MonashHeart

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MonashHeart (formerly known as Cardiology, Monash Medical Centre)
MonashHeart
Geography
Location Melbourne, Clayton, Victoria, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates 37°55′10″S145°07′17″E / 37.9194°S 145.1214°E / -37.9194; 145.1214
Organisation
Care system Medicare, Public, Private
Funding Non-profit hospital
Type Specialist, Teaching, Research
Affiliated university Monash University
Services
Beds83 (across three sites)
History
Opened2007
Links
Website http://monashheart.org.au

MonashHeart is a non-profit cross-site cardiological service operating within the southern region of Victoria's Metropolitan Health Services. [1]

Contents

MonashHeart is co-located with Monash Medical Centre and is part of Monash Health, the largest public health service in Victoria. [2] MonashHeart operates from three sites, all within the Southern Health network of hospitals covering populations located south-east of Melbourne. Clinical services are provided at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Dandenong Hospital and Casey Hospital.

The MonashHeart service will relocate to the new Victorian Heart Hospital, [3] Australia's first standalone cardiac hospital, when it's completed in 2022. [4] [5]

The current director is Professor Stephen Nicholls. [6]

MonashHeart is one of the premier cardiac services the world, ranked 45 in the 2021 World's Best Specialised Hospitals. [7]

History

MonashHeart is an amalgamation of the former Departments of Cardiology of Monash Medical Centre, Clayton and Dandenong Hospital. In 2007, the two departments were merged to create one service across multiple sites (Clayton, Victoria and Dandenong, Victoria), creating MonashHeart.

Ian Meredith was the director from 2005 to 2017. [8] [9]

On 26 May 2009, Victorian Health Minister at the time, Daniel Andrews officially opened the third site for MonashHeart at Casey Hospital in Berwick, Victoria

MonashHeart is named after Sir John Monash (1865-1931), the highly decorated Australian military commander of the First World War.

Services

MonashHeart's services are divided into six clinical service sub-specialities:

Research and education

The Monash Cardiovascular Research Centre (MCRC) [10] is a self-funding, independent research group within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University (through the Southern Clinical School and Departments of Medicine and Surgery, [11] Monash Medical Centre).

Medical firsts

Notable cases

See also

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