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

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