Vision: Improved quality of life through caring for the senses.

Mission: As a world leader, to provide comprehensive eye, ear, nose and throat services, education, research and health promotion for the community with emphasis on highly specialised care by setting international standards of quality, innovation and efficiency.

Values: Integrity, Care, Teamwork, Excellence

Hospital Profile

Based at East Melbourne, the Hospital, primarily an ambulatory and elective surgery centre, is one of Victoria’s largest hospitals in terms of patient appointments. It undertakes half of the State’s public general eye surgery, up to 90% of special eye surgery, and almost all of Victoria’s public cochlear implant surgery.

Annually, the Hospital provides over 220,000 occasions of service to patients ranging from medical and allied health outpatient clinics, to emergency and inpatient admissions.

Since its beginnings in 1863, when the Hospital was an infirmary treating diseases of the eye and ear amongst Melbourne’s poor, the Hospital has grown in size and reputation. As a world leader in eye, ear, nose and throat services, the Hospital is now at the cutting edge of research and teaching. This is supported through its close association with the University of Melbourne Departments of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology which are co-located with the Hospital.

The Hospital also operates three satellite services: at Maroondah Hospital in Ringwood; at Broadmeadows Health Service – a division of Northern Health; and a paediatric hearing clinic at Taralye. The Hospital has strong affiliations with regional health services and its medical registrars undertake a rotation across Victoria.

Training

In conjunction with Melbourne’s leading universities, we teach and train:

• Undergraduate Medical, Orthoptic and Optometry students
• Postgraduate Nursing (internal certificate) students
• Postgraduate Optometry students
• Postgraduate Ophthalmology, Ear, Nose & Throat, and Anaesthetic students
• Limited Emergency Medicine students

Through our association with the University of Melbourne Departments of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, both based in the Hospital, we are able to remain at the forefront of teaching and research in these specialty areas. We also work closely with the Centre for Eye Research Australia, the Bionic Ear Institute and the Human Communication Research Centre.

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