Monash Health Annual Report

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Monash Children’s Hospital patient Alexis and mother Stacey.
Pakenham Health
Centre opens
Monash Health’s community-based
services in the rapidly developing
south-east growth corridor have
been strengthened with the opening
of the new $6.2 million Pakenham
Health Centre.
Community-based services including
child, family and maternal health,
pregnancy care, counselling,
rehabilitation, pathology, mental
health and outpatient specialist clinics
have been co-located to improve
accessibility and health outcomes
for the local community.
The Pakenham Health Centre is managed
by Monash Health in partnership with
Cardinia Shire Council and was jointly
funded by the Department of Health
and Human Services (DHHS) and the
Department of Environment, Land,
Water and Planning (DELWP).
A bigger Casey Hospital
to meet soaring demand
Casey Hospital is expanding to meet
soaring growth in demand for acute
healthcare in Melbourne’s rapidly
growing south-east region.
In October 2016, the Victorian Premier,
The Hon Daniel Andrews MP, and
the Victorian Minister for Health and
Ambulance Services, The Hon Jill
Hennessy MP announced an additional
$28.6 million to the Casey Hospital
expansion project, bringing the Victorian
Government’s total investment to nearly
$135 million. Planning has continued
throughout 2016-17 in partnership with
the community. Construction is expected
to start in 2017 and be completed in
late 2019.
Monash Health dedicated its 2016 Open
Board Meeting to the expansion project,
welcoming a wide range of community,
staff and health sector representatives,
to share their thoughts and aspirations
for the project.
The project will increase the size
of Casey Hospital and include four
additional operating theatres, a new
12-bed intensive care unit, a new 12-bed
day surgical unit, and an additional
136 multi-day beds, which collectively
will allow Casey Hospital to treat an
additional 25,800 patients, perform an
extra 8,000 procedures and support
1,300 more births each year.
The project is also working with Monash
University to plan for additional education
and training spaces for medical, nursing
and allied health students.
Moorabbin Hospital
expands imaging and
outpatients
Construction has continued on the $16.2
million expansion of Moorabbin Hospital,
due for completion in November 2017.
The development will increase the
number of specialist consulting
suites from 11 to 21, and include a
Magnetic Resonance Imager (MRI)
and a Computerised Tomography
(CT) machine.
In February 2017, a $934,000 extension
of the Simulation Centre at Moorabbin
Hospital commenced to provide a
refurbishment and three additional
simulation rooms for nursing, allied
health and medical education.