Queensland Children's Hospital

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Queensland Children's Hospital
Queensland Health
Main entrance of the Queensland Children's Hospital
Geography
Location	South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Coordinates	27°29′02″S 153°01′35″E / 27.483961725459036°S 153.02635997781977°E / -27.483961725459036; 153.02635997781977
Organisation
Care system	Public (Medicare)
Type	Specialist
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	359 overnight inpatient beds
Speciality	Paediatrics
Helipad	(ICAO: YXQC)
History
Opened	29 November 2014; 9 years ago (2014-11-29)
Links
Website	childrens.health.qld.gov.au/qch
Lists	Hospitals in Australia

The Queensland Children's Hospital (QCH) is a public children's hospital on Stanley Street in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. QCH is the primary facility of Children's Health Queensland, the state-wide Hospital and Health Service that provides specialist paediatric services, and the only hospital completely dedicated to paediatrics in Queensland. QCH has an emergency department, intensive and critical care unit, as well as specialist general medical and surgical services. Children's Health Queensland also provides clinicians and support staff to other hospitals, gives facilities access to paediatric specialists via telehealth, and local programs such as Child and Youth Mental Health Services (CYMHS).^[1]

The Queensland Children's Hospital is categorised as a level six service under the Clinical Services Capability Framework 2014.^[2] 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.^[3]

The hospital employs more than 2,500 staff from a range of disciplines. In the first year of operations, QCH admitted almost 38,000 patients, saw 63,634 emergency presentations, performed 14,113 operations and provided 188,765 specialist outpatient appointments.^[4]