Medical Director: 	Dr Craig French	
Nurse Manager: 	Tony Trapani	

The Western Health Intensive Care Unit has been situated at the Footscray campus of Western Health since July 2002.  

The Western Health Intensive Care Unit is a 14-bed adult unit, delivering best practice across a wide variety of adult surgical and adult medical areas. The unit has specialist Intensive Care medical coverage, supported by registrars and residents, for the entire 24-hour period.  

Specialist Critical Care nurses attend to patient care on a 24 hourly basis.  The patient to nurse ratio in ICU is 1:1 and in high dependency is 1:2.
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Footscray Hospital - Western Health

Pensioners and health card holders can be provided Bulk Billed services

Robert Lefkovits Medical Practitioners

Services including : Medical Specialist, Consultant Physcian

The Alfred Intensive Care Unit

Availability varies, please call to confirm.

Dr Andrew Casamento - Principal Practice

Cabrini Hospital - Malvern

Services Available:
-Membership
-Advocacy for the intensive care community

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society

Services including advocacy and research for intensive care; patient database.

Northern Hospital

Northern Health - Northern Hospital

Knox Private Hospital

* Please contact Carol McKenzie for more information on Maroondah Hospital's acute care program. 

Intensive Care Services including Cardiology.

Maroondah Hospital

Please call 03 5925 6440 to confirm service hours and availability.

Dr David Charlesworth

Dr David Charlesworth is a highly experienced General
Perioperative and Respiratory Physician with widespread
intensive care experience. David is also a qualified and
practising Intensivist. He is committed to providing the best
personalised care for his patients; in particular in developing
treatment strategies to deliver optimum clinical success for
patients presenting with complex medical concerns.

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