ACL reconstruction waiting time at Werribee Mercy Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for ACL reconstruction — published by the source as “Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction” — at this public hospital in the Hoppers Crossing area of Victoria, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 66 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 15 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 108 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 34 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 178 days in 2019–20 to 66 days in 2024–25 — down 63% — while the national median fell from 82 days to 81 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], about 26 km away, at 31 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Werribee Mercy Hospital	66 days	not published	15 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	68 days	4.7%	944 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	81 days	5.7%	4122 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 81 days marks the national median.

Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 17 km away92 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 25 km away109 days
The AlfredVIC · about 25 km away86 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 26 km away31 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 26 km away37 days
Sandringham HospitalVIC · about 29 km away240 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 32 km away93 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 34 km away143 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Werribee Mercy Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	56	78
2017–18	not published	56	78
2018–19	not published	69	82
2019–20	178	69	82
2020–21	not published	126	97
2021–22	not published	84	89
2022–23	151	84	95
2023–24	not published	74	82
2024–25	66	68	81

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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