Southern Health is Victoria's largest
metropolitan health service located across south eastern Melbourne, uniquely
integrating in one organisation all primary, secondary and tertiary health
services, as well as world-renowned research and teaching facilities.
We serve a core population of over 866 000
people or 21 per cent of the city's population, who depend on us for all
aspects of their public health care needs, with our services drawn upon
by a greater population
of 1.235 million or 32 per cent of Melbourne. Southern Health also has
a wider official specialist role for greater Melbourne, regional
Victoria and interstate in such specialities as paediatrics, cardiology,
transplants and neonatal intensive care with extensive university
affiliations.
Over 12 000 staff work at 46 sites across south eastern metropolitan
Melbourne, including the major hospital facilities of Monash Medical
Centre Clayton and Moorabbin, Dandenong Hospital, Casey Hospital, the
Kingston Centre and Cranbourne Integrated Community Care Centre, and
extensive community health facilities throughout the region.
In the last financial year our hospitals treated more than 178,000 inpatients, triaged more than 150 000 emergency presentations, performed nearly 40,000 operations, and delivered over 8200 new Victorians.
Our Strategic Vision
Our vision is to provide “Better Health for Our
Community”.
We are an Australian leader in improving the health and wellbeing of our
community.
Our purpose is to plan and deliver safe, effective and people-focused
health care and services that anticipate and responds
to our community’s health
needs by:
Our values say “ICARE” because caring is the foundation of our service. At Southern Health, we work together with:
Southern Health Sites
Southern Health serves the community of South East Melbourne at 46 sites including:
Southern Health delivers more than 200 programs and services to our community including:
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Page last updated: 03/07/2009
