Austin Health Austin Health

Australia > VIC > Metro and Regional

Field of Interest

  • Health/wellbeing and medical research
  • Individual/family services and support

Target Population

  • People with a disability, illness or disease
  • General population

Organisation Summary

Austin Health is a major public healthcare provider in north-eastern Melbourne.
Since our opening in 1882, we have built and maintained our reputation on the provision of quality and compassionate healthcare to the community.
We provide care across four centres: Austin Hospital, Olivia Newton-John Cancer Centre, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital and the Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre.


Our purpose: Helping people live healthy, productive and fulfilled lives.


Our vision: Shaping the future through exceptional care, discovery and learning.


Austin Health provides a full complement of services including emergency medicine and intensive care, inpatient and outpatient care, home-based and community care. Additionally, our specialist services include cancer care, abdominal organ transplantation, mental health, spinal care and rehabilitation.
We provide statewide services to residents across Victoria, including:

  • Acquired Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit.
  • Austin Toxicology Service.
  • Victorian Liver Transplant Unit.
  • Victorian Poisons Information Centre.
  • Victorian Respiratory Support Service.
  • Victorian Spinal Cord Service.


Austin Health is globally recognised for our high standards of teaching, professional education and training. Our centre of excellence for hospital-based research brings together more than 1,000 world-leading researchers and leading research institutes.


Our priorities:

  • Our patients receive the right care in the most appropriate place.
  • We are national leaders in specialist care.
  • Our people are well supported and encouraged to reach their full potential.
  • Our partnerships enable a comprehensive system of care.
  • We are leaders in environmentally sustainable healthcare.


Austin Health invites philanthropic support towards our services, centres of care and priority areas, to enhance our renowned high quality care.

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Level 6, 126 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne VIC 3002

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, learn and work. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.

Australian Communities Foundation is a proudly inclusive organisation and an ally of LGBTQIA+ communities and the movement toward equality.