Monash Health

We provide safe, high-quality care to one-quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire lifespan, from pre-birth to end-of-life.

Our specialties include paediatrics (caring for children), cardiology (caring for the heart), women’s health, kidney and pancreas transplants and intensive care for sick and preterm babies in the first few weeks and months of life.

We improve the health of our community through:

• Prevention and early intervention

• Community-based treatment and rehabilitation

• Highly specialised surgical and medical diagnosis, treatment and monitoring services

• Hospital and community-based mental health services

• Comprehensive sub-acute, aged care and palliative care programs

• Research, education and teaching the next generation of healthcare professionals

• Regional and state-wide specialist services

Our guiding principles

• We consistently provide safe, high quality and timely care

• We provide experiences that exceed expectations

• We work with humility, respect, kindness, and compassion in high performing teams

• We integrate teaching, research and innovation to continuously learn and improve

• We orientate care towards our community to optimise access, independence, and wellbeing

• We manage our resources wisely and sustainably to provide value for our community