Royal Children's Hospital

Royal Children's Hospital
Geography
Location	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia[1]
Coordinates	37°47′42″S 144°56′59″E / 37.79500°S 144.94972°E / -37.79500; 144.94972
Organisation
Care system	Medicare
Type	Specialist
Affiliated university	University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Services
Beds	340[2]
Speciality	Children's hospital
Helipads
Helipad	(ICAO: YRHO)
Number Length Surface ft m 1 aluminium 2 aluminium 3 aluminium
History
Opened	1870 (founding) 2011 (present site)
Links
Website	www.rch.org.au

The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH), colloquially referred to as the Royal Children's, is a major children's hospital in Parkville, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Regarded as one of the great Children's hospitals globally, the hospital and its facilities are internationally recognised as a “leading centre for paediatrics”.^[3] The hospital serves the entire states of Victoria, and Tasmania, as well as southern New South Wales and parts of South Australia. Patients from countries with a Reciprocal Health Agreement with Australia may be treated at the hospital, with seldom cases of overseas children being treated at the hospital.

As a major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria, the Royal Children's Hospital provides a full range of clinical services, tertiary care, as well as health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.^[4]

The hospital is the designated statewide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.

Its campus partners are the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, which are based onsite at the hospital.

The hospital is surrounded by the parkland of Royal Park, with views of trees and much natural light.