Monash Children's Hospital

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Monash Medical Centre is a teaching hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It provides specialist tertiary-level healthcare to the Melbourne's south-east.Monash Medical Centre is part of Monash Health, the largest public health service in Victoria.HistoryMonash Medical Centre was formed in 1987 with the amalgamation of the "Queen Victoria Medical Centre", "Prince Henry's Hospital" and "Moorabbin Hospital".ServicesMonash Children's HospitalCardiologyMonashHeart provides cardiology related services and cardiac care at the Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, and at Dandenong Hospital. MonashHeart is the busiest interventional cardiology service in the state, providing coronary angiography and coronary angioplasty services to the entire south eastern area of the state. MonashHeart is the largest non-invasive imaging service in Victoria, performing nearly 14,000 echocardiograms each year for newborns through to adults.Acute cardiac inpatient services are provided across the network. There is a 21 bed cardiac care unit at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, which manages a high case load of ST-elevation acute myocardial infarctions, with a daily case load of 3-4 cases not being unusual; A 12 bed cardiac care unit at Dandenong Hospital, which shares the coronary angiography and angioplasty services with Monash Medical Centre, Clayton; A 24 bed combined cardiology and cardiothoracic unit, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton which manages all the post op cardiothoracic cases, as well as other general cardiology cases.MonashHeart became a luminary site for the 320-slice Toshiba Aquilion One CT scanner in September 2008, the first health service to do so in the southern hemisphere.