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Frankston Hospital
Hospital in Victoria, Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Frankston Hospital (officially Frankston Public Hospital) is a 454-bed public hospital located in the Melbourne suburb of Frankston in Victoria, Australia.[1] It opened as the Frankston Community Hospital on 30 November 1941.[2]
It is the largest provider of general and speciality health care for Melbourne's Mornington Peninsula, and is the region's chief provider of acute secondary and tertiary medical and surgical services.[1][2]
The hospital has specialisations in mental health, maternity (midwifery) and pediatrics.[1][2] It also has one of the busiest emergency departments in Victoria with 49 beds and around 63,000 presentations a year.[2][3] The department was upgraded in 2015 at a cost of A$81 million.[2][3]
It is one of two hospitals in the Peninsula Health network, the second being Rosebud Hospital, which together support the network's smaller specialist campuses for community health, dentistry, physical and psychiatric rehabilitation, aged (elderly) and palliative care in Frankston, Hastings, Mornington, Mount Eliza and Rosebud.[2]
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Frankston Hospital provides general and speciality health care services in the following areas:
- Allied Health
- Nutrition and Dietetic Services
- Occupational Therapy
- Physiotherapy
- Integrating Care
- Speech Pathology Services
- Cancer Services
- Breast Cancer Support Service
- Oncology Day Unit
- Radiotherapy Services
- Cardiac Services
- Cardiac Angiography
- Cardiology Department
- Chronic Heart Failure Program
- Coronary Care Unit
- Emergency Medicine
- Frankston Emergency Department
- Medical Assessment and Planning Unit (MAPU)
- Response, Assessment and Discharge (RAD) Unit
- Home-based Services
- Hospital in the Home
- Midwifery Home Care Service
- Peninsula Post Acute Care (PENPAC)
- Intensive Care Unit
- Medical Services
- Dermatology
- Diabetes & Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- General Medicine
- Haematology
- Infectious Diseases
- Medical Wards
- Neurology
- Renal Medicine and Haemodialysis
- Respiratory Services
- Rheumatology
- Stroke Unit
- Neuropsychology and Psychiatric Service
- Outpatient Service
- Palliative Care Services
- Peninsula Amputee Program
- Social Work Services
- Surgical Services
- Anaesthetics
- Day Surgery Unit
- General Surgery
- Operating Theatres
- Short Stay Unit
- Surgical Wards
- Women's, Children's and Adolescent Health
- Children's and Adolescent Health
- Midwifery Inpatient Services
- Peninsula Health Maternity Services
- Special Care Nursery
- Women's Services
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