Events
Events - The new Royal Children's Hospital project
Her Majesty The Queen officially opens new Royal Children’s Hospital (26 Oct 2011) |
| Her Majesty The Queen officially opened the new Royal Children's Hospital in Parkville, almost 50 years after opening the existing hospital facility in 1963. Premier Ted Baillieu said welcoming The Queen to open the new $1 billion hospital was a wonderful honour and a privilege for all Victorians. "The opening of this hospital by The Queen was a very proud moment for the Royal Children's Hospital, the City of Melbourne and all Victorians," Mr Baillieu said. "This is one of the most significant days in the 140-year history of this great facility and reflects the high regard in which the hospital is held." Prior to the opening, The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh met staff members and patients as part of a guided tour through the hospital. |
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Sneak peek inside the new RCH (29 July 2011) |
| The Minister for Health and representatives from several media outlets took a tour of the new hospital in late July. The tour provided an opportunity for a sneak peek inside the facility, before final touches are made to the site in advance of its opening in November. The tour started in Main Street and included the emergency area on lower ground, the peri-operative area on level 3, intensive care, the inpatient unit and specialist clinics (outpatients). Of particular interest was the enclosure being built to house Meerkats, and also the beautiful graphics which have been devised to make way-finding easy for patients and their families. Each level of the hospital has a theme inspired by Australian flora and fauna. These include underground, beach, earth, forest, tree tops, mountain tops and sky. An image of these graphics can be seen below. More can be seen in our photo gallery. |
Last crane comes down (1 August 2010) |
| The last of the cranes used in the construction of the new world-class Royal Children’s Hospital was dismantled on Sunday 1 August, marking the next stage of the development. The nine massive cranes on the construction site were all named after young patients treated at the existing Royal Children’s Hospital. The dismantling of the last remaining crane named Rosie marks an important milestone in the construction of the new state-of-the-art hospital, with the structure of the hospital now complete. Construction work will now move onto fitting out the interior of the hospital including flooring and walls, infrastructure such as air conditioning and sprinkler systems and the latest medical equipment. The idea to name cranes after patients came from the crane drivers and has since become a tradition on the construction site. The cranes were named Kyle and Cameron, Alexander, George, Matthew, Jordyn, Tyler, Rosie, Tammy and Moutaz, with many of the children to be patients in the new hospital. |
