital with far stricter ward rules. Check the admission letter or ask the family which hospital it is, because a bouquet sent to the wrong one is rarely forwarded.

Ordering in Perth time

Order before 2pm on a weekday or 10am on a Saturday, Perth time, and a local florist can deliver the same day, Monday to Saturday. To a hospital, same day is never guaranteed. From the eastern states, remember Perth is two or three hours behind, so a mid-afternoon order from Melbourne can still make the Perth cut-off. Bouquets start at around AUD 75; the delivery fee is shown at checkout. Keep it compact and low-scent, in its own water.

Did you know? Established in April 1937 as St Anne's by the Sisters of Mercy, the hospital became St John of God Mt Lawley in 2014 and joined the public system as Mount Lawley Hospital on 1 September 2026.