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EMERGENCY patients will no longer be treated at the Epworth Freemasons Hospital in East Melbourne.
Epworth HealthCare will close the emergency department on October 12 -- just six months after it took over management of the private hospital.
Patients will be taken to the emergency department at the Epworth hospital in Richmond.
Seventeen East Melbourne medical staff will be transferred to the Richmond hospital, along with medical equipment.
The closure was announced yesterday --...