| Monash Medical Centre | |
| The main entrance to Monash Medical Centre | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public Medicare (AU) |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | Monash University Faculty of Medicine |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | I |
| History | |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Links | |
| Website | www.southernhealth.org.au/mmc.htm |
| Lists | Hospitals in Australia |
Monash Medical Centres (MMC) is a multicampus teaching hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Clayton campus is located in Clayton, whilst the Moorabbin Campus is at Bentleigh East. It provides specialist care to the State's south-east, including the south-east suburbs of Melbourne. Monash Medical centre is part of Southern Health, the largest public health service in Victoria.
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Monash Medical Centres was formed in 1987 with the amalgamation of the "Queen Victoria Medical Centre" (an obstetric and gynaecological hospital), "Prince Henry's Hospital" (a general hospital) and "Moorabbin Hospital".
The Mental Health Program of Southern Health is one of the largest mental health services in Victoria providing comprehensive mental health services for all age groups for the people living in the South eastern region of Melbourne. Mental health program works in close collaboration with Monash University School of Psychiatry, Psychology and Psychological Medicine. The Mental Health Program provides 100 acute adult inpatient beds in three hospitals, 20 bed intensive secure and extended care beds, 40 beds community rehabilitation services beds, 8 Mother and Baby and Eating Disorder beds, Crisis Assessment and Treatment Teams (CATT) based at Clayton, Dandenong and Berwick, Community mental health services (CCT, MSTT), Emergency Psychiatric services based at the major hospitals, primary care psychiatry, specialist gender dysphoria services, Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services and extensive Consultation & liaison psychiatry services.
Mental health program is the largest post graduate training for RANZCP training program in Melbourne. The program employs 45 Consultant psychiatrists and 35 psychiatry trainees. There is an extensive teaching program for all levels of trainees.
The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre provides radiotherapy services at the Moorabbin campus.
MonashHeart provides cardiology related services and cardiac care at the Clayton campus.
As a large tertiary referral hospital it provides neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, and houses intensive care units treating neonatal, paediatric and adult patients. MMC has a particular interest in In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) and the treatment of obesity.
It has a 21 bed Intensive Care Unit (mixed between adults and children), an even larger Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and 16 peripheral High Dependecy Unit beds throughout the hospital. The Intensive Care Unit specialises in both post-cardiac surgery and post-neurosurgical care, as well as severe sepsis and acute medical illness management. It also has a high number of patients with chronic renal failure related illness.
The Emergency Department in Monash Medical Centre triages over 65,000 patients per annum (2008 figures - children and adults combined).
The hospital is highly involved with advanced medical training, including accredited training programs for all medical specialties and boasts excellent pass rates across all specialty training programs.
It is associated with Monash University, with eight departments based there, being the centrepiece of the Centre's research projects. Other research institutions at the Monash Medical Centre are the Monash Institute of Medical Research, Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research and the Monash Institute of Health Services Research.[1]