Canterbury Hospital
Grevillea
The High Dependency/Coronary Care Unit known as ‘Grevillea’ is a 12 bed coronary
care/high dependency unit. Patients over the age of 16 years are able to be admitted
to Grevillea. The unit is designated as a Level 4 Intensive Care Unit and is therefore
able to provide continuous invasive and/or non invasive haemodynamic monitoring
for all patients. The unit is capable of the high dependency management of all
critically ill patients as well as providing ventilation for patients awaiting retrieval to
tertiary facilities for ongoing management. Grevillea also manages the operation of
the Medical Emergency Team (Clinical Emergency Response Team) and provides
nursing staff support for MET 24 hours a day.
Emergency Department
The Emergency Department (ED) at Canterbury functions 24 hours, seven days a
week. It services the Local Government Area of Canterbury and surrounding areas,
which have a culturally diverse population of 220 000. The ED is accredited by the
Australasian College for Emergency Medicine for training purposes. It has strong
links with the local General Practitioners through the Central Sydney General
Practice Network. The ED sees approximately 35,000 patients per year of which
approximately 25% of these are children. The ED is supported by the following inhospital specialties - General Medicine, General Surgery, Anaesthetics, Orthopaedics,
Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Palliative Care, Geriatrics and
Rehabilitation. As there are no inpatient facilities for neurosurgical, cardiothoracic
and dialysis conditions, patients with these conditions are transferred to Concord or
Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals who have close links with Canterbury Hospital.