News
Monday, July 07, 2008
St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne opened in 1893 – it is part of the Sisters of Charity Health Service, Australia’s largest non-government, not-for-profit health care provider.
St. Vincent’s is a leading teaching,
research and tertiary health service offering a wide range of adult acute
medical and surgical services, sub-acute care, diagnostics, rehabilitation,
allied health, mental health, palliative care, correctional health and
residential and community care. St. Vincent’s is comprised of four main
facilities:
- St Vincent’s Hospital, Fitzroy
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St. George’s Health Service, Kew
- Caritas Christi Hospice, Kew
- Prague House, Kew
In 2006/07 St. Vincent’s provided care for 18,898 Emergency
patients and admitted 26,168 patients.
St. Vincent’s serves a diverse community – 45% of inpatients live
in inner city municipalities, 42% in other parts of Melbourne, 10% are from
regional and rural Victoria and 3% from interstate or overseas. The Health
Service is also Victoria’s largest metropolitan provider of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander health care.
Acute services are provided from the Fitzroy campus – the Intensive
Care Unit (12 beds), Emergency Department (30 Beds) and Cardiac Investigations
Unit (2 Cath Labs) are all participants in the ViTCCU project. The
videoconferencing system, stationed in the ICU, will be able to be relocated to
other areas of the hospital depending on the need for an Intensivist,
Cardiologist or Emergency Medicine Physician.
The key ViTCCU project representatives at St. Vincent’s are Dr.
Barry Dixon and Jenny O’Brien.
