By Casey Neill
The Valley Private Hospital has a new CEO and will soon be home to a new cancer treatment centre.
Kieron Martin started work at the Mulgrave hospital on Monday 19 June.
“I was working previously in the northern suburbs at another hospital and then was recruited by Healthe Care a couple of months ago,” he said.
“I’ve been a healthcare executive since the mid-’90s, originally in the UK and I came here in 2003.
“I started as a pathology technician back in the early 1980s and progressively worked through and increased my responsibility within pathology and then other care services.
“Above all, I care about people and enjoy seeing people get better.”
Mr Martin said there’d been significant investment in the hospital’s buildings and technology.
“We’re currently in the process of building an integrated cancer centre,” he said.
That’s likely to open early next year.
“And we’re building additional consulting rooms and on-site parking.
“We have significant expansion plans for the future.”
The Valley currently offers “everything from emergency services to high-end surgery including robotic surgery”.
“They’ve now got robots here where a surgeon will sit at a console and a robot will operate on a patient,” Mr Martin said.
“Probably our greatest case load is orthopaedic surgery, cardiothoracic surgery and neurosurgery.”
He said he was very excited to be joining the Healthe Care Australia group, part of the Luye Life Sciences Group “who are a very innovative organisation growing healthcare within America and Asia as well as Australia”.
