Celebrating our nurses
Today is International Nurses Day – we’re celebrating our wonderful nurses and taking a look at the diversity of our nursing team at The Royal Children’s Hospital.
RCH News
Surgeon’s visit to literally put smiles on kids’ faces
RCH Plastic Surgeon Dr David Chong heads to Peru with Operation Smile to perform life-changing reconstructive surgery on young people and children born with facial deformities.
World-class medical care for kids only a a video link away
The Royal Children’s Hospital’s Telehealth program improves communication between multiple clinicians and saves families time and money by reducing the need to travel long distances for medical appointments.
Psychs on bikes to highlight mental health issues
The Royal Children’s Hospital will be represented on a 5,000 km motorcycle road trip from Perth to Melbourne to raise awareness of mental health issues in rural and remote Australia.
Celebrating 500 epilepsy surgery patients
Today we celebrated a remarkable milestone – the 500th patient to benefit from epilepsy surgery at the RCH.
National Youth Week – ChIPS
There are many ways in which the RCH celebrates and supports young people, and one of those is The Chronic Illness Peer Support (ChIPS) Program.
Our amazing boy Jakob
Jakob is our amazing little boy, who happens to have an undiagnosed genetic disorder. Read more in this blog written by Jakob’s mum, Dani.
Some fun facts on our little creatures
At The Royal Children’s Hospital we are fortunate to be home to some special meerkats and over 50 species of fish. Here are some fun facts on our little creatures.
RCH signs historic MOU for cultural awareness
The RCH has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with refugee and migrant support agency AMES.
Supporting non-English speaking families
The RCH Interpreter Services Department team provide an all hours service to patients and families of non-English speaking backgrounds.