[3] The hospital is named after mental health reformer Dr Thomas Embling, who was appointed as Yarra Bend Asylum's first Resident Medical Officer.

[4] Patients are usually admitted from the criminal justice system, either via prison transfer or from a court order for psychiatric treatment.

On 22 February 2006, then Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott was hit in the face by a patient while visiting the hospital.

[12] The same patient was again allowed unescorted day leave in February 2015 and failed to return.

[14] In May 2014, a patient who was found not guilty due to mental impairment for murder was allowed an unsupervised leave for a day did not return on time.