Purpose built for kids and their families
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For the kids:
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- A range of interactive playgrounds.
- A 2-storey coral reef aquarium.
- Scienceworks displays.
- A partnership with Melbourne Zoo.
- A 'bean-bag theatre', showing the latest movies.
- A bigger and better Starlight Room.
- A state-of-the-art entertainment system will be included at each patient bed.
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In the rooms:
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- An emphasis on family-centred care.
- Eighty five percent of all rooms in the new RCH will be single bed rooms, providing privacy for patients and their families without compromising staff visibility.
- Each patient room will include three zones - clinical, patient and parent. The patient zone will be a ‘safe haven’ for sick kids and will include a state-of-the-art entertainment system. Rooms will be designed to feel more like home, there will be a place to put personal belongings and private ensuites too. The parent zone will include a window seat, which will pull-out into a bed, storage and internet access. Kids and parents will also have control over lighting. Things like medical equipment and the write-up bay will be located within the clinical zone.
- Each ward will include two specially designed treatment rooms, to enable treatment to occur outside the patient’s bedroom. This will assist kids to identify their bedrooms as a ‘safe haven’.
- Play areas in each ward.
- Child-friendly scale for windows, furniture and handrails. Reception desks will include low-rise sections to allow kids to see what’s going on.
- Waiting areas will include interactive distractions, and medical equipment will be disguised with large scale themes and colour wherever possible.
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Around the hospital:
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- Retreat, gathering areas and outdoor balconies on each ward will place an emphasis on play and will help kids and their families form social connections.
- Breast-feeding and baby change rooms.
- A bigger and better Family Resource Centre to support the families of sick children with private cubicles, bathroom facilities, laundry, lounge, meals area, kitchen, personal care suite and an external courtyard.
- The new RCH will include a small supermarket and a gymnasium as well as a range of healthy food options for families, staff and visitors.
- A multi-faith centre and two child care centres.
- A 90 room 3.5-star hotel, providing an option for extended families to stay within close distance to a sick child.
- Emergency overnight accommodation will be provided and Ronald McDonald House will continue to provide a home-away-from-home for seriously sick kids and their families.
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And for outpatients:
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- Outpatient services and consulting clinics will be easy for families to find at the new RCH.
- Interactive play areas will help keep patients and siblings occupied.
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