Monash Medical Centres (MMC) is a multicampus teaching hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Clayton campus is in Clayton, the Moorabbin Campus at East Bentleigh. It provides specialist care to the State's south-east. It was formed in 1987 with the amalgamation of the "Queen Victoria Medical Centre" (an obstetric and gynaecological hospital), "Prince Henry's Hospital" (a general hospital) and "Moorabbin Hospital". It is part of "Southern Health" - Victoria's largest Metropolitan Health Service, along with "Dandenong Hospital", "Kingston Centre", and "Hampton Rehabilitation Hospital". As a large tertiary referral hospital it provides neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, and houses intensive care units treating neonatal, paediatric and adult patients. MMC has a particular interest in In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) and the treatment of obesity. It is associated with Monash University, with eight departments based there, being the centrepiece of the Centre's research projects. Other research institutions at the Monash Medical Centre are the Monash Institute for Medical Research, Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research and the Monash Institute of Health Services Research.[1]
