The Charity
About the Royal Children's Hospital
The Royal Children's Hospital is a specialist paediatric hospital and provides a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and adolescents. The hospital is the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria, and also cares for children from Tasmania and southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
As the major paediatric hospital in Victoria, the Royal Children's Hospital provides clinical, academic and advocacy services for children and young people throughout the state. It is internationally recognised as a leading centre for research and education.
In its role as a leading paediatric teaching centre, the hospital has affiliations with the University of Melbourne and Latrobe University and links with other universities in post graduate studies.
The Royal Children's Hospital has a strong commitment to research. The Murdoch Children's Research Institute is based at the Royal Children's Hospital providing a bench to bedside process within our site. Patients are referred to the Royal Children's Hospital from all over Australia and the Asia-Pacific rim countries.
The hospital was established in 1870 and has been located on its present site at Parkville in Melbourne, Australia since 1963. It has 250 beds, and treats approximately 32,000 in-patients each year. A total of 280,000 children are treated by the hospital annually.
Some facts about The Royal Children's Hospital
- RCH clinicians and scientists first discovered that rotavirus is the cause of gastroenteritis.
- RCH is the Australian National Centre for cardiac transplantation.
- RCH is the leading centre for bone marrow and cord blood transplantation.
- Australia's first gait laboratory for children is located at RCH.
- World-wide changes in measles immunisation in children were initiated at RCH.
- RCH leads Australian studies into childhood allergy.
- World experts in paediatric anaesthetics work at RCH.
- RCH provides Australia's most comprehensive care program for neonates.
- RCH is internationally recognised for work on ethical and legal aspects of newborn care, especially the use of high technology.
- RCH developed a video EEG monitoring system, which is now used internationally and has been integrated with the best epilepsy surgical program in Australia.
- RCH is conducting a landmark longitudinal study of childhood asthma into adulthood.
About RCH Foundation
The Royal children's Hospital Foundation was established in 1989 for the purpose of raising funds and providing resources for The Royal Children's Hospital in addition to the money raised by the Good Friday appeal which has been a prominent event in the Victorian calendar since 1931.Our Aim
To generate funds to support medical excellence at The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne.Our Objective
To Fund:- state-of-the-art medical and related equipment
- ongoing paediatric research programs at The Royal Children's Hospital
- scholarships for medical and allied health professionals at The Royal Children's Hospital
- capital projects at The Royal Children's Hospital
