PET near Cohuna, VIC

Cohuna does not have a PET scanner. The nearest one is at Bendigo Radiology Nuclear Medicine in Bendigo, about 105 km away, roughly 1 hr 39 min by road. After that, the options are Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat in Ballarat (197 km).

Cohuna has no accredited imaging practice of its own that we can see in the register, so any scan means travelling. The closest imaging of any kind is Barham Koondrook Soldiers Memorial Hospital in Barham, 22 km away.

To put 105 km in context: of the 850 VIC towns we hold, 125 are further than Cohuna from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

105 km is a real trip, not a detail. Before you drive it, it is worth asking two things: whether you qualify for your state's patient travel assistance scheme, which exists for exactly this, and whether anything closer runs a visiting service — some regional hospitals do, on a roster we cannot see in the 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 Cohuna is where it is.

Accreditation windows: Bendigo Radiology Nuclear Medicine to 31 July 2027 and Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat to 31 July 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the two practices 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.