St Vincent's Private Hospital Melbourne (formerly known as St Vincent's & Mercy Private Hospital) is a private hospital group in
Victoria of
Australia
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that is located across four campuses in the
Melbourne
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suburbs of
Fitzroy Fitzroy or FitzRoy may refer to:
People As a given name
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**FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855)
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,
East Melbourne , Kew and
Werribee, Victoria. Each campus is denominated St Vincent's Private Hospital, with the associated suburb included as an addendum to the designation.
The (
Catholic
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Sisters of Charity and
Sisters of Mercy had run the St Vincent's Private and Mercy Private hospitals independently for more than 70 years before their merger, the first of its kind. T
St Vincent's Private Hospital purchased Vimy House Private Hospital in 2008, creating the third campus. Werribee was purpose built and opened in January 2018 with 112 beds and 4 operating theatres. Currently across the four sites, St Vincent's Private Melbourne has a capacity of over 600 beds.
Major specialities include interventional cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, obstetrics, neurosurgery and orthopaedics, paediatrics, ENT, hand surgery, oncology and general surgery.
See also
* Teaching staff of
University of Melbourne
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, Department of Surgery
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List of hospitals in Australia
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Healthcare in Australia
References
External links
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Hospital buildings completed in 1998
Hospitals in Melbourne
Hospitals established in 1998
1998 establishments in Australia
Fitzroy, Victoria