Royal Children's Hospital
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Hospital Quick Facts
- Hospital Name
- Royal Children's Hospital
- City
- Parkville
- Country
- Australia
- Address
- Royal Children's Hospital,Flemington Road, Parkville Vic. 3052, Australia
- Languages
- English, Armenian
- Website
- http://www.rch.org.au/rch/index.cfm?doc_id=1495
- Phone
- (03) 9345 6180
About Royal Childrens Hospital
The Royal Children's Hospital is a specialist paediatric hospital and provides a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and adolescents. The hospital is the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria, and also cares for children from Tasmania and southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
As the major paediatric hospital in Victoria, the Royal Children's Hospital provides clinical, academic and advocacy services for children and young people throughout the state. It is internationally recognised as a leading centre for research and education.
In its role as a leading paediatric teaching centre, the hospital has affiliations with the University of Melbourne and LaTrobe University and links with other universities in post graduate studies.
The Royal Children's Hospital has a strong commitment to research. The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute is based at the Royal Children's Hospital providing a bench to bedside process within our site.
Patients are referred to the Royal Children's Hospital from all over Australia and the Asia-Pacific rim countries.
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