Care system Medicare Website easternhealth.org.au/ Number of beds 621 | Hospital type Teaching, General Phone +61 1300 342 255 Function Teaching hospital | |
Hours Open today · Open 24 hoursFridayOpen 24 hoursSaturdayOpen 24 hoursSundayOpen 24 hoursMondayOpen 24 hoursTuesdayOpen 24 hoursWednesdayOpen 24 hoursThursdayOpen 24 hours Founded 1956, Melbourne, Australia Affiliated universities Monash University, La Trobe University, Deakin University Similar Austin Hospital - Melbourne, Mercy Hospital for Women, St Vincent's Hospital - Melbourne, Frankston Hospital, Werribee Mercy Hospital | ||
Welcome to box hill hospital
Box Hill Hospital is a teaching hospital in Melbourne, Victoria. It is one of the seven hospitals that are governed within the Eastern Health network which provides health care services across the Eastern metropolitan area of Victoria.
Contents
- Welcome to box hill hospital
- Introduction to the box hill hospital virtual tour
- Bunjil the Eagle
- Maternity
- Emergency
- History
- Services
- The Box Hill Hospital Redevelopment Project
- New facilities
- References
Established in 1956, Box Hill Hospital is the a large acute hospital in Box Hill, Victoria which admits more than 48,000 patients each year.
The hospital provides a wide range of healthcare services including: emergency care, general and specialist medicine, intensive care, mental health services for children, adolescents and adults, maternity services, post-acute care programs, surgery, teaching and research.
Box Hill Hospital is a university teaching hospital affiliated with Monash, La Trobe and Deakin Universities.[1]
In 2016 Box Hill Hospital celebrated its 60th anniversary with a staff event.
Introduction to the box hill hospital virtual tour
Bunjil the Eagle
Bunjil the Eagle, which stands 2.8 metres tall, creates a welcoming environment for Aboriginal patients, staff and their families inside Box Hill Hospital’s new main entrance. Bunjil was carved from a sugar gum tree by renowned Aboriginal artist Glenn Romanis.
Maternity
Located on Level 3 of the new 10-storey building, the service includes 10 birthing rooms (five with birthing baths, pictured below), 31 post-natal beds, a special care nursery, foetal monitoring assessment area and outpatient clinics.
Emergency
The new Emergency Department (entrance via Rodgerson Road) is open and the former Emergency Department (Nelson Road) is now closed.
History
The idea of a local hospital to serve the Box Hill area first surfaced around 1937, with a 4.5-acre (1.8 ha) site in Nelson Road being acquired from the Rodgerson estate in 1945. Construction started in early 1949 but because of funding issues the hospital did not open until April 1956. Its original name was the Box Hill and District Hospital.
Services
The Box Hill hospital provides the following services:
The Box Hill Hospital Redevelopment Project
Box Hill Hospital’s new $448 million clinical services building was opened by former Victorian Premier Denis Napthine in August 2014. The project was completed ahead of schedule. Patients were moved to the new building on the 30th of September 2014. The 10-storey Arnold St building houses the hospital’s new emergency department, as well as maternity, cardiac and intensive care units.Box Hill Hospital’s new 10-storey clinical services block (known as Building A) has been designed to accommodate future growth in Melbourne’s east.
On 9 December 2009, the Victorian Labor government approved $407.5 million in funding for the redevelopment of the Box Hill Hospital. Plans for a new building to be constructed over the car park at the rear of the hospital and the Clive Ward building area were completed in 2014. .
New facilities
The previous Box Hill Hospital building (known as Building B) has be refurbished to include: