Queensland Children's Hospital
Specialist paediatric health service in Brisbane, Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Queensland Children's Hospital (QCH) is a public children's hospital on Stanley Street in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. QCH is the primary facility of Children's Health Queensland. QCH has an emergency department, intensive and critical care unit, as well as specialist general medical and surgical services.[1]
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| Queensland Children's Hospital | |
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| Queensland Health | |
 Main entrance of the Queensland Children's Hospital | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27.483961725459036°S 153.02635997781977°E |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public (Medicare) |
| Type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 359 overnight inpatient beds |
| Speciality | Paediatrics |
| Helipad | (ICAO: YXQC) |
| History | |
| Opened | 29 November 2014 |
| Links | |
| Website | childrens |
| Lists | Hospitals in Australia |
The Queensland Children's Hospital is categorised as a level six service under the Clinical Services Capability Framework 2014,[2] meaning it is responsible for providing general paediatric health services to children and young people in the greater Brisbane metropolitan area, as well as tertiary-level care.[3]
The hospital employs more than 2,500 staff from a range of disciplines. In the first year of operations, QCH admitted almost 38,000 patients, saw 63,634 emergency presentations, performed 14,113 operations and provided 188,765 specialist outpatient appointments.[4]
QCH was opened as the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital on 29 November 2014. The concept of a single specialist paediatric hospital for Brisbane was a key recommendation from a task force commissioned to examine Queensland paediatric cardiac services in 2006.[5] The Queensland Government assembled the task force in light of the Mellis Review, which found the model of paediatric care at the time was fragmented and unsustainable. It recommended that all services should be consolidated into a single children’s hospital.[6] QCH combined the former Royal Children's Hospital, Mater Children's Hospital, and paediatric cardiac services at The Prince Charles Hospital[7] into one new facility at an estimated construction cost of A$1.2 billion. The 12-level facility is the largest children's health service in Queensland.
Hospital name
During the early stages of the project, the hospital was known as the Queensland Children's Hospital. On 15 December 2013, the then Queensland Premier Campbell Newman announced that the hospital would be named after controversial Queensland clinician Lady Phyllis Cilento.[8][9]
On 21 September 2018, health minister Steven Miles announced that the hospital would revert to its original name of Queensland Children's Hospital, after staff petitioned the Queensland government to change the name to a more "conventional" one, which the hospital's foundation said would secure more money from overseas donors.[10] Miles claimed that an online poll showed strong support for the name change, but it was later revealed that many votes for the name change came from a small number of government IP addresses, suggesting there might have been an attempt by the government to rig the vote.[11] Miles was referred to the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) in relation to the poll.[12] On 13 December 2018 workers began removing the words Lady Cilento from the sign on the building.
The centre is known for their role in medical research, undertaking research programs with universities such as The University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology. It is co-located with the Centre for Children's Health Research,[13] officially opened on 27 November 2015.[14]
The nine-level centre houses wet and dry laboratories, pathology services, a gait laboratory, a nutrition laboratory, and the Queensland Children's Tumour Bank (funded by the Children's Hospital Foundation) which provides a tissue repository for national and international cancer research.[15]
The Queensland Children's Hospital was designed by architects Conrad Gargett Lyons. Based on the concept of a ‘living tree’, the building was designed as a network of trunks and branches running throughout, outdoor gardens, and terraces that fill the hospital with as much natural light.[16]
The building design has received a number of awards including the 2015 Queensland State Architecture Awards the F.D.G Stanley Award for Public Architecture and the Karl Langer Award for Urban Design from the Australian Institute of Architects.[17]
At the 2015 Design and Health International Academy Awards,[18] the Hospital design was awarded as the overall winner for Salutogenic Design Project for Healthcare Environment. In addition, it was awarded Highly Commended for International Health Project over 40,000m2.
The hospital provides educational programs to students from prep to year 12 for inpatients, outpatients and family members of hospitalised patients in a number of settings and locations across the hospital community.[19]
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