Monash Children's Hospital is a major

children's hospital A children's hospital is a hospital that offers its services exclusively to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In certain special cases, they may also treat adults. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th ...

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, Australia. Monash Children's Hospital is part of Monash Health, Victoria's largest healthcare service and one of only four accredited Academic Health Science Centres in Australia. The hospital includes Victoria's largest Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and provides a full range of specialist services including surgical care, oncology, and rehabilitation services. It is home to Victoria's only dedicated children's

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science, is a state-wide referral service for thalassemia, and is a provider of

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services in partnership with

Royal Women's Hospital The Royal Women's Hospital, located in the Melbourne suburb of Parkville, is Australia's oldest specialist women's hospital. It offers a full range of services in maternity, gynaecology, neonatal care, women's cancers and women's health. It als ...

and

Mercy Hospital for Women, Melbourne :''See Mercy Hospital for other medical facilities with the Mercy name.'' Mercy Hospital for Women, is based in Heidelberg adjacent to the Austin Hospital. The hospital offers obstetric, gynaecological and neonatal services and has one of only f ...

. Its services are linked to an adult service, allowing the hospital to provide transition-of-care as children grow older and move to an adult service.

New Monash Children's Hospital

After providing services from within adult hospitals for many years, in 2017 the purpose-built Monash Children's Hospital was opened in

Clayton, Victoria Clayton is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District,Monash Medical Centre Monash Medical Centre (MMC) is a teaching hospital in Melbourne, Australia. It provides specialist tertiary-level healthcare to the Melbourne's south-east. Monash Medical Centre is part of Monash Health, the largest public health service in Vic ...

, and includes the Monash Children's Hospital School. The New Monash Children's Hospital service profile includes: * 96 In-patient acute beds * 10 Paediatric Intensive care beds * 64 Monash Newborn cots * 20 Early in Life Mental Health Service beds * 8 Neuro Developmental Psychiatry beds * 20 Same-day beds * 12 Oncology same-day beds – 12 * 3 Operating theatres – plus a dedicated Endoscopy Suite * Sleep and Neurodiagnostic studies beds * Imaging Modalities – 3 modalities (MRI, Ultrasound and X-Ray) * Outpatient consulting rooms and Allied Health Therapy spaces * Dedicated Central Sterilising Services Department (CSSD) * A

Starlight Children's Foundation Starlight Children's Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1982. Starlight's programs include providing hospital wear, games, and deliveries to hospitalized children. The programs are provided directly to children through Starlight's ne ...

Room * A Ronald McDonald House Chairities Family Room * A

Hoyts The Hoyts Group of companies in Australia and New Zealand includes Hoyts Cinemas and Val Morgan. Hoyts operates more than 450 cinema screens and 55,000 seats, making it Australia's second largest movie exhibitor after Event Hospita ...

beanbag cinema for patients * A Radio Lollipop studio

References

External links

Official website
{{Hospitals in Victoria Organisations based in Australia with royal patronage Children's hospitals in Australia Teaching hospitals in Australia Hospitals in Melbourne 1896 establishments in Australia Hospitals established in 1896 Buildings and structures in the City of Monash