Lady Cilento 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 (LCCH) is categorised as a level six service, under the Clinical Services Capability Framework (CSCF) for Public and Licensed Private Health Facilities v3.2, 2014.[1] 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.[2]
As part of its model of service delivery, the hospital works in partnership with other hospital 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.[3]
Education and research
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.
The LCCH also plays a significant role in medical research, undertaking research programs with affiliated universities including The University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology.
The LCCH is co-located with the $134 million Centre for Children's Health Research,[4] officially opened on 27 November 2015.[5]
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.
In the facility, "LCCH doctors, nurses, surgeons and allied health professionals will work side by side with researchers from the centre’s university and academic partners – Queensland University of Technology, The University of Queensland and the Translational Research Institute – to ensure medical and scientific breakthroughs transfer quickly to improved health for children".[6]
Hospital name
During the early stages of the hospital project, the now Lady CiIlento Children's Hospital was known as the Queensland Children's Hospital.
On 15 December 2013, the then Queensland Premier Campbell Newman announced that the hospital would be named after the renowned Queensland clinican, Lady Phyllis Cilento.[7]
Designed for health and healing
The Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital provided an opportunity for architects Conrad Gargett Lyons to create a building designed specifically with the needs of children and young people in mind.
Children, young people and their families were consulted during early planning to help develop a comfortable and supportive environment that is not only therapeutic and practical, but also fun and engaging.
The design also reflects growing evidence of the importance of nature and environment in the healing process. Based on the concept of a ‘living tree’, the building features a network of trunks and branches running throughout, leading to several outdoor gardens, terraces, and viewing platforms that connect the inside with the outside and fill the hospital with as much natural light as possible.
The building design has received a number of awards including the 2015 Queensland State Architecture Awards the F.D.G Stanley Award for Public Architecture and the Karl Langer Award for Urban Design from the Australian Institute of Architects.[8]
At the 2015 Design and Health International Academy Awards,[9] the Hospital design was awarded as the overall winner for Salutogenic Design Project for Healthcare Environment. In addition it was awarded Highly Commended for International Health Project over 40,000m2. Interior Design Project, Use of Art in Public and Private Spaces.
See also
- List of hospitals in Queensland
- List of hospitals in Australia
- List of children's hospitals
- Healthcare in Australia
References
- ↑ "Clinical Services Capability Framework (CSCF) for Public and Licensed Private Health Facilities v3.2, 2014".
- ↑ "Children's Health Queensland Annual Report 2014-15" (PDF).
- ↑ "Children's Health Queensland Facebook page".
- ↑ "Centre for Children's Health Research".
- ↑ "Queensland’s $134 million children’s health research centre launched".
- ↑ "Queensland’s $134 million children’s health research centre launched".
- ↑ Wardill, Steven (16 December 2013). "Queensland Children's Hospital to be named in honour of Lady Phyllis Cilento". Courier-Mail. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
- ↑ "2015 Queensland State Architecture Awards". Australian Institute of Architects. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ↑ "2015 Design & Health International Academy Awards Winners". Retrieved 10 August 2015.
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