Leongatha Memorial Hospital services South Gippsland communities, including Leongatha, Korumburra, Foster, Inverloch, and surrounding rural areas.
Providing quality and comprehensive healthcare, including urgent care, surgical procedures, maternity services, oncology, cardiology and physiotherapy.
Supporting the local community through health support, diabetes education, palliative care, rehabilitation, and specialist programs across acute, chronic, and preventative health care.
Are you coming to hospital for an appointment? Do you have a loved one in hospital who you want to visit? There are a number of transport options for you to safely travel to Leongatha Hospital.
Leongatha Hospital reception hours are 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM.
Visiting hours at the Leongatha Hospital are from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM daily, with restrictions on the number of visitors per patient.
To find the parking, enter from the main entrance and follow the signs to the Medical Imaging/Radiology department reception.
Leongatha Community House runs a Wednesday Bus between Leongatha and Korumburra, phone (03) 5662 3962 to book. (Wednesday only)
Regional buses run between Wonthaggi, Inverloch and Traralgon, Morwell via Leongatha station on Long Street. (the old train station acts as a bus depot)
V-Line buses run from the Dandenong Railway station to Leongatha Bus/Train station.
V-Line bus/coach weekday and weekend service runs direct from Southern Cross Station in Melbourne city to Leongatha via Dandenong and Koo Wee Rup.
The distance between the bus station and the Leongatha campus is 1.5km, approximately a 4-minute taxi ride.
Ask your driver to drop you at the main entrance. Uber is not available in Leongatha.
From 1 January 2026, Korumburra Hospital and Leongatha Memorial Hospital, will become part of Bayside Health, a regional public health service bringing together trusted providers across Melbourne and Victoria’s south.
This change strengthens how services work together across the region, while maintaining local hospitals, teams, and care close to home for South Gippsland residents.
Victoria’s newest health service, Bayside Health, has come to life to benefit more than one million Victorians through better connected care.
More than 200 people took the opportunity to see behind the scenes at the Phillip Island Community Hospital in Cowes during the Community Tour Day on Saturday 13 December.
Peninsula University Hospital – formerly known as Frankston Hospital – will open on 20 January.
The Designate Board of Bayside Health is pleased to announce the appointment of Adjunct Prof Adam Horsburgh as the inaugural Chief Executive of the new Bayside Health.
We welcome the Victorian Minister for Health’s announcement of the inaugural board and board chair for Bayside Health.
We welcome the Victorian Minister for Health’s formal approval of the proposed voluntary merger to create Bayside Health — a unified health service that will bring Alfred Health, Bass Coast Health, Gippsland Southern Health Service, Kooweerup Regional Health Service and Peninsula Health together.
