Preston & Northcote Community Hospital

The Preston & Northcote Community Hospital (often referred to as PANCH) was a former hospital located in Preston, Victoria, Australia, opened in 1958 and relocated to the Northern Hospital in Epping in February 1998. PANCH was located on the corner of Bell and Hotham Streets. The site was sold off in April 1999, and part of the 30,000-square-metre (320,000 sq ft) site is now occupied by The Bell Centre (student accommodation).

Fixtures from the hospital were removed by volunteers to help rebuild a community hospital in Suai, East Timor. The hospital's former operating theatres were used for a play on genetic engineering named The Teratology Project in 2002.

A new facility called the PANCH Health Service was established in 2003 by the State Government to address a shortage of medical services in the area. This State Government health service, which is located opposite the old PANCH site, is named out of nostalgia and is not directly connected with the former Preston & Northcote Community Hospital.

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Coordinates: 37°44′47″S 145°0′32″E / 37.74639°S 145.00889°E / -37.74639; 145.00889

Hospitals in Victoria

General/Acute/Emergency	The Alfred Hospital Austin Hospital Box Hill Hospital Epworth Eastern Epworth Hospital Knox Private Hospital Maroondah Hospital Mitcham Private Hospital Monash Medical Centre The Northern Hospital Royal Children's Hospital The Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne Royal Melbourne Hospital Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital Royal Women's Hospital St Vincent's Hospital St Vincents & Mercy Private Hospital Sunshine Hospital Western Hospital, Footscray

Long term / rehab / outpatient	Frankston Hospital Frances Perry Private Hospital Freemasons Hospital Mercy Hospital for Women Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute St Vincents & Mercy Private Hospital Werribee Mercy Hospital

Psychiatric	The Alfred Hospital Austin Hospital Box Hill Hospital Frankston Hospital Royal Melbourne Hospital Maroondah Hospital Mitcham Private Hospital Monash Medical Centre St Vincent's Hospital Thomas Embling Hospital Werribee Mercy Hospital

Research / Teaching	The Alfred Hospital Austin Hospital Box Hill Hospital Epworth Hospital Frankston Hospital Monash Children's Hospital Monash Medical Centre Royal Children's Hospital Royal Melbourne Hospital Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital Royal Women's Hospital St Vincent's Hospital

Defunct hospitals	Ararat Asylum Beechworth Asylum Brierly Fairfield Hospital Heatherton Sanitoriam Kew Asylum Lakeside Mental Hospital Larundel Mont Park Asylum Mordialloc-Cheltenham Community Hospital Preston & Northcote Community Hospital Prince Henry's Hospital Queen Victoria Hospital Royal Park Sunbury Asylum Yarra Bend Asylum

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