Grace Private Competitors

Alfred Health is a leading metropolitan health service in Melbourne, Australia. We pride ourselves on giving our patients and our community the best possible health outcomes by integrating clinical practice with research and education. Alfred Health provides a comprehensive range of specialist medical and surgical services including Australia’s busiest trauma centre. We also operate one of the largest and most advanced intensive care units (ICU) in the southern hemisphere. Alfred Health offers almost every form of medical treatment across our three locations at The Alfred, Caulfield Hospital and Sandringham Hospital. Recognised as a national leader in health care, Alfred Health has a commitment to biomedical research. We are also known for excellence in training for medical, nursing, allied health and other support staff. This is further enhanced through partnerships with Monash University, La Trobe University, and several internationally recognised medical research organisations such as the Burnet Institute.

The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years. We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas. With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people. We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation. When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future. In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.

As Victoria's largest not-for-profit private hospital group, Epworth HealthCare offers leading solutions in diagnosis, clinical treatment, and rehabilitation. From maternity services to cancer treatment programs, our team offers exceptional patient care 24 hours a day, seven days week. Our highly trained and dedicated staff deliver specialist services at convenient locations across Melbourne and Geelong.