PET near Bairnsdale, VIC

There is no PET scanner in Bairnsdale. The nearest one is at I-MED Radiology Traralgon Latrobe Regional Hospital in Traralgon, about 109 km away, roughly 1 hr 42 min by road. It is the only PET service within 200 km of Bairnsdale.

What Bairnsdale does have locally is x-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI. If your referral is for one of those, you do not need to leave town — see everything Bairnsdale has.

For scale, 119 of the 850 towns we hold in VIC sit further from PET than Bairnsdale does.

A 109 km trip is a day out of your life, not an errand. Ask your referring doctor about the patient travel assistance scheme in your state, and ask the nearest hospital whether a visiting service ever covers Bairnsdale — rosters like that do not appear in the accreditation register.

Victoria has 23 PET practices in total, 5 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Bairnsdale is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: I-MED Radiology Traralgon Latrobe Regional Hospital to 30 September 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the one practice listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and one lists opening hours. A phone call before you travel is worth it: a practice can be accredited for a scan and still not run it daily.