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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a modern diagnostic method to look inside the body. It is believed to be safe for unborn babies. MRI is useful for detecting abnormalities of the brain, spinal cord, blood vessels, joints and other internal organs.

Mallee Ward (formerly known as Boylan Ward) is the only designated psychiatric inpatient facility for children and adolescents in South Australia, and provides specialised care and support for children and adolescents with severe mental health problems.

Mallee Ward is a 12-bed inpatient unit located at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. The ward provides a therapeutic environment in which children and young people up to the age of 18 years can be supported to work towards better mental health.

Our new Child and Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Unit Redevelopment is now complete, with young people moving into the new space from Monday, 29 March, 2021

The Maternal Fetal Medicine Service (MFMS) provides multi-disciplinary care, with medical and midwifery experts providing diagnosis, surveillance, management and care for women whose pregnancies are complicated by maternal and/or fetal conditions.

Women and children staying at the WCH are served a nutritionally balanced breakfast, lunch and dinner. Visitors are well catered for by our eateries (inlcuding Rainbows and Vics cafes), and local retail venues and stores.

The Media and Communications team at the Women's and Children's Health Network promotes the Women's and Children's Hospital and the broader Health Network.

The Medical Day Unit (MDU) cares for children with a variety of medical conditions, and is co-located with the Renal Dialysis Unit (RDU).

The Department of Critical Care Medicine is a self-contained facility which provides complex multi-system life support for infants, children, and adolescents, as well as for obstetric women.

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SAMI provides a range of imaging services for children at the WCH. SAMI's staff include nurses, radiologists, radiographers, sonographers, nuclear medicine physicians, nuclear medicine technologists, physicists and administrative staff.

The ward cares for children aged from 12 months to 12 years with a variety of medical conditions including infectious illnesses represented by the following Medical Clinics: General Medicine; Dermatology; Neurology; Immunology; Rheumatology.

If you do not have a Medicare card, you will be required to pay for all hospital services received at the Women's and Children's Hospital. This includes, but is not limited to, outpatient, emergency department and admitted care.

The Women's and Children's Health Network commits to ensuring that medicines are safely prescribed and used, and that consumers and carers are informed about medicines and their risks.

The Clinic provides a multidisciplinary service caring for children and adults who are born with problems caused by missing enzymes affecting their metabolism, and also children and adults whose doctors suspect they might have a problem.

The MRU provides a centralised single point of contact for a range of services to support hospital avoidance and early supported discharge, and is the only entry point for patients requiring referral to Health Care at Home and Country Home Link.

This Department of Clinical Haematology/Oncology cares for children who require investigation and treatment of haematological disorders, cancer including brain tumours, and diseases requiring bone marrow transplantation.

This Department of Clinical Haematology/Oncology cares for children who require investigation and treatment of haematological disorders, cancer including brain tumours, and diseases requiring bone marrow transplantation.

The Michael Rice Centre Ward cares for children from SA and NT who have blood disorders and cancer. The ward is a centre for diagnosis, chemotherapy, treatment of infections and low blood counts, transplants, and other disease-related therapies.

Sometimes known as 'Caseload Midwifery', MGP enables women to be cared for by the same midwife (primary midwife) supported by a small group of midwives throughout their pregnancy, during childbirth and in the early weeks at home with a new baby.

There are a number of ways to obtain and order medicines as an inpatient or outpatient of the WCH. You will not be charged for medicines supplied when you or your child has been admitted as an inpatient.

The Movement Disorder Service as part of Paediatric Rehabilitation provides a range of therapies to help children and young people with movement disorders.

Having a multiple birth can be a joyful and exciting time. It can also be a time of mixed emotions and expectations. Services for multiple birth families are provided by the Multiple Birth Coordinator.

WCH music therapists work with babies, children, young people and their families alongside their health journey to support emotional health and wellbeing, and improve coping with stress related to hospitalisation.