Emergency
Southern Health has three emergency departments: Monash Medical Centre Clayton, Dandenong Hospital and Casey Hospital. We treat over 150,000 emergency patients per annum.Purpose
Our purpose is to plan and deliver safe, effective emergency health care services that anticipate and respond to our community’s health care needs by:- Working in partnership with other service providers
- Maximising the use of all available resources
- Working together to realise people’s potential
- Fostering knowledge-based practice and continuous improvement
- Promoting and providing quality education and research relevant to emergency health care.
Monash Medical Centre Clayton
Monash Medical Centre Emergency Department sees over 62,000 patients a year. The department has 54 cubicles including seven state-of-the-art resuscitation cubicles, decontamination facilities and three isolation rooms. There are separate paediatric and adult treatment areas and dedicated facilities for patients with mental health needs. There is a ten bed short stay unit.Dandenong Hospital
Dandenong Hospital provides emergency care for approximately 47,000 patients in the Dandenong ranges, Gippsland and the Mornington Peninsula areas.With 30 clinical service areas, we can provide care for a variety of presentations, including adult trauma, obstetric and gynaecologicy, paediatrics, orthopaedics, plastics, psychiatry and acute medical and surgical emergencies.