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Care system
  
Medicare

Emergency department
  
Yes

Founded
  
1941

Hospital type
  
General and speciality

Phone
  
+61 3 9784 7777

Number of beds
  
454

Frankston Hospital

Location
  
2 Hastings Road, Frankston, (Mornington Peninsula), Victoria, Australia

Affiliated university
  
Monash University, Deakin University

Website
  
www.peninsulahealth.org.au

Address
  
2 Hastings Rd, Frankston VIC 3199, Australia

Hours
  
Open today ยท Open 24 hoursThursdayOpen 24 hoursFridayOpen 24 hoursSaturdayOpen 24 hoursSundayOpen 24 hoursMondayOpen 24 hoursTuesdayOpen 24 hoursWednesdayOpen 24 hours

Affiliated universities
  
Monash University, Deakin University

Similar
  
Mercy Hospital for Women, Epworth Freemasons, Box Hill Hospital, St Vincent's Hospital - Melbourne, Austin Hospital - Melbourne

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Frankston Hospital (officially Frankston Public Hospital) is a 454 bed public hospital located in the Melbourne suburb of Frankston in Victoria, Australia. It opened as the Frankston Community Hospital in 1941.

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It is largest provider of general and speciality health care for Melbourne's Mornington Peninsula, and is the region's chief provider of acute secondary and tertiary medical and surgical services.

The hospital has specialisations in mental health, maternity (midwifery) and pediatrics. It also has one of the busiest emergency departments in Victoria with 49 beds and around 63,000 presentations a year. The department was upgraded in 2015 at a cost of A$81 million.

It is one of two hospitals in the Peninsula Health network, the second being Rosebud Hospital, which together support the network's smaller specialist campuses for community health, dentistry, physical and psychiatric rehabilitation, aged (elderly) and palliative care in Frankston, Hastings, Mornington, Mount Eliza and Rosebud.

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Services

Frankston Hospital provides general and speciality health care services in the following areas:

Allied Health
  • Nutrition and Dietetic Services
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physiotherapy
  • Integrating Care
  • Speech Pathology Services
  • Cancer Services
  • Breast Cancer Support Service
  • Oncology Day Unit
  • Radiotherapy Services
  • Cardiac Services
  • Cardiac Angiography
  • Cardiology Department
  • Chronic Heart Failure Program
  • Coronary Care Unit
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Frankston Emergency Department
  • Medical Assessment and Planning Unit (MAPU)
  • Response, Assessment and Discharge (RAD) Unit
  • Home-based Services
  • Hospital in the Home
  • Midwifery Home Care Service
  • Peninsula Post Acute Care (PENPAC)
  • Intensive Care Unit
    Medical Services
  • Dermatology
  • Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Gastroenterology
  • General Medicine
  • Haematology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Medical Wards
  • Neurology
  • Renal Medicine and Haemodialysis
  • Respiratory Services
  • Rheumatology
  • Stroke Unit
  • Neuropsychology and Psychiatric Service
    Outpatient Service
    Palliative Care Services
    Peninsula Amputee Program
    Social Work Services
    Surgical Services
  • Anaesthetics
  • Day Surgery Unit
  • General Surgery
  • Operating Theatres
  • Short Stay Unit
  • Surgical Wards
  • Women's, Children's and Adolescent Health
  • Children's and Adolescent Health
  • Midwifery Inpatient Services
  • Peninsula Health Maternity Services
  • Special Care Nursery
  • Women's Services
  • References

    Frankston Hospital Wikipedia