Acute services

Our acute services help you, as a busy GP, to easily refer your patients to our hospital so they can access our leading private care and avoid public hospital wait times.

You can refer patients directly to the following acute services at St John of God Subiaco Hospital:

Acute Cardiac Service

The hospital’s Acute Cardiac Service offers 24/7 cardiac care for privately insured patients experiencing acute cardiac symptoms including:

cardiac arrhythmia (such as bradycardia)
presyncope/syncope
suspected heart failure
pacemaker/cardiac device issues.

Please note that patients with STEMIs are not currently accepted through this service.

Patients who meet our admission criteria are admitted directly into our Coronary Care Unit, where they are cared for by the hospital’s leading cardiologists and specialist nurses.

The service is delivered in collaboration with Western Cardiology and includes an acute admission and assessment area.

To admit a patient directly to the centre, please call 0411 707 017.

Acute Medical Unit (AMU)

For fast hospital admission, acutely unwell patients with private hospital cover can now be referred to the Acute Medical Unit (AMU).

This service is available seven days a week between 8.00am and 8.00pm, and is led by on-call physicians, resident medical officers and our highly experienced nurses.

The following clinical exclusions apply:

patients awaiting care placement
acute abdominal pain
GI bleed
patients requiring companions for wandering or aggression
potential stroke
dialysis
dyscopia
anyone who has had major primary surgery elsewhere in the last 10 days.

Please call 1800 782 443 to access this service.