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The Eastern Metropolitan region extends from Melbourne's inner eastern suburbs of Bulleen and Doncaster, north across the Yarra River to Lower Plenty and Eltham, and across to Bayswater, Croydon and Ferntree Gully in the east below the Dandenong Ranges. The most southerly suburb is Rowville.
Some of the projects that the Brumby Government is taking action on to ensure local families have the best health system include:
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1.A recent $711,000 Brumby Government funding boost for the Angliss Hospital to provide an update of anaesthetic, X-ray and ultrasound equipment and a new diathermy unit (equipment that uses high frequency electrical current either to cut or to cauterize small blood vessels to stop bleeding).
2.$30 million Wantirna Health facility. The new 60-bed sub facility is a boon to community health services in the region and includes 30 palliative care beds, 30 geriatric rehabilitation (GEM) beds and a community rehabilitation centre.
3.New Nurse-On-Call service with more than 380,000 calls across Victoria made in a year. Local families regularly use the triage service seeking medical advice about symptoms such as vomiting and fever, abdominal pain and discomfort, diarrhoea, nausea and chest pain.
4.Redevelopment of Box Hill Hospital, the $38.2 million redevelopment will mean expanded medical services for one of Melbourne’s fastest growing areas.
The new building on Spring Street will include a 16-chair renal dialysis service.
5.12-chair haemodialysis centre at the Maroondah Hospital in Ringwood East. The centre caters for people needing kidney dialysis in the outer eastern suburbs.
6.The new $18.5 million Emergency Department at the Angliss Hospital will enable it to treat an extra 5000 patients every year. The redevelopment includes an eight-bed short-stay unit, four coronary care beds, four high-dependency beds and a new general x-ray facility.
Health:
North and West | Eastern | Southern
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