HOSPITAL SERVICES REPORT : METROPOLITAN HEALTH CARE SERVICES- NOV 96
Improving Access to Metropolitan Health Care Services
The implementation of the Metropolitan Heath Care Services Plan means than new hospitals and services will be developed, and services provided by some hospitals will change.
Metropolitan Health Care Services
Women's and Children's Health Care Network
North Eastern Health Care Network
Inner and Eastern Health Care Network
WESTERN HEALTH CARE NETWORK
| HEALTH CARE SERVICE SITE | PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT |
| Altona Hospital | Relocate all services to Williamstown and Werribee Mercy Hospitals |
| Broadmeadows Health Service | New health service, incorporating an integrated care centre, and also providing inpatient aged and extended care and mental health services |
| North West Hospital - Greenvale | Relocate all services to new Broadmeadows Health Service |
| North West Hospital - Parkville | Maintain current role. Relocate nursing home beds to private sector. Relocate some services to Western Hospital - Footscray |
| Royal Melbourne Hospital - Essendon | Relocate all services to Western Hospital - Sunshine, Broadmeadows Health Service and Werribee Mercy Hospital |
| Royal Melbourne Hospital - Parkville | Maintain current teaching role. Upgrade clinical services, including relocation of acute psychiatric service from Royal Park Hospital. Relocate some services to the outer west |
| Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital | Relocate all inpatient services to purpose-built facilities at Western Hospital - Sunshine, Broadmeadows Health Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Werribee Mercy Hospital |
| Sunbury Integrated Care Centre | New service providing ambulatory care and other health care services |
| Werribee Mercy Hospital | Maintain current role. Expand obstetric, general medicine, general surgery, palliative care and mental health services |
| Western Hospital - Footscray | Maintain current role. Expand general services, cardiology and thoracic surgery services |
| Western Hospital - Sunshine | Enhance current role. Expand general services, including paediatric, obstetric, gynaecology, general surgery, general medicine and mental health services |
| Williamstown Hospital | Maintain current role. Expand obstetric, gynaecological and day surgery services |
WOMEN'S and CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE NETWORK
| HEALTH CARE SERVICE SITE | PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT |
| Royal Children's Hospital | Expand paediatric service activity across metropolitan area via 'hub and spoke' model |
| Royal Women's Hospital | Expand obstetric, gynaecological and neonatal service activity via a 'hub and spoke' model. Upgrade facilities at the Royal Women's Hospital, including development of an integrated care centre |
NORTH EASTERN HEALTH CARE NETWORK
| HEALTH CARE SERVICE SITE | PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT |
| Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre (A&RMC) | Redevelop as a major teaching hospital on the Repatriation site |
| Bundoora Extended Care Centre | Maintain current role. Develop aged and mental health services |
| Mercy Hospital for Women | Relocate from current East Melbourne site to be collocated with the new Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre on the Repatriation site |
| North Eastern Metropolitan Psychiatric Service | Continue the relocation of all services across Network |
| Northern Hospital | New community hospital |
| Preston and Northcote Community Hospital | Relocate inpatient services on current site to the new Northern Hospital and develop a new integrated care centre |
| Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre | Maintain current role |
INNER and EASTERN HEALTH CARE NETWORK
| HEALTH CARE SERVICE SITE | PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT |
| Alfred Hospital | Maintain current teaching role. Upgrade facilities and develop new acute psychiatric unit. Some resources will be shifted over time to build up services in the outer east |
| Angliss Health Service | Focus on community services, including aged and extended care and ambulatory services |
| Bethlehem Hospital | Maintain current role |
| Box Hill Hospital | Increase level of services during the development of Knox Hospital. Service stabilisation following development of Knox Hospital |
| Burwood and District Community Hospital | Relocate all services to Box Hill Hospital and Peter James Centre |
| Caritas Christi Hospice | Maintain current role |
| Caulfield General Medical Centre | Focus on aged and extended care, and psychogeriatric services. Relocate most acute services to Alfred Hospital |
| Knox Hospital | Staged development of new high technology tertiary hospital |
| Maroondah Hospital | Expand services during the development of the new Knox Hospital. In the long term, focus on community services including mental health, ambulatory care and other health care services |
| Peter James Centre | Maintain current role in aged and extended care and psychogeriatric services. Develop satellite renal dialysis service |
| Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute | Maintain current role as statewide cancer services provider in conjunction with the William Buckland Centre at the Alfred Hospital |
| Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital | Plan for the development of 'hub and spoke' arrangements for service delivery and work towards consolidation of a centre of excellence, including research and teaching, in the vicinity of the inner city |
| St George's and Inner Eastern Geriatric Service (IEGS) | Redevelop Kew site as an aged and extended care facility. Relocate acute services to Box Hill Hospital and the Mercy Hospital for Women. Relocate services provided at Victoria Parade and Henry Pride Centres to Kew site |
| St Vincent's Hospital | Retain teaching hospital role. Some resources will be shifted over time to build up services in the outer east |
| Yarra Ranges Health Service | Maintain current role |
SOUTHERN HEALTH CARE NETWORK
| HEALTH CARE SERVICE SITE | PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT |
| Berwick Hospital | New community hospital |
| Cranbourne Integrated Care Centre | New service providing ambulatory care and other health care services |
| Dandenong Hospital | Maintain current role. Enhance aged and extended care, rehabilitation and mental health services |
| Hampton Rehabilitation Hospital | Establish a Network-wide rehabilitation program. Relocate all specialist services to Dandenong Hospital and Monash Medical Centre - Clayton |
| Heatherton Psychiatric Hospital | Relocate all services to mainstream facilities and community-based services throughout Southern Health Care Network |
| Kingston Centre | Develop Network-wide aged and extended care, and psychogeriatric services |
| Monash Medical Centre - Clayton/Moorabbin | Maintain current services and teaching role on both sites. Expand some specialist services |
| Mordialloc/Cheltenham Community Hospital | Relocate services to Sandringham Hospital and Monash Medical Centre - Moorabbin |
| Sandringham Hospital | Expand specialist services, including obstetric services, elective surgery and general medical care |
PENINSULA HEALTH CARE NETWORK
| HEALTH CARE SERVICE SITE | PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT |
| Peninsula Health Care Network | Focus on inpatient rehabilitation services for young people with disabilities, inpatient palliative care services and aged care services |
| Frankston Aged and Extended Care | Establish a new integrated care centre providing ambulatory care and other health care services (collocated with Mornington Peninsula Hospital - Frankston) |
| Mornington Peninsula Hospital-Frankston | Maintain current role. Expand investigative cardiology services |
| Mornington Peninsula Hospital-Rosebud | Maintain current role. Ensure provision of emergency services |
| Mt Eliza Rehabilitation and Aged Care Services | Maintain current role. Redevelop services at more accessible sites on the Peninsula |
