Monash Medical Centre

Monash Medical Centre
The main entrance to Monash Medical Centre
Geography
Location	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates	37°55′10″S 145°07′17″E / 37.9194°S 145.1214°E / -37.9194; 145.1214Coordinates: 37°55′10″S 145°07′17″E / 37.9194°S 145.1214°E / -37.9194; 145.1214
Organisation
Care system	Public Medicare (AU)
Hospital type	Teaching
Affiliated university	Monash University
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	640
History
Founded	1987
Links
Website	www.monashhealth.org/page/Monash_Medical_Centre
Lists	Hospitals in Australia

Monash Medical Centre (MMC) is a teaching hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It provides specialist tertiary-level healthcare to the Melbourne's south-east.

Monash Medical Centre is part of Monash Health, the largest public health service in Victoria.

Monash Medical Centre 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".

MonashHeart provides cardiology related services and cardiac care at the Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, and at Dandenong Hospital. MonashHeart is the busiest interventional cardiology service in the state, providing coronary angiography and coronary angioplasty services to the entire south eastern area of the state. MonashHeart is the largest non-invasive imaging service in Victoria, performing nearly 14,000 echocardiograms each year for newborns through to adults.

Acute cardiac inpatient services are provided across the network. There is a 21 bed cardiac care unit at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, which manages a high case load of ST-elevation acute myocardial infarctions, with a daily case load of 3-4 cases not being unusual; A 12 bed cardiac care unit at Dandenong Hospital, which shares the coronary angiography and angioplasty services with Monash Medical Centre, Clayton; A 24 bed combined cardiology and cardiothoracic unit, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton which manages all the post op cardiothoracic cases, as well as other general cardiology cases.

MonashHeart became a luminary site for the 320-slice Toshiba Aquilion One CT scanner in September 2008, the first health service to do so in the southern hemisphere.

There have been numerous other medical firsts achieved by MonashHeart. - first robotic heart operation in the southern hemisphere - first Arctic Front case in Australia - first WATCHMAN case in Australia - first Australian centre approved for independent percutaneous valve replacement

Monash Medical Centre is designated a national provider of renal and pancreatic transplants. This is a legacy of the endocrinology service provided at the former Prince Henry's Hospital, which transferred its services to Monash Medical Centre, Clayton in 1987. It is currently the second largest renal transplant unit in Melbourne in terms of numbers, after the Royal Melbourne Hospital. In 2011, there were a record number of kidney transplants performed at the Monash Medical Centre, with 92 recorded. The renal ward at Monash Medical Centre has 18 beds and accommodates acutely ill patients with all renal conditions, including pre- and post- kidney and pancreas transplant patients, (including donors), and vascular access surgery.