8 / 10
specialists so we would become a
pre-eminent service. And we’ve done
that in cardiology, orthopaedics,
neurosurgery and cardiac surgery.
Another thing we did with our sister
hospital is we closed our surgery
and we transferred South Eastern
private into a sub-acute facility, so
it was complementary to a strategy
of focusing on high acuity and high
technology of The Valley. So the
transfer as well from something like
surgery to rehabilitation is quite
complementary. The other quick
thing I should mention as well is
we had to invest in staff education
and also recruit more staff.”
Moving forward, the Valley Hospital has
a 2020 vision, which they have been
workinghard toachieve. Theirmajor goal
is to become the premieremajor private
hospital in South Eastern Victoria. They
are working towards stretching their
range and scope to South Eastern
Melbourne by building 560 hospital
beds between The Valley Hospital and
South Eastern Private Hospital. Mental
health is another big and growing
demand which they hope to meet,
“That’ll focus on anxiety, depression
and alcohol and drug addiction. And
that equates to just over 50% of
market share for South East Victoria
by the year 2020,” says Henderson.