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 Childrens 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. In 2006/2007 it treated approximately 35,000 in-patients, 190,000 children attended outpatient appointments and 60,000 children presented at our emergency department.
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Languages:English,Armenian
Address:Royal Children's Hospital,Flemington Road, Parkville Vic. 3052, Australia
City:Parkville
Country:Australia
Contact Number:(03) 9345 6180
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Website:http://www.rch.org.au/rch/index.cfm?doc_id=1495
RPH's world-leading medical contributions include:
Gastroenterology
Cardiology
Gynaecology
Neurology
Otolaryngology (ENT)
Haematology
Dentistry
Ophthalmology
Orthopaedics