The organisation provides services in emergency, maternity, women’s health, medical imaging, pathology, rehabilitation, community services, residential aged care, psychiatric care, community dental, hospice, palliative care, cardiology, cancer services and renal dialysis to the people of the Loddon Mallee region.
In addition to operating a large acute hospital we offer subacute services including inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, a regional psychiatric service, residential care, specialist clinics, dialysis and a range of ongoing care services to support you at home or in an alternative facility to ensure your safe transition to home.
A 778-bed service, Bendigo Health treats more than 57,000 inpatients, deals with more than 60,000 emergency attendances, delivers around 1,600 babies and takes more than 110,000 medical images each year.
These services are complemented by an integrated Cancer Centre, which administers around 9000 chemotherapy treatments each year, an 80-bed Psychiatry Unit and 11 operating theatres where more than 17,000 surgical procedures are performed annually.
In the Loddon Mallee region, melanoma is the sixth most common cancer with approximately 225 diagnoses a year.
Tom has made the journey from porter and food assistant to enrolled nurse and now into mental health as a registered nurse.
Jess thought she could take some of that anxiety away by creating the Little Radiology children’s book series.