MonashHeart is a non-profit cross-site cardiological service operating within the southern region of Victoria's Metropolitan Health Services.

MonashHeart is co-located with Monash Medical Centre

Monash Medical Centre

Monash Medical Centres is a multicampus teaching hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Clayton campus is located in Clayton, whilst the Moorabbin Campus is at Bentleigh East...

 and is part of Southern Health, one of the main public health service providers in Victoria. MonashHeart operates from three sites, all within the Southern Health network of hospitals covering populations located south-east of Melbourne. Clinical services are provided at Monash Medical Centre

Monash Medical Centre

Monash Medical Centres is a multicampus teaching hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Clayton campus is located in Clayton, whilst the Moorabbin Campus is at Bentleigh East...

, Clayton, Dandenong Hospital and Casey Hospital.

History

MonashHeart is an amalgamation of the former Departments of Cardiology of Monash Medical Centre, Clayton and Dandenong Hospital. In 2007, the two departments were merged to create one service across multiple sites (Clayton, Victoria

Clayton, Victoria

Clayton is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 19 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Monash. At the 2006 Census, Clayton had a population of 14,332.-Overview:...

 and Dandenong, Victoria

Dandenong, Victoria

Dandenong is a suburb and major urban centre in metropolitan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 30 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Situated on Dandenong Creek and mostly flat land at the foothills of Mount Dandenong, it is the main administrative centre for the City of...

), creating MonashHeart.

On 26 May 2009, Victorian Health Minister at the time, Daniel Andrews

Daniel Andrews

Daniel Michael Andrews is an Australian politician. He is the current state Australian Labor Party leader and Leader of the Opposition in Victoria...

 officially opened the third site for MonashHeart at Casey Hospital in Berwick, Victoria

Berwick, Victoria

Berwick is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Casey. At the 2006 Census, Berwick had a population of 36,420....

MonashHeart is named after Sir John Monash (1865-1931), the highly decorated Australian military commander of the First World War.

Services

MonashHeart’s services are divided into six clinical service sub-specialities:

• Acute cardiac
• Non-invasive imaging
• Cardiac Computed Tomography
  Computed tomography
  X-ray computed tomography or Computer tomography , is a medical imaging method employing tomography created by computer processing...
  
   (CT)
• Paediatric cardiology and congenital heart disease
• Cardiac rhythm management
• Interventional

Research and Education

The Monash Cardiovascular Research Centre (MCRC) is a self-funding, independent research group within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University

Monash University

Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....

(through the Southern Clinical School and Departments of Medicine and Surgery, Monash Medical Centre).

Medical firsts

• first robotic heart operation in the southern hemisphere
• first Artic Front case in Australia
• first WATCHMAN case in Australia
• first Australian centre approved for independent percutaneous valve replacement

External links

• MonashHeart official website