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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.