Send flowers to Cabrini Hospital in Malvern or Brighton

Cabrini is the big private hospital of Melbourne's inner south-east. Cabrini Malvern, at 181-183 Wattletree Road, Malvern VIC 3144, is a 508-bed acute hospital with an emergency department, intensive and coronary care, maternity, paediatrics, cancer services, neurosurgery and orthopaedics. Cabrini Brighton, at 243 New Street, Brighton VIC 3186, is a 138-bed hospital focused on oncology, orthopaedics and rehabilitation, ENT, eye, plastic and urology surgery. Both are run by Cabrini Health, founded when ten Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart arrived from Italy in 1948 to take over a small Malvern hospital called St Benedict's. A local florist makes up your flowers and delivers them by hand; we never promise a delivery time to a hospital, but a weekday morning order usually arrives that afternoon.

Say Malvern or Brighton

Searches for "flowers to Cabrini" rarely say which one, and the two hospitals are eight kilometres apart. Put the campus on the order along with the patient's full name, the ward and a room number if you know it. Malvern has the maternity unit, the children's ward and the emergency department, so a new-baby bouquet almost always goes to Wattletree Road; a patient recovering from a hip or knee replacement or having chemotherapy may be at either.

Cabrini's visiting hours and where flowers go

Cabrini publishes its visiting hours: most wards 10am to 2.30pm and 4.30pm to 8pm, with a rest period in between; maternity 3pm to 8pm, with the other parent welcome any time; paediatrics 10am to noon and 2pm to 8pm; intensive care and palliative care by arrangement with the care team. The main entrances are open from 6am to 8pm. The florist delivers during the day and leaves the bouquet with reception or the ward clerk, so the rest period does not stop a delivery, but it does mean the patient may not see the flowers until the afternoon.

Which Cabrini wards accept flowers?

Cabrini does not publish a flower policy, so ring the ward. As a general rule in Australian private hospitals, intensive care, coronary care and haematology units take no fresh flowers, chemotherapy and day oncology units usually ask for none, and maternity, orthopaedic and rehabilitation wards normally welcome a small arrangement. On the children's ward ask about balloons and soft toys as well as flowers, since rules on those vary. If the answer is no, the family home in Malvern East, Armadale, Glen Iris or Hampton is a better address, and a stay in a private hospital is often only a few nights anyway.

What suits a Cabrini room

A compact bouquet with a water reservoir or a posy in a jar fits on a locker and needs no vase. Gerberas, roses, alstroemeria, ranunculus and native stems such as waxflower keep a week in a heated room; lilies, hyacinths and strongly perfumed flowers should stay out of shared rooms, and potted plants are often refused. For a new baby, small beats big. For someone in a long rehabilitation stay at Brighton, a second bouquet a fortnight later is worth more than one large one on day one.

Cut-off for Malvern and Brighton

Same-day delivery is available Monday to Saturday for orders placed before 2pm on a weekday or 10am on a Saturday, Melbourne time, though to a hospital same day is never guaranteed, and there is no Sunday delivery. Give a mobile number so the florist can reach you if the patient has gone home, in which case the bouquet is redirected for a second delivery fee. Bouquets start at AUD 75 and the delivery charge is shown at checkout.

Did you know? Cabrini Malvern is a 508-bed private hospital founded in 1948 by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart; Cabrini Brighton has 138 beds.