Maroondah Hospital

Maroondah Hospital established in 1976, is a public hospital located in the Melbourne suburb of Ringwood East, Victoria, Australia.[1] Affiliated with Deakin University the hospital provides clinical rotations for students enrolled in years 3 and 4 of the medical student programs, focusing on children's health.[1][2]

Maroondah Hospital
Eastern Health
Maroondah Hospital from Mount Dandenong Road
Geography
Location1-15 Davey Drive, Ringwood East, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates37°48′24″S 145°15′19″E
Organisation
Care systemMedicare
TypeGeneral, teaching, specialist
Affiliated universityMonash University
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds326
History
Opened3 July 1976 (3 July 1976)
Links
Websitewww.easternhealth.org.au/locations/maroondah-hospital

The hospital provides secondary acute care, and acute adult mental health services along with an emergency department which is open 24 hours, 7 days a week.[3]

Services include emergency medicine, general and specialist medicine, general and specialist surgery, critical care services, ambulatory and allied health services. 

The hospital is a major provider of specialist adult mental health services and provides community adult mental health services throughout Melbourne’s outer-east.[1]

History

Maroondah Hospital has played an integral part in the healthcare of local residents in Melbourne’s east since it was opened by Victorian Governor Sir Henry Winneke on July 3, 1976.

The idea for a public hospital in the region came about at a public meeting at Ringwood Town Hall in April 1964, with building commencing February 1973.

Since then, Maroondah Hospital has continued to grow.

Maroondah hospital celebrated its 40th anniversary on Wednesday 16 November 2016 with a special event.[4]

In 2022, the hospital was in the middle of a Victorian election battle between the Labor and Liberal parties, both parties promising to provide substantial funding for redevelopments and expansion works. As part of the Labor proposal the hospital would be renamed form the Indigenous Australian name Maroondah Hospital to Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, this has been widely criticised by the Victoria’s First Peoples’ Assembly.[5][6][7][8]

Services

Maroondah hospital provides the following services:[9]

  • Aged care assessment
  • Anaesthesiology – pain medicine
  • Community health care
  • Dietetics
  • Drug and/or alcohol information/referral
  • Emergency medical
  • Geriatric medicine
  • Hospital services
  • Library
  • Mental health information/referral
  • Neurology
  • Nursing
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Paediatric medicine
  • Pathology – general
  • Pharmacy
  • Physiotherapy
  • Reproductive endocrinology and infertility
  • Speech pathology/therapy

See also

References
  1. "Maroondah Hospital". www.easternhealth.org.au. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  2. "Student Program Information". Eastern Health Clinical School. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  3. "Emergency Department". www.easternhealth.org.au. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  4. "Maroondah Hospital celebrates 40 years of healthcare". www.easternhealth.org.au. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  5. "Melbourne hospital to be renamed after Queen Elizabeth II in billion-dollar election promise". ABC News. 18 September 2022. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  6. "Backlash grows over decision to scrap Victorian hospital's Indigenous name in favour of Queen Elizabeth II". the Guardian. 19 September 2022. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  7. "A New Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Melbourne's East". Dan Andrews. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  8. "A bigger, better Maroondah Hospital for Melbourne's east". www.matthewguy.com.au. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  9. "Maroondah Hospital". Victorian Agency for Health Information. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
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