The Bendigo hospital has provided medical and surgical services to the people of the Bendigo region since its establishment in November 1852.
With over 3,000 staff and covering an area a quarter the size of Victoria, Bendigo Health is a 678 bed service that treats over 34,000 in-patients, deals with over 42,000 emergency attendances and 1,100 babies are born each year. These services are complemented by a 60-bed rehabilitation unit, eight bed critical care unit and five operating theatres where around 10,000 surgical procedures are performed annually.
The organisation provides services in emergency, maternity, women's health, medical imaging, pathology, rehabilitation, community services, residential aged care, psychiatric care, community dental, hospice, palliative care, cardiology, cancer services and renal dialysis to the people of the Loddon Mallee region.
The three main campuses of Bendigo Health, the Bendigo hospital and Anne Caudle Centre campuses and the John Bomford Centre are in Bendigo, with many services extended to regional settings including areas such as Mildura, Echuca, Swan Hill, Kyneton and Castlemaine.