Locations
Austin Hospital
Austin Hospital
Austin Hospital provides specialised services and care for Victorians.
Austin Hospital
Phone: 03 9496 5000
Fax: 03 9496 3386
About Austin Hospital
Austin Hospital features:
- an expansive Emergency Department that treats nearly 90,000 patients each year and houses a 6-bed children's unit and state-of-the-art 24-bed Short Stay Unit for adults, children and mental health clients
- a 22-bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) that is recognised as one of the world's leading research ICUs
- our Surgery and Endoscopy Centre, where we perform all emergency surgery as well as a large number of elective surgery and endoscopy procedures
- a Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory that performs over 2000 catheterisations and 600 other emergency cardiology procedures each year
- a specialised 26-bed Spinal Unit servicing Victoria and Tasmania
- the leading epilepsy centre in Australia, which treats patients from all around the country, New Zealand and South East Asia
- an 82-bed mental health precinct
- the home of Austin LifeSciences and a number of state-of-the-art teaching, training and research facilities
We are home to a number of statewide services:
- Ventilation Weaning Unit
- Victorian Liver Transplant Unit
- Victorian Respiratory Support Service
- Victorian Spinal Cord Service
- Victorian Toxicology Service
- Victorian Poisons Information Centre