Mona Vale Hospital


Mona Vale Hospital is located in the suburb of Mona Vale, on the Northern Beaches of metropolitan Sydney, Australia. It is public hospital managed by New South Wales Health, and part of the Northern Sydney Local Health District.
The hospital was incorporated on 21 November 1958 under the Public Hospitals Act 1929, and opened on 22 February 1964 by the then Minister for Health, the Hon. William Francis SheahanN. It initially accommodated 152 inpatients, with acute specialty services in Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care, General Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, General Medicine, General Paediatrics, Geriatrics, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care. The Accident and Emergency department opened shortly thereafter, on 23 March 1964. Finally, in 1975, a 43 bed Paediatric Unit was opened on Level 6, replacing a staff canteen.
As of October 2018 the majority of acute specialty services were transferred to the newly built Northern Beaches Hospital. As a result, Mona Vale Hospital is currently being redeveloped to include a range of sub-acute inpatient services, including Geriatric, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care, as well as the establishment of an outpatient Community Health Centre for Allied Health and Nursing reviews.

Urgent Care Centre

The hospital's former Emergency Department has been re-purposed into a 24 hour Urgent Care Centre, intended to assess and treat minor illnesses and injuries on an outpatient basis. It is staffed by experienced medical practitioners with backgrounds in emergency medicine and/or general practice, who work alongside registered nurses and physiotherapists. Additionally, there are pathology and X-Ray services available on-site during extended daytime hours. Patients at Mona Vale Hospital requiring further medical assessment and/or a higher level of care have traditionally been transferred via ambulance to Royal North Shore Hospital or Sydney Children's Hospital, though the preferred facility for these cases is now the newly opened Northern Beaches Hospital. Since its opening in October 2018, the Urgent Care Centre has seen an average of about 50 to 80 patients daily, with about 6% of them requiring onwards transfer to other facilities.