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(functioned from 1975-1987)

Operated as Moorabbin Community and District Hospital; thereafter merged with Monash Medical Centre Clayton to become Monash Medical Centre Moorabbin

1949	Land was purchased for a hospital in Moorabbin.
1975	Official opening of Moorabbin Community and District Hospital on 1 December by the then Governor of Victoria, Sir Henry Winneke, on Centre Road in East Bentleigh. The midwifery ward opened with eight beds while the nursery block was equipped by the Kiwanis Club of Moorabbin.
1976	Moorabbin Hospital had its first birth on 15 January, when Jacob Evans was born, weighing 3325 grams. This event was marked by the presentation of a silver chalice to mother and baby from the ladies auxiliary. This also was the beginning of a baby boom as during that year 268 babies were delivered.
1977	The midwifery ward’s beds were extended from eight to twenty. Perhaps this was because 422 babies were born at the hospital. The smallest baby in the history of the hospital was born while half the babies born at the hospital in that year needed intensive care. In light of this, a community support group, The Pacemaker Set, contributed funds towards the purchase of a new humidicrib for the hospital, as did the Sevenly Sevens, an association of Masters of Freemasons
1989	On 6 March, Aymen Hag, a healthy baby boy, was the first child born at Moorabbin Campus’s Community Midwifery Centre. Ms Alison French was the mid-wife co-ordinator.
1990	In June, the construction of the new West Block at the Moorabbin Campus of MMC was completed. The Birth Centre created for Monash Medical Centre Clayton moved to Moorabbin in September.