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The Short Stay Unit at Wonthaggi Hospital was identified as a Tier 2 COVID exposure site on Monday, 30 August from 7.40pm to 8.14pm. This exposure was due to a...
Bass Coast Health is offering further mental health care to inpatients at Wonthaggi Hospital through a new dedicated Mental Health Clinician role. Kylie Burns joins BCH in response to the...
Bass Coast Health CEO Jan Child is urging the community to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and to remember that a full vaccination does not eliminate their risk of transmitting the...
A mother and son team at Bass Coast Health are keeping people as healthy as can be through their service to the organisation and the community. Bernie and Blake Carew...
Inpatients with COVID symptoms can be tested for COVID-19 within three hours at South Gippsland hospitals when a clinically urgent result is required. Monash Health Pathology is offering Rapid COVID-19...
An icon of Bass Coast Health attributes his medical career to a pioneering operation that saved his life 60 years ago. Dr Bruce Waxman OAM was one of the first...
Dealing with medical emergencies can take its toll on health professionals. That’s why the staff at Wonthaggi Hospital’s Emergency Department took part in R U OK events last week, as...
With active cases of COVID-19 in our region we have updated hours for testing at our two sites in Cowes and Wonthaggi and added a walk-in site. Please see below...
Have you visited any of the exposure sites? There is a growing number of public COVID exposure sites locally and throughout greater Melbourne. Please check the Victorian Government site for...
Patients receiving chemotherapy and other specialty treatments are benefiting from first-class treatment by leading specialists at Bass Coast Health (BCH), conveniently close to home. The L. Rigby Centre at Wonthaggi...