Palliative care units
- Austin Health Palliative Care Unit
- Northern Health Palliative Care Unit (Unit A at the Northern Hospital in Epping)
- Melbourne Health Palliative Care Unit (Ward 7 West at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Parkville) of the Parkville Integrated Palliative Care Service of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC)*
- Western Health Palliative Care Unit (at Sunshine Hospital)
- Werribee Mercy Hospital Palliative Care Unit (Gabrielle Jennings Centre of Mercy Health)
Palliative care wards of public hospitals tend to be referred to by the term ‘unit’ or ‘inpatient unit’ rather than ‘ward’.
Palliative care units work in close cooperation with community palliative care services, hospital based palliative care consultancy services and other wards and services of their hospital.
Austin Health Palliative Care Unit
145 Studley Rd Heidelberg, Ward 8 South, Level 8, Olivia Newton John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre
Phone: 9496 2542
Fax: 9496 4213
Austin Health Palliative Care Services and Olivia Newton John Centre Palliative Care
Northern Health Palliative Care Unit
185 Cooper St Epping
Intake Phone: 8405 2806 or 8405 2807. Unit A general phone: 8405 8114
Fax: 8405 2805
Royal Melbourne Hospital Palliative Care Unit*
300 Grattan St (Cnr Royal Parade) Parkville, Ward 7 West
Palliative care services of the Royal Melbourne Hospital/Melbourne Health and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac) operate together as a shared service – the Parkville Integrated Palliative Care Service – of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC). The services include inpatient beds, cancer and non-cancer outpatient clinics, and the inpatient palliative care consultation service that covers the Parkville Precinct (Royal Melbourne Hospital, Royal Women’s Hospital and Peter Mac).
Phone: 9342 2580
Fax: 9342 2584
Sunshine Hospital Palliative Care Unit
176 Furlong Rd St Albans
Phone: 8345 1792
Fax: 8345 0695
Werribee Mercy Hospital Palliative Care Unit (Gabrielle Jennings Centre)
300 Princes Hwy Werribee
Phone: 8754 3731
Fax: 9216 8751