PCR testing continues to be available for all our symptomatic employees.
Symptomatic employees (who have had a negative RAT but continue to be symptomatic) can get priority COVID-19 PCR testing from Dandenong Pathology Collection Centre.
What you need to know
Please ensure you access and use this service safely to keep each other and our patients safe.
- Priority COVID-19 PCR testing is only for symptomatic employees who have had a negative RAT but continue to be symptomatic.
- On arrival, please wait in the air lock at the West entrance (details below), do not wait in the waiting area with other patients.
- If you have COVID-19/flu-like symptoms, please do not attend work.
What you need to do
- Bring your Employee ID, your Medicare card and wear an N95 mask.
- Drive up through the circular driveway off David Street.
- Enter Dandenong Hospital through the West entrance, into the air lock*.
- Ring the doorbell alerting the Pathology collection team (so that the employee is escorted into the pathology collection centre).
- Fill out a pre-populated Request form.
Approved by Tony Korman, Director, Monash Infectious Diseases and Martin Keogh, Chief Operating Officer