Bandaged Bear

This includes around 32,000 inpatient admissions, 57,000 emergency department presentations and more than 886,000 outpatient visits. The hospital is home to the NSWPaediatric Burns Unit, thePaediatric Liver Transplant Unit, theNational Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, theNSW Newborn Screening ServiceandNational Poisons Information... Centre, as well as the firstPaediatric Tumour Bankin the southern hemisphere. End-of-life and respite care for seriously ill children is provided byBear Cottage, the only children's hospice in NSW. Research is one of the key ways in which the hospital provides the highest standard of care to sick children and their families. Kids Research leads research into childhood diseases, resulting in significant advances in the treatment of cancer, obesity, kidney, heart and respiratory illnesses, diabetes and muscular dystrophy. Funded by the NSW Government, The Children's Hospital at Westmead provides significant extra services thanks to the generosity of individual and corporate donors. The Sydney Children's Hospitals Foundation is a registered Health Promotion Charity with Deductible Gift Recipient status (Item 1). EventsRead More