[2] It is the largest provider of general and speciality health care for Melbourne's Mornington Peninsula, and is the region's chief provider of acute secondary and tertiary medical and surgical services.

[1][2] The hospital has specialisations in mental health, maternity (midwifery) and pediatrics.

[1][2] It also has one of the busiest emergency departments in Victoria with 49 beds and around 63,000 presentations a year.

[2][3] It is one of two hospitals in the Peninsula Health network, the second being Rosebud Hospital, which together support the network's smaller specialist campuses for community health, dentistry, physical and psychiatric rehabilitation, aged (elderly) and palliative care in Frankston, Hastings, Mornington, Mount Eliza and Rosebud.

[2] Frankston Hospital provides general and speciality health care services in the following areas: