A Community Health Hub is being built at 244 Flinders Street to provide treatment for addiction and disadvantage.
Works have started on the Community Health Hub site, which will be operated by cohealth and offer primary care, mental health services, addiction treatment and social support when it opens next year in Flinders Street.
Mental Health Minister Ingrid Stitt today announced construction had begun on the interior fit-out, delivered by the Victorian Health Building Authority and Lendlease.
The Community Health Hub will feature consulting rooms, a drop-in area with kitchen, laundry and shower facilities, a pharmacy, counselling spaces and a reception designed with input from health experts and people with lived experience.
The site will also host a state-first hydromorphone treatment trial for select participants identified by cohealth, aiming to divert people from the illicit drug market.
Community Health Hub
- Where: 244 Flinders Street, Melbourne
- When: Opening 2026
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Research shows hydromorphone therapy leads to sustained reductions in illicit heroin use and other drugs, alongside health and social improvements.
Community Health Hub forms part of the Victorian government’s $95 million Statewide Action Plan to reduce drug harm. All initiatives within the plan are either completed or underway, including the appointment of the state’s first Chief Addiction Medicine Adviser earlier this year. The Salvation Army centre at 69 Bourke Street now provides medical, nursing and mental health support, while expanded street outreach operates across the city, Footscray and St Kilda. These outreach services have delivered nearly 7,000 harm reduction supports and connected hundreds of Victorians to care.
Remediation works were completed earlier at the Flinders Street site before construction began on the interior fit-out. The hub aims to provide integrated support for vulnerable people experiencing addiction and disadvantage, bringing multiple services together under one roof. The hydromorphone trial represents a new approach to treating persistent addiction in Victoria, offering an alternative for people who haven’t responded to other treatments.
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