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About Austin Health

Austin Health provides high quality patient care to the community and veterans and has achieved national and international recognition in many fields.

Specialist services include treatment for heart conditions, spinal and head injuries, rehabilitation services, cancer and neurological disorders including epilepsy and stroke, liver and bone marrow transplant, aged care, thoracic disease, stress disorders, vascular and orthopaedic surgery, urology and psychiatry.

Austin Health provides undergraduate and continuing education and training of medical students, nurses and students training for allied health professions as well as post graduate education and research.

The prestigious University of Melbourne Departments of Medicine, Surgery, Psychiatry , Psychology and Physiotherapy  are based at Austin Health. All of Austin Health’s medical and surgical departments are actively involved in research, often working closely with a number of prestigious research bodies also located at Austin Health. All this makes Austin Health one of the strongest medical research precincts in Australia, offering our patients care which is at the very forefront of medical technology. 

The redevelopment of the Austin Hospital has made Austin Health one of the premier health care institutions in Australia.

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