Overview of campus changes
What is the Sydney Children’s Hospital Stage 1 and Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre?
The Sydney Children’s Hospital Stage 1 and Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre (SCH1/MCCCC) project brings world-leading clinical care, research and education together under one roof to transform kids’ health.
Services in the new building include:
- An enhanced Children’s Intensive Care Unit, including single enclosed bed spaces, special isolation rooms and generous family amenities
- Children's Emergency Department including a resuscitation zone, specially designed acute bed spaces, Ambulatory and Fast Track zones and an Emergency
Short Stay Unit - A Medical Imaging Department adjacent to Emergency Department
- A Medical Short Stay Unit
- A Neurosciences Inpatient Unit and Neurosciences Comprehensive Care and Research Centre
- A Virtual Care Centre and Hospital Command Centre
- Inpatient units for medical, surgical and sleep studies
- The Minderoo Children's Comprehensive Cancer Centre, incorporating a day oncology centre and inpatient units, as well as a dedicated new bone marrow transplant unit
- Co-located laboratories to support cancer research, education and training
- A new general pharmacy with advanced therapeutics and a sterile suite
- Improved parent amenities, including new overnight beds for parents and bereavement rooms
- Education and training spaces
New building names
The Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network has worked with consumers, staff and the local Aboriginal community, in partnership with Gujaga Foundation, to ensure the building names assist with wayfinding while also celebrating culture.
- The existing hospital will be known as the Children’s Building, or Building C
- The new 12-storey hospital and research building will be known as the Bilima Building, or Building B (Bilima means ‘freshwater turtle’ in Dharawal language)
- The basement floors of the new building will be named B.B2 and B.B1, and the remaining floors B0 to B9
- Department prefixes will be named B1 North and B1 South, continuing up the building to B9 North and B9 South
- Entrances will be named based on the building letter, for example, High Street Entrance B for the new building main entrance off High Street.
