A-Z Services

The PED Emergency Extended Care Unit is an 11-bed ward attached to the Paediatric Emergency Department. Children are admitted from Emergency for a short period of observation and treatment while waiting further consultation or a bed in another ward.

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.

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.

The Paediatric Chronic Pain Service provides coordinated outpatient and community management of children and young people with chronic pain.

The Paediatric Clinical Resources page provides information for healthcare professionals.

Our newly upgraded Extended Emergency Care Unit (EECU) is now ready to welcome patients and their families.

The Paediatric Forensic Medical Service (PFMS) is a new WCHN service formed by the specialist paediatricians previously working within Child Protection Services, and provides expert forensic medical services to children and young people (0-18 years).

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.

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.

The Division of Paediatric Medicine is the largest Women's and Children's Hospital division, and aims to provide high quality health care for children and young people in an environment which meets their needs and the needs of their families.

Our mission is to provide excellent service to children and families facing life-limiting illness through partnership with families, interdisciplinary team work, and offering holistic care.

The Paediatric Rehabilitation Department is provides intensive rehabilitation for children/adolescents with an acquired (and often catastrophic) reduction in function due to trauma, illness or medical procedures.

The Paediatric Sedation Service provides comprehensive, coordinated, family-centred care that enables children to receive non-surgical medical investigations and treatment safely and comfortably.

The WCH Department of Paediatric Surgery is the main referral centre for complex paediatric surgical conditions and provides a service in South Australia which covers the Northern Territory and some regional centres in Victoria and New South Wales.

Support After Fetal Diagnosis of Abnormality (SAFDA), based at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, offers counselling and resources for families before and after termination of pregnancy due to fetal abnormalities.

Our mission is to provide excellent service to children and families facing life-limiting illness through partnership with families, interdisciplinary team work, and offering holistic care.

If you have an enquiry about your account, please contact the department that has issued the account.

The Hospital Pharmacy is on the ground floor in the Kermode Street Foyer. The Pharmacy can dispense prescriptions for WCH patients.

The Pharmacy Department at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital (WCH) provides medication services to inpatients and outpatients. We also provide advice on the use of medication to other pharmacists, clinicians and health professionals.

As part of SA Pharmacy, the WCH Pharmacy Department is committed to supporting clinical and practice based research that promotes effective use of medicines, whilst reducing the risks associated with medicines use.

The Physiotherapy service provides high level physiotherapy assessment, advice and management for patients of the Women's and Children's Health Network.

Physiotherapists can help women cope with physical changes during their pregnancy and up to three months after the birth of their baby. Advice is provided on back care, pelvic floor exercise, relaxation, skills for labour and postnatal rehabilitation.

The Plastic Surgery Unit helps children with elective and emergency issues, including congenital hand problems, breast surgery, ear reconstruction, vascular malformations, hand and facial trauma, reconstructive surgery, skin lesions and scar management.

The Postnatal Midwifery Home Visiting Service is offered to women who live within a set boundary from the WCH, when they leave the hospital after their baby is born.

The WCH Postnatal Unit has single and shared rooms for women and their babies. The unit is staffed by midwives who will support you with feeding and caring for your new baby and aid your recovery after birth.

The following pages have a number of videos relating to care after the birth of a new baby. The videos are available in English, Arabic, Dari, Simplified Chinese and Vietnamese.

The Women's and Children's Hospital recommends the following web sites for comprehensive information about conception, pregnancy, birth and related health issues.

In Australia, approximately 3000 families each year experience their baby being born before 32 weeks into the pregnancy, and requiring admission to Neonatal Intensive or Special Care nurseries.

We use the word "transition" to describe the process of planning and moving on from the WCH to an adult health care team. Transition is a gradual process and your health team may start discussing this with you at around 14 to 16 years of age.

One of the important decisions you make when coming into hospital is to decide whether you would like to be treated as a private or public patient.