Queensland Children's Hospital

Lady Cilento Children's Hospital
Lady Cilento Children's Hospital
Geography
Location	South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Organisation
Care system	Public Medicare (AU)
Hospital type	Specialist
Services
Beds	359
Speciality	Paediatrics
History
Founded	29 November 2014
Links
Website	http://www.childrens.health.qld.gov.au
Lists	Hospitals in Australia

The Lady Cilento Children's Hospital is a new major children's hospital in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Opened on 29 November 2014, it is the single specialist paediatric hospital for Queensland, caring for the sickest and most critically injured children from across the state.

As well as emergency, critical care and general paediatric services, the hospital also delivers a growing number of statewide paediatric speciality services, including rehabilitation medicine, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, indigenous ear health, gastroenterology, oncology and haemophilia.

The hospital combined the former Royal Children's Hospital, Herston and the Mater Children's Hospital together into one new facility at an estimated construction cost of A$1.2 billion. The 12-level facility represents the largest capital investment in children's health services in Queensland's history.

The Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital is categorised as a level six service, under the Clinical Services Capability Framework for Public and Licensed Private Health Facilities v3.2, 2014. This means 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 for the state’s sickest and most seriously injured children.

As part of its model of service delivery, the hospital works in partnership with other hospitals across Queensland to coordinate, when safe and appropriate to do so, the provision of care as close to home as possible for a child and their family.

Through outreach clinics, and, increasingly, the use of telemedicine, the hospital is improving access to quality care for all children and young people, regardless of where they live.

The hospital employs more than 2,500 people from a range of disciplines; and in its first year admitted almost 38,000 inpatients, saw 63, 634 emergency presentations, performed 14,113 operations and provide 188,765 outpatient appointments.

The Lady Cilento Children's Hospital is world-renowned as a centre for teaching and research, providing undergraduate-, postgraduate- and practitioner-level training in paediatrics. It also plays a significant role in medical research, undertaking research programs with affiliated universities including The University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology. It is co-located with the $134 million Centre for Children's Health Research, officially opened on 27 November 2015.

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.