About Us
The Epping Medical and Specialist Centre is a business name of Medical Centre Investments Pty Ltd. Medical Centre Investments developed and owns the property. Medical Centre Investments is a joint venture company: the member companies are the McMullin group, Robert Scanlon Medical Centre and Sovereign Health.
Our vision for the Epping Medical and Specialist Centre is nuture the development of a modern, purpose built medical development. Our objective is to be a leader within the health industry and to be recognized for quality health management through the provision of an integrated approach to health care by offering a complete range of services.
Epping Medical and Specialist Centre has brought together a group of general practitioners, medical specialists, diagnostic services and ancillary allied health practitioners who complement each other and strive towards the goal of quality health care.
In doing so we are able to offer patients the convenience of the full range of services in one easily accessible location – a “one stop shop”.
The practitioners in the Epping Medical and Specialist Centre are committed to serving the community and ensuring that the health and well being of the patient remains paramount. The medical centre is able to offer the best quality health care due to the commitment and dedication of the practitioners.
What are we
This purpose built medical centre, comprises a large general practice and the full complement of specialist, diagnostic and allied health services. It is located at 230 Cooper Street, 300 metres west of The Northern Hospital, a 324 bed public hospital which serves the rapidly growing northern suburbs of Melbourne.
The site is located only 18 kilometres north of the Melbourne Central Business District and is readily accessible via Cooper Street, Edgars Road or the Hume Freeway off the Western Ring Road.
The surrounding areas, within the City of Whittlesea are rapidly growing and both the residential and industrial populations are expected to double over the next 25 - 30 years.
The Medical and Specialist Centre has been designed by architects Silver Thomas Hanley to provide approximately 10,000 square metres of lettable area together with 442 on-site carparking spaces, most of which are in our under cover multi-storey carpark.
The medical centre has been designed with an emphasis on patient convenience and comfort, including ease of access from the adjoining carparks. Patients will not have to walk more than 70 metres from their on-site car-parking space to medical centre. At the same time, the medical centre will provide an excellent work environment for all the practitioners and staff working from this modern facility.
A co-operative collegiate-type environment is being facilitated and promoted, encouraging all practitioners and staff to provide a high quality integrated service to their patients, while continuing to operate their own, autonomous businesses within this large medical centre.
Philosophy
The Epping Medical & Specialist Centre will:
- provide a wide and integrated range of medical and allied health services such that, in time it gains recognition as the premier medical centre in the northern suburbs of Melbourne
- provide an Industrial Health service which supports the extensive industrial base within the immediate geographic area
- provide a first-class private medical service to the local community with a focus on the total well being of patients. This objective will be achieved by providing a wide range of general and specialist medical and diagnostic services plus allied health care
- be a medical facility that has high priority on providing a warm, friendly and comfortable amenity for patients
- offer a “collegiate-type” atmosphere for practitioners where general practitioners, specialists, surgeons and health care professionals can work closely together to provide a first-class integrated medical service for their patients while still operating their own practices within a large “one-stop” medical centre
- include the provision of a conference centre with full audio/visual facilities which will allow practitioners and their staff to attend professional development seminars “in house”. The conference facilities can also be utilised for functions and conferences which assist practitioners develop relationships and both work and social contacts
- provide a video link between the conference centre and the theatres in the day surgery to facilitate training and professional development
- allow the conference centre to be used by both staff and local residents for the development and promotion of meaningful health awareness programmes for the community
- have a commitment to patient education, health promotion and prevention with the objective of patient wellbeing and in an effort to encourage patients to lead healthy lifestyles
- provide a medical service that caters for the ethnic communities within the surrounding geographic area. To achieve this, it will be necessary to have strong representation of practitioners who are bi-lingual and capable of making overseas-born patients comfortable and at ease when seeking medical attention
- provide strong representation of female practitioners to cater for the demands of the female community and, in particular, the moral and religious standards of the expanding Asian and Muslim communities
- establish a Medical Advisory Committee to advise the Board of Directors on all medical matters including practitioner accreditation and medical standards