Royal Children’s Hospital’s lovable in-house television personality, Macadamia, celebrates his 10th birthday and 500th episode tomorrow. Going Nuts with Macadamia is beamed round the hospital weekly on our in-house TV channel. Hospital patients and special guests join Macadamia in the studio to talk about life in hospital and current events. It’s a one-hour interactive program, … Continued
Royal Children’s Hospital has developed Kids Health Information for Parents: it’s an on-line resource, developed by clinicians at RCH for everyone seeking information about childhood ailments. St Kilda coach Grant Thomas recently joined staff at the hospital to launch the web-site: as the father of eight he has experienced the worry of having a sick … Continued
Critically ill children in the hospital’s Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) will benefit from the Islamic Community Auxiliary to the Royal Children’s Hospital (ICARCH) first Good Friday Appeal donation. At its first function as an Auxiliary last year ICARCH raised $170,000 for the RCH Good Friday Appeal. In keeping with the aims of the Appeal, … Continued
Australian Athlete, Lauren Hewitt recently launched the new Royal Children’s Hospital Child Safety Handbook to prevent accidental injuries to children aged 6-12. This handbook was launched to the public in December. In 2001, there were 2,499 hospital admissions and 9,432 Emergency Department visits in Victoria from children aged 10-12. “The Royal Children’s Hospital Child Safety … Continued
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Plastic surgeons, physiotherapists and occupational therapists at Royal Children’s Hospital have produced a booklet ‘Understanding Brachial Plexus Palsy’ to inform and support parents, general practitioners and obstetricians dealing with this unpredictable childbirth injury. The brachial plexus is the large network of nerves extending from the neck into the arm. The brachial plexus can be injured … Continued
Buying a cup of coffee can assist ill children. By charging hotel patrons a small fee for coffee the Olympic Hotel staff and patrons have raised $16,225 for the oncology department at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. A cheque to the ‘My Room’ Committee was recently presented by, Managing Director of Olympic Hotel in … Continued
Parents can learn how to manage their children’s pain more effectively with a new booklet, ‘Pain, Pain, Go Away: Helping Children with Pain’. The booklet was launched by the Children’s Pain Management Service at the Royal Children’s Hospital on Thursday 9 October. “In October we’re celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the Children’s Pain Management … Continued
A commemorative plaque has been placed at the site occupied by the Royal Children’s Hospital from 1876 until it moved to its current site in 1963. Dame Elisabeth Mudoch D.B.E. and Mr Gordon Moffat former Chairman of Trust, the company which currently owns and occupies the site on the corner of Pelham and Rathdowne Streets … Continued
The Royal Children’s Hospital has launched a new service for pregnant women called Mothersafe. Mothersafe is a clinical teratology service provided by the Paediatric Clinical Pharmacology Research Unit and is based on the model developed by the Motherisk Program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada and Sydney’s Royal Hospital for Women Mothersafe … Continued
