Monash Medical Centre (MMC) is a teaching hospital in Melbourne, Australia. It provides specialist tertiary-level healthcare to the Melbourne's south-east. Monash Medical Centre is part of Monash Health, the largest public health service in Victoria. History Monash Medical Centre was formed in 1987 with the amalgamation of the Queen Victoria Medical Centre (an obstetric and gynaecological hospital in central Melbourne), Prince Henry's Hospital (a general hospital in South Melbourne) and the Moorabbin Hospital (a general hospital in Moorabbin). It was built on the site of McCulloch House, a nursing home. Services Monash Children's Hospital Cardiology MonashHeart provides cardiology related services and cardiac care at the Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, and at Dandenong Hospital. MonashHeart is the busiest interventional cardiology service in the state, providing coronary angiography and coronary angioplasty services to the entire south eastern area of the state. MonashHeart is the largest non-invasive imaging service in Victoria, performing nearly 14,000 echocardiograms each year for newborns through to adults. Acute cardiac inpatient services are provided across the network. There is a 21-bed cardiac care unit at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, which manages a high case load of ST-elevation acute myocardial infarctions, with a daily case load of 3–4 cases not being unusual; A 12-bed cardiac care unit at Dandenong Hospital, which shares the coronary angiography and angioplasty services with Monash Medical Centre, Clayton; A 24-bed combined cardiology and cardiothoracic unit, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton which manages all the post op cardiothoracic cases, as well as other general cardiology cases. MonashHeart became a luminary site for the 320-slice Toshiba Aquilion One CT scanner in September 2008, the first health service to do so in the southern hemisphere. There have been numerous other medical firsts achieved by MonashHeart: first robotic heart operation in the southern hemisphere first Arctic Front case in Australia first WATCHMAN case in Australia first Australian centre approved for independent percutaneous valve replacement Kidney and pancreatic transplant Monash Medical Centre is designated a national provider of kidney and pancreatic transplants. This is a legacy of the endocrinology service provided at the former Prince Henry's Hospital, which transferred its services to Monash Medical Centre, Clayton in 1987. It is currently the second largest kidney transplant unit in Melbourne in terms of numbers, after the Royal Melbourne Hospital. In 2011, there were a record number of kidney transplants performed at the Monash Medical Centre, with 92 recorded. The renal ward at