This MedLibrary.org supplementary page on Royal Children's Hospital is provided directly from the open source Wikipedia as a service to our readers. Please see the note below on authorship of this content, as well as the Wikipedia usage guidelines. To search for other content from our encyclopedia supplement, please use the form below:
Related Sponsors
| Royal Children's Hospital | |
 |
|
| Royal Children's Hospital from the corner of Flemington Road and Gatehouse Street | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Place | Melbourne Victoria, (AU) |
| Organisation | |
| Care System | Public Medicare (AU) |
| Hospital Type | Specialist |
| Affiliated University | University of Melbourne, La Trobe University, and Murdoch Children's Research Institute |
| Services | |
| Emergency Dept. | Unknown |
| Beds | 250 |
| Speciality | Children's hospital |
| History | |
| Founded | 1870, 1963 present site |
| Links | |
| Website | Homepage |
| See also | Hospitals in Australia |
 |
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2008) |
The Royal Children's Hospital is a children's hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
It is the major specialist paediatric hospital for Victoria and offers a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and adolescents under 18 years. It is a major teaching hospital with links to the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute based onsite.
The hospital was established in 1870 and moved to its present site in Parkville on the corner of Flemington Road and Gatehouse Street in 1963. It overlooks the trees and lawns of Royal Park.
RCH also has two acute psychiatric inpatient facilities, called the Banksia Unit, for children up to the age of 18 years. The two locations are Dandenong and Mavis Street Footscray, Victoria.
The Good Friday Appeal is held annually to raise money for the hospital. It has been broadcast on the Seven TV network for 51 years. The goal of the Appeal is to ensure that children with life threatening illnesses can have the best care.
The 2008 appeal raised $12,482,380.
In 2005, the Victorian State Government announced plans to build a brand new 340-bed home for RCH adjacent to the current site. [1]
The winning bid of the redevelopment is lead by Babcock and Brown with architects Bates Smart and consulting engineers Norman Disney & Young. Work commenced on the site in late 2007, and is due to be completed in 2011. The current hospital will be demolished by 2014 after the transition to the new facility.
 |
This article about an Australian building or structure is a stub. You can help by expanding it. |
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 3 October 2008, at 02:37.
Wikipedia Authorship and Review
Wikipedia content provided here is not reviewed directly by MedLibrary.org. Wikipedia content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with MedLibrary.org.
Wikipedia Usage Guidelines
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "Royal Children's Hospital".
The URL for this specific entry is:
All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.