News and Events - Epworth HealthCare

Epworth HealthCare today announced that following the appointment of Baulderstone to build Stage 1 of the planned $440 million redevelopment, works on the Bridge Road site are ready to begin next week.... Read more

Victoria’s Epworth HealthCare has expanded its clinical facilities to include a small private hospital in Simpson Street East Melbourne, located half way between Epworth Freemasons and its Richmond site... Read more

Dr Megan Robertson, Executive Medical Director Epworth Healthcare, reported yesterday that Epworth Richmond has managed three patients diagnosed with the hyper virulent strain of Clostridium difficile since February this year.... Read more

Earlier this month at Epworth Richmond, Healthcare Imaging Services (formerly Symbion Imaging) officially launched the Somatom Definition Flash CT - the world’s fastest, lowest dose and most advanced CT scanner developed by Siemens.... Read more

Epworth Freemasons today dedicated the newly-renovated Courtyard of Peace and Harmony, as a place of respite for patients, visitors and staff of its Clarendon Street site.... Read more

Canadian musician Carl Dixon, who received serious injuries in a 2008 road trauma, returned to Epworth Rehabilitation this week to perform for doctors and staff who worked with him over his four months stay.... Read more

Epworth is proud to join health care providers from across Australia’s private health sector to celebrate the first-ever Private Hospitals Week.... Read more

Historian Dr Janette Bomford’s 350-page history entitled 'Epworth: A Tradition of Care 1920-2010' was launched this evening by Victoria’s Governor de Kretser at Government House, Melbourne.... Read more

In preparation for commencement of major construction works to the existing Bridge Rd Building planned to commence in May 2010, works are required to upgrade the Erin St turning circle.... Read more

Paul Ramadge, Editor in Chief of The Age addressed a fundraising forum today.... Read more

Epworth HealthCare celebrated International Women’s Day by being awarded Employer of Choice for Women status – for the ninth year in a row — the only healthcare organisation to have been recognised for this period of time.... Read more

Epworth would like to welcome Richard Gerraty as the first Victor Smorgon Chair of Medicine at Monash University.... Read more

This weekend marks the 90th birthday of Epworth... Read more

Epworth HealthCare Group Chief Executive Alan Kinkade announced today that Epworth has appointed its first in-house legal counsel since the hospital was established in 1920. Prominent Melbourne lawyer Ms Elizabeth Kennedy is appointed to the new position of Corporate Counsel at Epworth from early December 2009.... Read more

This Thursday, 10 December, the TAC (Transport Accident Commission) is asking all Victorians to indicate their commitment to road safety by driving with their headlights on.... Read more

Baxter Healthcare today celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Epworth Baxter Therapy Services (BTS) Centre at Epworth HealthCare in Richmond.... Read more

Last week the Victorian Government announced that they would fast-track Epworth’s application to proceed with the $350 million redevelopment of Epworth Richmond.... Read more

This Saturday at Etihad Stadium, four high profile organisations will help raise awareness of Acquired Brain Injury for the annual ABI Cup.

Thanks to TAC and Melbourne Victory, both the game and tomorrow’s pre-match fundraising breakfast will be brought to a much larger and broader audience. On Saturday, for the first time, the match will play as a curtain raiser to the A-League game between Melbourne Victory and the Central Coast Mariners.... Read more

The Victorian Cancer Council Helpline Manager Mary Mercovich and her colleague Edwina Beddoes will join a panel of Epworth Freemasons experts for this year’s Pink Ribbon Day Survivorship Seminar at the Park Hyatt Hotel on Monday 26 October.... Read more

Epworth Eastern has won the 2009 APHA Award for Clinical Excellence.... Read more

Thanks to a generous donation by the Victor Smorgon Charitable Fund, Epworth HealthCare today launched The Victor Smorgon Epworth Education & Research Institute.... Read more

An innovative international training and research agreement between two leading private not-for-profit health care groups - Epworth HealthCare and the Cleveland Clinic – was signed at Epworth Healthcare today.... Read more

Epworth Rehabilitation staff Pam Ross and Claire Taylor announced recently that they had both been awarded an RACV Scholarships which will see them further develop projects that have arisen from their work with patients who have suffered Traumatic Brain Injury.... Read more

Epworth HealthCare Group Chief Executive Alan Kinkade confirmed today that the application to redevelop and extend the Richmond site received approval at last night’s City of Yarra Council meeting.... Read more

Jackson Spinal Table

In June, Epworth Healthcare's Richmond campus became the first adult hospital in Victoria to purchase a Jackson Spinal Surgery Table. The table is considered state-of-the-art equipment for spinal surgery positioning.... Read more

Internationally-renowned expert in Acquired Brain Injury rehabilitation Dr John Olver has today been appointed by Epworth HealthCare and Monash University to the Victor Smorgon Chair of Rehabilitation Medicine.... Read more

Deputy Commissioner of Road Policing Ken Lay visited a road trauma patient at Epworth Rehabilitation in Richmond today before publicly reminding all Victorians to take care on the roads during the upcoming Queens Birthday weekend.... Read more

Epworth HealthCare has announced a $350m major redevelopment of their leading not-for-profit private hospital in Richmond. The hospital will be redeveloped and expanded to provide world class facilities with an extra 270 inpatient beds including emergency department beds further enhancing the excellence of care provided for its patients.... Read more

Epworth HealthCare has again been awarded Employer of Choice for Women status – making it eight years in a row that it has achieved this recognition.... Read more

For its birthday, Epworth’s chief Librarian Madeline Simcoe invited all staff to look closely at Historical Highlights and Memorable Milestone - a detailed summary of significant moments during the last 89 years.... Read more

Today Group Chief Executive Mr Alan Kinkade announced that the Epworth Board had agreed to match the total staff contribution of $21,892 and add funds to make the total donation from Epworth HealthCare, $50,000.... Read more

Staff at Epworth Healthcare’s five locations began collecting cash donations today to help Victorians affected by the weekend’s bushfires, with Epworth Executive matching those donations dollar for dollar, up to $10,000.... Read more

Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan

Epworth HealthCare in Victoria is set to establish Australia’s first dedicated Prostate Cancer Research Centre at its Richmond site, thanks to a $7.5 million grant from the Rudd Government, Treasurer Wayne Swan announced today.... Read more

Epworth HealthCare was last night named winner of the “Large Business Turnaround of the Year” award, presented by the Victorian Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association.... Read more

Epworth HealthCare today celebrated its 1000th robotic procedure at the Richmond campus since introducing the da Vinci system to Australia in December 2003.... Read more

Epworth Eastern has recently acquired the most technologically-advanced Lithotripsy Suite available in today’s medical equipment market.... Read more

A Peace Garden for patients and families was opened today, adjacent to the Oncology Ward at Epworth Richmond.... Read more

Group Chief Executive of Epworth HealthCare Alan Kinkade has chosen International Nurses' Day to announce six scholarships for Epworth nursing and non-nursing staff.... Read more

To mark national Volunteer Week, Epworth HealthCare will host a number of functions to celebrate its healthy proportion of Australia's 5.4 million volunteers.... Read more

During April, Epworth Eastern performed its 500th robotic surgical procedure using the da Vinci Robot Surgical System, since the hospital opened in 2004.... Read more

The Australian Government Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, EOWA, who introduced its Employer of Choice Awards in 2001, has again named Epworth HealthCare among its top Employer of Choice for Women in 2008.... Read more

Following football celebrity Sam Newman’s radical prostatectomy at Epworth Eastern, surgeons at Epworth HealthCare confirmed they perform the highest number of robot-assisted surgical procedures in Australia and New Zealand.... Read more