Austin Hospital provides specialised services and care for Victorians. It is recognised for our high-quality, safe, person-centred care, our leading teaching and research and as a place where staff and volunteers are proud to work.

We're renowned for our specialist work in cancer, infectious diseases, obesity, sleep medicine, intensive care medicine, neurology, endocrinology, mental health and rehabilitation. We're also the largest Victorian provider of training for specialist physicians and surgeons.

We deliver services for patients across four main sites in Melbourne, in locations across our community, in people's homes, and within regional hospitals across Victoria. We're an internationally recognised centre of excellence in hospital-based research. 

Across our sites, almost 1,000 researchers and a number of research institutes, universities and the Mercy Hospital for Women work together in an alliance called Austin LifeSciences.

Austin Hospital features:

• an expansive Emergency Department that treats nearly 90,000 patients each year and houses a 6-bed children's unit and state-of-the-art 24-bed Short Stay Unit for adults, children and mental health clients
• a 22-bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) that is recognised as one of the world's leading research ICUs
• our Surgery and Endoscopy Centre, where we perform all emergency surgery as well as a large number of elective surgery and endoscopy procedures
• a Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory that performs over 2000 catheterisations and 600 other emergency cardiology procedures each year
• a specialised 26-bed Spinal Unit servicing Victoria and Tasmania
• the leading epilepsy centre in Australia, which treats patients from all around the country, New Zealand and South East Asia
• an 82-bed mental health precinct
• the home of Austin LifeSciences and a number of state-of-the-art teaching, training and research facilities

We are home to a number of statewide services:

• Ventilation Weaning Unit
• Victorian Liver Transplant Unit 
• Victorian Respiratory Support Service
• Victorian Spinal Cord Service
• Victorian Toxicology Service
• Victorian Poisons Information Centre

We deliver services for patients across four main sites in Melbourne, in locations across our community, in people's homes, and within regional hospitals across Victoria.

Austin Hospital

Phone: 03 9496 5000

Fax: 03 9458 4779

Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital

Phone: 03 9496 5000

Fax: 03 9496 2541

Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre

Phone: 03 9490 7500

Fax: 03 9490 7501

Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute.

Phone: 03 9496 5000

Fax: +613 9496 5000

Clinics
We run a wide range of clinics at each of our sites as well as in the community.

• Blood Pressure Disorders Clinic
• COVID-19 Screening Clinic
• Gender Clinic
• High Risk Foot Clinic
• Neurobehaviour Clinic
• Oculoplastics Clinic
• Oxygen Clinic
• Specialist Clinics
• Virtual Fracture Clinic
• Weight Control Clinic

Care & support
We provide care and support for our patients, from diagnosis to treatment and rehabilitation.

• Aboriginal health
• Advance care planning
• Aged care
• Art therapy
• Disability liaison
• Genetic counselling
• Helping you stay active & well at home
• Horticultural therapy
• Interpreters
• Leisure therapy
• Music therapy
• Nutrition & diet
• Occupational therapy
• Orthotics & prosthetics
• Palliative care
• Physiotherapy
• Podiatry
• Psychology
• Rehabilitation
• Social work
• Speech pathology
• Spiritual care
• Support after sexual assault
• Tracheostomy care
• Veteran liaison

Medical problems
Our doctors, nurses and allied health professionals manage patients with a wide range of medical problems.

• Adolescent & child eating disorders
• Blood pressure, fainting & medication problems
• Breathing & sleep disorders
• Children's epilepsy
• Diabetes education
• Diabetes, gland & hormone problems
• Drug & antibiotic allergies
• Emergency
• Epilepsy
• Eye problems
• General medical problems
• Genetic kidney diseases
• Heart disease
• Hepatitis C treatment
• Infectious diseases
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Intensive care
• Joint, muscle & soft tissue disorders
• Kidney care & dialysis
• Kidney transplant
• Liver & digestive diseases
• Medications
• Multiple sclerosis & related disorders
• Nerve & brain conditions
• Paediatrics
• Poisoning
• Skin diseases
• Stroke
• Victorian Poisons Information Centre
• Victorian Respiratory Support Service
• Victorian Spinal Cord Service

Mental health
We provide comprehensive hospital-based, community and specialist services to youth, adults, older people and veterans in northern Melbourne.

• Adult mental health
• Brain disorders
• Child & youth mental health
• Parent infant mental health
• Referrals to mental health services
• Support for carers
• Trauma recovery

Scans & tests
We conduct scans, tests and imaging to help us determine the right treatment for you.

• Artery & vein tests
• Blood & tissue tests
• Bone mineral density scans
• Diagnosing brain, nerve & muscle disorders
• Eye tests
• Heart tests
• Molecular imaging & therapy
• Nuclear medicine
• PET scans
• X-ray, MRI & ultrasound scans

Surgical procedures
We provide a broad range of elective and emergency surgery at the Austin and Heidelberg Repatriation Hospitals.

• Anaesthesia
• Blood vessel surgery
• Bone, joint & soft tissue surgery
• Bowel surgery
• Brain surgery
• Ear, nose, throat, head & neck surgery
• Endocrine (thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal & pancreas) surgery
• Endoscopy
• Eye surgery
• Gynaecology & family planning
• Heart surgery
• Heart treatments
• Liver & intestinal transplants
• Liver, pancreas & gall bladder surgery
• Managing pain
• Mouth, face & jaw surgery
• Nerve & tendon transfer surgery
• Plastic & reconstructive surgery
• Spinal surgery
• Upper gastrointestinal surgery
• Urology surgery
• Weight loss surgery