The Austin Hospital is located in Heidelberg, 20 minutes north-east of Melbourne's city centre. The hospital was re-opened in 2005 after a major redevelopment (see History). It is housed in one of two new hospital towers, the other tower occupied by Mercy Hospital for Women.
The redeveloped Austin Hospital now features:
400 acute beds
a 30-bed intensive care unit
one of the state's largest adult emergency units and a specialist six-bed unit for children
a purpose-built, 26-bed high-tech spinal unit to serve all of Victoria and Tasmania
infectious diseases isolation rooms in each ward
almost a quarter of rooms as single-bed rooms
en suite facilities in all rooms
additional and refurbished operating theatres
an expanded mental health precinct with 55 mental health beds, including 15 adult acute psychiatry beds, nine beds for the Mood and Eating Disorder Unit and six beds for the Parent Infant Unit
a unique teaching, training and research precinct including a teaching space and laboratory on each level of the Austin Hospital Tower
Austin Hospital is also home to a number of state-wide services, including:
