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Expert specimen collection staff  work at all Austin Pathology Collection Centres in the community, as well as for inpatients and outpatient collections at Austin Health, Mercy Hospital for Women, Werribee Mercy Hospital and Northern Health.

Collection Facilities

Austin Hospital

Outpatient Department,
Level 3, Harold Stokes Bldg
Burgundy St,
Heidelberg, VIC, 3084
Telephone: 9496 5472
Fax: 9496 3935
Hours: 7 am - 5.00 pm Mon - Fri
Mel 31, J4

Broadmeadows Health Service

Outpatients Consulting Rooms 
35 Johnstone St,
Broadmeadows, VIC, 3047
Telephone: 8345 5398
Fax: 8345 5308
Hours: 8.30 am - 5.00 pm Mon - Fri
Mel 6, F9		 

The Northern Hospital

Outpatient Department
Ground level
185 Cooper St,
Epping, VIC, 3079
Telephone: 8405 8350
Fax: 8405 8711
Hours: 8.00 am - 5.00 pm Mon - Fri
Mel 181, J12

Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital

Outpatient Department
Ground Floor, Tobruk Bldg
Edwin St,
Heidelberg, VIC, 3081
Telephone: 9496 2818
Fax: 9496 4120
Hours: 8.00 am - 4.45 pm Mon - Fri
Mel 31, G4

Mercy Hospital for Women

Outpatient Department
Level 3,
Studley Rd,
Heidelberg, VIC, 3081
Telephone: 8458 4276
Fax: 8458 4193
Hours: 7 am - 6 pm Mon - Fri
Mel 31, G4

Werribee Mercy Hospital

Pathology Department
near Emergency Dept
300 Princes Highway,
Werribee, VIC, 3030
Telephone: 03 9216 8542
Fax: 03 9216 8652
Hours: 8.00 am - 5 pm Mon - Fri
Mel 206, H4

226 Burgundy St (Austin Private Consulting Suite)

226 Burgundy Street,
Heidelberg, VIC, 3084
Telephone: 9459 1497
Fax: 9459 4797
Hours: 8.30 am - 5.00 pm Mon - Fri
9.00 am - 12.00 noon Sat
Mel 31, K4

George St Consulting Suites

2 George St,
Doncaster East, Vic, 3109
Telephone: 9841 6197
Fax: 9842 6486
Hours: 8am - 4.30pm Mon - Fri
Mel 34, C11

 

 

649 Mountain Highway (Knox Medical Centre)

649 Mountain Highway,
Bayswater, VIC, 3153
Telephone: 9729 5371
Fax: 9738 1735
Hours: 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Mon - Fri
9.00 am - 12.00 noon Sat
Mel 64, E4

 

Collection services operate in general, at the following times:

Austin Hospital

Weekdays

Outpatients & Inpatients
Saturday & Sunday morningInpatients
Heidelberg Repatriation HospitalWeekdaysOutpatients & Inpatients
External Collection CentresWeekdaysOutpatients
Saturday morningOutpatients
Mercy Hospital for WomenWeekdaysOutpatients
24 hrs, 7 days a weekInpatients
Werribee Mercy HospitalWeekdaysOutpatients & Inpatients
Saturday & Sunday morningInpatients
The Northern HospitalWeekdaysOutpatients & Inpatients
Saturday & Sunday morningInpatients

At all other times medical staff are responsible for collection of specimens and forwarding them to the laboratory.

Some specimen collections require an appointment at one or more of our centres, for example Glucose Tolerance Test, Helicobacter Pylori Breath Test, Fine Needle Aspiration and Bone Marrow biopsy. Please call to make an appointment.


Domiciliary Collections

Home visits to collect specimens for either Hospital-in-the-Home patients or for the frail and elderly can be arranged through a domiciliary collection service which operates 7 days a week from the main Austin Hospital Collection Centre.

Ph: 9496 5472Monday to Friday8 am - 5.00 pm
Ph: 9496 3100After hours and weekends


Central Specimen Reception

Each of the three laboratories at Austin Hospital, Northern Hospital and Werribee Mercy Hospital operate a Central Specimen Reception open 24 hrs, 7 days/week

Austin Hospital,  Austin Pathology at the Austin Hospital has a Central Specimen Reception located on the

6th floor of the Harold Stokes Building,
Austin Hospital,
Ph: 9496 3100

All pathology specimens should be delivered to the Reception area, excepting Frozen Sections for Anatomical Pathology which at the Austin Hospital, should go directly to Histopathology (also on the 6th floor, Harold Stokes Building, Austin Hospital).


Courier Services

Austin Pathology has a fleet of courier cars for specimen pick up and report delivery to our clients as well as to our laboratories at the Northern Hospital and Werribee Mercy Hospital. Enquiries regarding this service can be made via Central Specimen Reception. Ph: 9496 3100.

There is a 24 hour Austin Health courier service for transporting specimens between the Austin and Repatriation Hospitals.

A foot courier service operates between the Mercy Hospital for Women and Austin Pathology.
 
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