Ballarat Cardiology was established in 2012 by Dr Christopher Hengel and Dr Rodney Reddy with the aim to provide a wide range of cardiac services to the community of Western Victoria. Ballarat Cardiology has 13 Cardiologists consulting in our rooms including a variety of cardiac sub-specialties such as coronary intervention, pacing, electrocardiography, stress testing, cardiac imaging, electrophysiology and cardiac surgery reviews. Our local specialists have associations with Melbourne University, Notre Dame and Deakin University medical schools.
For Non-insured patients our local specialists are accredited at Grampians Health – Ballarat hospital. Procedures not performed locally can be organised through any of the major cardiac centres such as (but not limited to) Barwon Health, Royal Melbourne hospital or The Alfred hospital.
Insured patients requiring cardiac procedures have the options of St John of God Hospital – Ballarat (angiograms/stenting, pacemakers (including internal defibrillators and resynchronisation devices), DC reversion, Transoesophageal echo), Cabrini Hospital – Malvern (cardiac surgery, angiograms/stenting, electrophysiology), Melbourne Private (cardiac surgery and electrophysiology), St John of God Hospital – Geelong (cardiac surgery, angiograms/stenting, electrophysiology).
We also provide cardiac services to regional locations via our remote clinics.
Our Vision
Provide the best quality private cardiac care in Western Victoria.
Our Mission
Accessible and collaborative team of cardiologists and quality support people including administration staff, nursing staff and technicians. Grow strong relationships with rural and remote practices to support the local patients to these practices. Have relationships with quality hospitals able to provide enhanced care to our patients.
Our Values
Commitment to best practice
- Ensure a variety of specialist cardiologists
- Ensure quality relationships with organisations to ensure quality test results are obtained
- Friendly and highly trained staff
Access to leading public and private hospitals
Provide support our rural and remote patients, as well as our Ballarat patients
- Provide remote testing options
- Remote face to face consultation
- Provide telehealth consultation
Our Purpose
Enhancing quality of Cardiac Care in Western Victoria, supporting our regional, rural and remote patients, to reduce the amount of travel patients must undertake to get quality care.
Remote Clinics
To ensure a high quality service designed to meet the demands of residents in the rural areas of our region, we offer remote clinics in Ararat, Hamilton, Horsham, Maryborough and Stawell. While not all appointments are able to be provided to residents of these areas, we do attempt to make them available to those in most need.
Telehealth
To ensure an excellent service to our regional patients in addition to our remote clinics we also offer a Telehealth service to aim to avoid long periods of travel for review appointments. Learn more about our Teleheath service (Outpatient Clinics)
Remote Testing
To support our patients who live outside of Ballarat, we provide Echocardiographic Clinics in many locations. We also provide some remote clinics with 24 ECG Holter monitors to use for their patients and our Doctors will report the results.