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Monash Children’s Hospital is a major paediatric hospital in Melbourne, Australia.

Monash Children’s Hospital has a tertiary site based at Monash Medical Centre Clayton, and also has wards contained within Dandenong Hospital and Casey Hospital. The hospital is part of Southern Health, Victoria’s largest public health service. Monash Children’s Hospital is Australia’s third-largest paediatric health service by volume of patients treated.

Facilities and services
Monash Children’s Hospital’s three sites have a total of 240 paediatric beds. This includes Victoria’s only paediatric intensive care beds outside of the Royal Children’s Hospital, a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Monash Children’s Cancer Centre and paediatric emergency department facilities.

Monash Children’s Hospital also houses Victoria’s only children’s sleep research facility, Victoria’s only Thalassaemia treatment unit, Victoria’s only centre for foetal surgery, and Victoria’s only facility for paediatric cardiac electrophysiology.

Mental health services include outpatient clinics to assess and manage mothers and their infants. There are inpatient and outpatient mental health services for patients up to 18 years, as well as their families.

As of 2012, Monash Children’s Hospital employed nearly 200 doctors and over 300 full-time nurses.

Research
In 2009 a team of clinicians at Monash Children’s Hospital made international headlines after they pioneered a world-first treatment for molybednum cofactor deficiency type A. The treatment was first used to treat ‘Baby Z’, who became the first person ever born with the condition to survive without sustaining brain damage.