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    Celebrating 10 years of Arts in Health

    Posted: February 4, 2020

    This year the WCH Foundation is thrilled to be celebrating 10 years of our Arts in Health program. Over the past decade the program has continually grown and now impacts over 83,000 patients each...

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    Tales of years gone by in the Hospital

    Posted: February 4, 2020

    When Doris Henderson (née Findlay) was training to be a nurse at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital in 1968 there was no university course, most of the trainees were 16 years old and they were...

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    A new year to remember at the Beach House

    Posted: February 4, 2020

    Throughout summer the WCH Foundation ‘Laklinyeri’ Beach House has been fully booked, with a family holidaying at the extraordinary home each week. The Booby family welcomed the start of the new decade at the...

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    Eloise Fleming: she’s got a fighting spirit!

    Posted: February 4, 2020

    “Eloise is doing fantastic, she is crawling all over the place and is getting into mischief like all toddlers do,” Nicole Fleming says of her adorable daughter. Nicole and her husband Shannon shared the...

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    Records broken at Golden Angels High Tea

    Posted: January 30, 2020

    Amazing records were broken at the Golden Angels fourth High Tea on Sunday 10 November 2019. The first record to fall was the attendance figure with close to 1000 people at the event. The...

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    Pop-up exhibition: The good, the beautiful and the true

    Posted: November 25, 2019

    Whilst learning about students’ experiences at the Hospital School, Cabra Year 10 Fashion Design class was given the brief to create a textile design to be printed and sewn into scarves. These scarves are...

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    The meaning of ‘Laklinyeri’

    Posted: October 14, 2019

    Women’s & Children’s Hospital Foundation CEO Jane Scotcher shares the journey of the WCH Foundation Beach House’s Aboriginal name – Laklinyeri (Lak-in-yeri). As part of the Beach House project the Foundation wanted to build...

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    Aboriginal women share their bush medicine knowledge in upcoming art exhibition

    Posted: October 14, 2019

    For the first time in the Women’s and Children’s Hospital an exhibition of paintings is on show as part of Tarnanthi – an internationally acclaimed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts festival. The WCH...

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    Jordan Lambropoulos: then and now

    Posted: October 11, 2019

    When Jordan Lambropoulos walks into the Women’s and Children’s Hospital on her midwifery placement it is an exciting milestone to mark the completion of her first year of university. However, this isn’t the only...

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    Play Therapist team expanded

    Posted: October 11, 2019

    Children receiving treatment in the Hospital’s Medical Day Unit (MDU) and Renal Dialysis Unit (RDU) now have support from a Play Therapist for the very first time. In mid-2019, Jessica joined the Play Therapy...

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