{"id":1417,"date":"2011-11-30T06:06:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T19:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:56:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:56:23","slug":"all-patients-have-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/all-patients-have-moved\/","title":{"rendered":"All patients have moved"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1418\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2011\/11\/30\/all-patients-have-moved\/2ndlastpt_aa_200px\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1418\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1418\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2011\/11\/2ndlastpt_AA_200px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Intensive care patient Emily, 6, makes the move from the old to the new Royal Children&#039;s Hospital. Emily made a special stop along the way, to visit the fish in the aquarium in Main Street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>At 3pm the final inpatient moved from the old hospital into the new Royal Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It took just under\u00a0eight hours to move 143 inpatients, with hundreds of staff involved in making the move a great success.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Right on the target time of 7am, patients started their move journey via the purpose-built passageways.<\/p>\n<p>The first patient was Christian,\u00a0an\u00a011-year old cancer patient, who moved into the new Kookaburra (Cancer) Ward.<\/p>\n<p>The final patient to move was five-week old Connor<span style=\"font-size: x-small;color: #000000;font-family: Tahoma\">, <\/span>an intensive care patient. Staff formed a guard of honour in Main Street in the new hospital to celebrate this special milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Every patient to move to the new hospital was thrilled to be greeted by a new RCH teddy bear, donated by Build-A-Bear. Last week, Build-A-Bear faciliated bear-making workshops with\u00a0Victorian primary and secondary-school students to\u00a0create the bears\u00a0for\u00a0Patient Move Day.\u00a0Before placing the heart in each bear,\u00a0the bear builders\u00a0made a wish for hospital patients and a successful move.<\/p>\n<p>All other hospital facilities, including Specialist Clinics, will gradually open from tomorrow, Thursday 1 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took just under eight hours to move 143 inpatients from the old to the new Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}