Melbourne Healthcare Guide

Melbourne has three acute care hospitals with emergency departments, Holmes Regional Medical Center, Orlando Health Melbourne Hospital and Viera Hospital, plus the Circles of Care psychiatric hospital, according to the federal CMS hospital list.

All four are listed as voluntary non-profit private hospitals in Brevard County (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services). Holmes Regional Medical Center and Viera Hospital both carry the CMS birthing friendly designation; Orlando Health Melbourne Hospital does not show it in the same list (CMS Provider Data Catalog). The star rating is the CMS overall hospital rating, a federal summary of reported measures, not a ranking by Digital Towns.

Two of the three emergency hospitals share North Wickham Road: Viera Hospital at 8745 N Wickham Rd in ZIP 32940 and Orlando Health Melbourne Hospital at 250 North Wickham Road in ZIP 32935 (CMS). Holmes Regional Medical Center is in ZIP 32901 on South Hickory Street.

Outside Melbourne, the CMS list for Brevard County shows three more acute care hospitals with emergency services: Palm Bay Hospital at 1425 Malabar Rd NE in Palm Bay, Cape Canaveral Hospital in Cocoa Beach and Parrish Medical Center in Titusville.

The federal list counts eight hospitals in Brevard County in all (CMS hospital list for Brevard County). Palm Bay Hospital, phone (321) 434-8000, is the only proprietary acute care hospital among them. Toward the beaches, Cape Canaveral Hospital stands at 701 W Cocoa Beach Causeway in Cocoa Beach, phone (321) 799-7111, and at the north end of the county Parrish Medical Center in Titusville, 951 N Washington Ave, phone (321) 268-6111, is the one hospital CMS lists as owned by a hospital district or authority (CMS). Palm Point Behavioral Health in Titusville is the county's second psychiatric hospital after Circles of Care in Melbourne.

Of the county's eight hospitals, four carry a Melbourne address and three of those have emergency departments; the other four are in Palm Bay, Cocoa Beach and Titusville (CMS).

Inside the City of Melbourne, emergency medical care comes from the Melbourne Fire Department, whose stations are all licensed in advanced life support and staffed by paramedics.

Medical work dominates the department's day. In 2025 the Melbourne Fire Department responded to 18,362 incidents, an average of 50.30 requests a day, and EMS and rescue calls made up 74 percent of them; the department staffs eight fire stations (City of Melbourne fire statistics). It takes part in the Brevard County mutual aid program and the statewide emergency response agreement, and its non-emergency line is 321-608-6731, option 1, with administration at 321-608-6000 (City of Melbourne Fire Department).

Since November 1, 2022 the Melbourne Fire Department has held an ISO Class 1 rating, the first in Brevard County, which insurers use when pricing fire coverage (City of Melbourne). At the county level, Brevard County Fire Rescue lists fire suppression, advanced life support transport, technical rescue and ocean and marine rescue among its services; the department is led by Fire Chief James Stables and its headquarters is at 1040 South Florida Ave. in Rockledge, phone (321) 633-2056 (Brevard County Fire Rescue).

Melbourne's public health clinic is the state Department of Health Melbourne Clinic on East University Boulevard, offering family planning, immunizations, STI services and WIC on weekdays.

The address is 601 E. University Blvd., Melbourne, FL 32901, and the main phone is 321-726-2920 (Florida Department of Health in Brevard County).

The Teen Clinic meets only on Tuesdays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and the clinic is closed Saturday and Sunday (Florida Department of Health in Brevard County). Appointments for the Melbourne clinic and the teen clinic go through 321-637-7300, immunization questions through 321-726-2916, medical records through 321-726-2925, and Florida Kidcare through 888-540-5437 (Melbourne Clinic page). The same page lists 321-639-5813 for PATH and Space Coast Volunteers in Medicine, which is in Viera rather than Melbourne. Immunizations stop an hour before the clinic closes, so a late afternoon visit for shots on a weekday will miss the window.

Last verified: October 14, 2026, on the Florida Department of Health in Brevard County Melbourne Clinic page and the CMS hospital list.

For VA care, Melbourne veterans can use the Viera VA Clinic at 2900 Veterans Way, Viera, FL 32940, part of VA Orlando Health Care.

The Viera VA Clinic is open 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and closed on weekends, and the VA notes that hours vary by service (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs). The VA page also describes Disabled American Veterans van service, run with county veterans affairs directors, for rides for veterans and authorized caregivers to scheduled medical appointments, with schedules that vary by van (Viera VA Clinic).

The change under way is the planned replacement of Melbourne Fire Station 72, built in 1966 at Jimmy Moore Park near Wickham Road and Sarno Road, which the city says no longer meets national fire protection standards.

Station 72 covers about 10.62 square miles, and the city reports 3,059 calls for service there in 2025 with an average response time of 4 minutes and 28 seconds (City of Melbourne). The station was built for three fire personnel in about 3,200 square feet, half of it apparatus bays (Fire Station 72 project page).

The path to a new site has been slow. City Council denied a land use amendment for a new station inside Jimmy Moore Park on July 8, 2025 by a vote of 6 to 1, reviewed five possible sites on October 14, 2025, and held a community meeting on April 20, 2026 (City of Melbourne). At its July 14, 2026 meeting the Melbourne City Council approved the purchase contract for a site and a task order for design, geotechnical and wetland work ahead of bidding (City of Melbourne). The new Station 72 is planned to house two units and up to nine personnel: an advanced life support engine and a heavy rescue (City of Melbourne). The city also lists Stations 73, 75 and 76 for replacement under the same 2023 needs analysis.

In Brevard County, which includes Melbourne, private health care and social assistance employers averaged 33,411 jobs at 2,136 establishments in 2024, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

These are Brevard County totals from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics). The federal series is published by county, not by city, so it covers Melbourne together with Palm Bay, Viera and the rest of Brevard. Brevard County's 34 private hospital establishments averaged 7,587 jobs in 2024 at average annual pay of $65,317, below the $68,058 average for all private Brevard jobs that year.