CASEY Hospital has received funding for 10 extra acute care beds as part of a State Government announcement of 51 additional beds for Southern Health.
Health Minister Daniel Andrews visited Monash Medical Centre in Clayton last week to deliver the news.
Mr Andrews said Southern Health would receive $12.7million for
the beds, which includes one neonatal intensive care unit at Clayton.
Southern Health chief executive Shelly Park welcomed the announce- ment.
She said the boost also included funding to "increase capacity to treat more highly dependent patients outside of ICU and to enable emergency departments to see and treat patients quicker".
Director of Southern Health's acute services,
Siva Sivarajah, said the beds would be commissioned by June of this year, if not sooner.
"We first need to employ extra staff before we can commission the extra beds," Mr Sivarajah said.
Dandenong Hospital will also receive eight extra acute-care beds and one new intensive-care unit bed.
Monash Medical Centre in Clayton will receive five extra acute-care beds and its Kingston centre in Moorabin an extra 28 ward beds.
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