2012 Media Releases

Eleven patients at Epworth HealthCare became the first people in Australia to receive a new device that has successfully treated diabetes 2 in Europe and South America – helping patients there lower blood sugar levels and achieve a weight loss of more than 20 per cent.

Epworth Gynaecologist Dr Catarina Ang made history last month when she became the first female surgeon in Australia to perform surgery using the da Vinci robot.... Read more

This week Epworth HealthCare recognises Private Hospitals Week, an initiative of the Australian Private Hospital Association.... Read more

Inspector Gerry Rudkins is the first Victorian to receive the National Police Service Medal - honouring more than 30 years of ethical and diligent service as a sworn Police Officer.
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Leading players from Melbourne Victory Football Club will meet patients from the Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) unit at Epworth HealthCare tomorrow, in the week’s lead-up to the Epworth ABI Cup at AAMI Park this Friday night.... Read more

Victorian Minister for Planning the Hon. Matthew Guy has today formally approved the planning application to establish a joint Teaching Hospital at Waurn Ponds — developed by Epworth HealthCare in partnership with Deakin University.... Read more

Epworth HealthCare has appointed its first female president of the Board since the hospital was established in 1920.... Read more

Epworth HealthCare has launched its strategic eHealth initiative at a Symposium at RMIT University’s Emily McPherson College.... Read more

More than half a million dollars was raised for the Epworth Research Institute on Saturday night thanks to sponsors, staff and friends who attended Epworth HealthCare’s gala ball.... Read more

The Australian Private Health Association (APHA) Congress in Sydney last night announced Epworth Rehabilitation Brighton as winner of the the prestigious 2011 APHA/Baxter Ambulatory Care Award for their innovative Multidisciplinary Falls Prevention Intervention Program.... Read more

Epworth Freemasons today celebrates 20 years of providing Victorian mothers with excellent private maternity services.  Having welcomed more than 57,000 babies into the world during that time, it is Melbourne’s largest private maternity hospital.... Read more

A $40 million redevelopment of Epworth Rehabilitation Camberwell will begin in coming weeks, now that Construction Engineering has been selected for the building works.... Read more

Epworth HealthCare urologist Professor Tony Costello has developed a novel use of Epworth’s da Vinci robot to raise awareness of men’s cancers for Blue September.... Read more

RMIT Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe has been appointed to the new position of Chair, Health Information Management at Epworth HealthCare.... Read more

Thanks to Epworth’s participation in a global trial being co-ordinated by the Florey Neuroscience Institutes, 96 year-old Ron Wilson was walking and driving less than six weeks after presenting with stroke symptoms at Epworth’s Emergency Department in May.... Read more

Epworth Freemasons today celebrated the commissioning of its sixth operating theatre, with the latest da Vinci Si dual console surgical robot installed in the new theatre.... Read more

A safety initiative introduced by Epworth HealthCare nurse unit manager Meredith Elliott has prompted colleague Carmen Wong to enter the project in the 2011 WorkSafe Awards.... Read more

A new support group for women with endometriosis has commenced at Epworth Freemasons in East Melbourne.... Read more

Epworth HealthCare has formally acquired 8.8 hectares of land on the Marcus Oldham College site in Waurn Ponds, next to Deakin University, to build their new private hospital.... Read more

A generous team effort from Epworth, Adult and Congenital Cardiac Surgeon Andrew Cochrane and Children First has meant that 20 year old Elvin Kumuli, this month had open-heart surgery not available in her native PNG.... Read more

Epworth HealthCare is currently examining new research that questions the economic benefits of the government’s proposed means-testing of private health insurance rebates.... Read more

Epworth HealthCare welcomes the resolution carried at this week’s Council meeting that will enable Epworth HealthCare and Deakin University to move a step closer to establishing a joint Teaching Hospital in the City of Greater Geelong.... Read more

Epworth HealthCare today congratulated Peter Mac on their acquisition of a da Vinci surgical robot – the first to be established in a public hospital in Victoria.... Read more

Epworth HealthCare is delighted to announce that a staff team from Epworth Richmond has collected first prize in the Australian Private Hospitals Association (APHA) inaugural Valuing Private Hospital Staff Awards for Team Excellence.... Read more

Twenty-one enthusiastic cyclists arrived back in Melbourne this week after pedalling their way from Ho Chi Minh to Phnom Penh to raise more than $50,000 towards Epworth HealthCare’s HeartSmart cardiac rehabilitation program.... Read more

Epworth Freemasons has opened a new GP Clinic on Albert Street in East Melbourne.... Read more