Emergency services information

Monash Health’s emergency services treat over 150,000 patients per annum, learn more about the services provided across our main sites.

As our sites provide different services it’s recommended that GPs consider the likelihood of admission and send the patient to the hospital with the required inpatient service to prevent secondary transfers.

Learn more about Monash Health emergency departments and their locations.

To contact any of Monash Health’s emergency departments, please direct your calls to the main switchboard on (03) 9594 6666.

Monash Medical Centre

Adult psychiatry
Adolescent psychiatry
Cardiology
24 hr catheter laboratory
Endocrinology
ENT
General medicine
General surgery
Gynaecology
Gastroenterology
Geriatrics
ICU/HDU
Neonatal services
Neurosurgery
Obstetrics
Oncology
Orthopaedics (paeds only)
Opthalmology
Paediatric medicine
Paediatric surgery
Plastic surgery (paeds only)
Specialty medicine*
Stroke unit
Urology (limited)
Vascular surgery

* (Specialty Medicine includes Infectious diseases, Nephrology, Neurology, and Rheumatology)

Dandenong Hospital

Adult psychiatry
Cardiology
Endocrinology
ENT
General medicine
General surgery
Gynaecology
Gastroenterology
Geriatrics
ICU/HDU
Neonatal services (level 2 SNC)
Neurosurgery (limited)
Obstetrics
Orthopaedics
Paediatric medicine
Plastic surgery
Stroke unit (no thrombolysis)
Vascular surgery
Vascular medicine

Moorabbin Hospital

ENT
General surgery
Gynaecology
HDU
Oncology
Orthopaedics
Plastic surgery
Urology
Vascular surgery

Casey Hospital

Adult psychiatry
Adolescent psychiatry (limited)
ENT
General medicine
General surgery (elective only)
Gynaecology (limited)
Gastroenterology
Geriatrics
Neonatal services (limited)
Neurosurgery (limited)
Obstetrics
Paediatric medicine
Paediatric surgery (limited)
Urology

Important notes for GPs

There is no Emergency Department at Moorabbin. These patients can be seen at any of the three EDs and transferred if requiring admission.
Patients with conditions requiring urgent intervention, such as PCI for Acute Myocardial Infarction, or Thrombolysis for acute stroke, should be sent immediately to MMC, Clayton
Orthopaedic patients who can be managed in the Emergency department without inpatient admission; eg Colles’ fracture, simple limb fractures, dislocated shoulders; can be managed at all three EDs, but will be followed up in Outpatients at Dandenong Hospital
Orthopaedic patients will not be admitted to Casey Hospital. Those Orthopaedic patients who obviously need inpatient admission should be referred to MMC, Clayton or Dandenong Hospital.