On Wednesday 7 December, Monash Health Chief Executive Professor Andrew Stripp and Board Chair, Dipak Sanghvi, along with General Manager, Monash Health Women’s and Newborn, Andrea Rindt, Associate Professor Kirsten Palmer, Head of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Head of Obstetrics at Monash Medical Centre, welcomed the Minister for Health, the Hon. Mary-Anne Thomas and her parliamentary colleagues Meng Tak MP, Member for Clarinda, and Minister Steve Dimopoulos MP, Member for Oakleigh, to announce funding for both Monash Medical Centre and Monash Children’s Hospital.
As part of the Victorian Government’s Metropolitan Health Infrastructure Fund (MHIF), an investment of $1.4 million was announced for Monash Medical Centre to upgrade and expand our Maternity Clinic.
To continue providing excellent antenatal care and protect expectant mums from COVID-19 during the pandemic, Monash Health developed and led a world-first integrated care program delivered via telehealth and provided separate facilities for antenatal appointments.
To support this, the Community Rehabilitation Centre at MMC was transformed over a weekend to become an antenatal clinic, offering both in-person and telehealth care.
Today’s announcement of $1.4 million will mean our patients and employees have another fit-for-purpose facility with consulting rooms and telehealth capabilities for antenatal appointments.
The upgrades will allow our Monash Women’s team to welcome mums-to-be in modern and light-filled facilities, reflective of the care we provide.
Monash Health Women’s is the largest provider of maternity care in Victoria, and provides seamless care for women and their newborns, including highly specialised tertiary obstetrics care and a neonatal intensive care unit at the Monash Children’s Hospital.
We have the privilege of caring for over 10,000 women who give birth at Monash Health each year, supporting them and their families.
Pleasingly, Monash Children’s Hospital will also receive MHIF funding to upgrade five inpatient rooms to become HEPA filtered positive pressure rooms. These rooms will better protect children receiving treatment and cancer care and better support their families.
