Emergency - Southern Health

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.

Casey Hospital

The Casey Hospital Emergency Department (ED) opened in March 2005. It currently sees over 43,000 presentations per year. The department consists of 20 general cubicles, including a dedicated psychiatric room and isolation room, 2 resuscitation bays (adult and paediatric) and 6 procedure rooms, including a plaster, procedure and an ENT specialty room.

Published Date: July 28, 2009
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