Our Story
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 12 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.
Our Services
Insured Patients:
Patients with private health insurance have access to a range of cardiac services at several accredited hospitals –
- St John of God Hospital – Ballarat: Angiography and stenting, pacemaker insertion (including implantable defibrillators and cardiac resynchronisation devices), direct cardioversion, and transesophageal echocardiography.
- Cabrini Hospital – Malvern: Cardiac surgery, angiography and stenting, and electrophysiological studies.
- The Alfred Hospital: Cardiac surgery, angiography and stenting, and electrophysiological studies.
Non-Insured Patients:
For patients without private health insurance, local cardiac specialists are accredited to perform procedures at Grampians Health – Ballarat.
Should additional or more complex procedures be required, referrals can be made to major cardiac centres, including but not limited to:
- The Alfred Hospital
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. To Grow strong relationships with rural and remote practices to support the local patients to these practices. Have relationships with quality hospitals able to provide the most 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.