Run Ballarat

Funds raised $ 12831

Target: $ 25000

$ 12831raised

51%

GOAL $ 25000

Adroit Insurance Group are proud to be bringing Run Ballarat to the community in 2012 as Joint Organisers.

We encourage you to do that little bit extra this year and fundraise to support the Children’s Ward in Ballarat

About Run Ballarat

Welcome to the inaugural Run Ballarat! This event has grown from the idea that we can come together to change the face of Children’s Health in the Ballarat Community.

We are hoping to make this year’s event a special one for the Ballarat Community and deliver an amazing result for the Children’s’ Ward. By registering and joining the Ballarat community this year you will help ensure that we give the redevelopment the start that it needs!

Runners and walkers of all abilities can challenge themselves with either a 11km or 6km course that starts on beautiful Sturt Street (opposite the City Oval), visits some of Ballart’s most iconic landmarks and finishes on City Oval.

Reasons why Run Ballarat is an event everyone should be a part of!

100% of entry fee goes to Ballarat Base Hospital Children’s Ward Redevelopment
You are changing the way that we deliver healthy outcomes to children in our community!
You’ll receive an awesome Event T-shirt FREE!

About The Children's Ward

The Paediatric and Adolescent Unit (Children’s Ward) at Ballarat Health Services is a 20-bed unit which offers specialist care for children and adolescents up to 18 years of age.

It is in desperate need of redesign and redevelopment after nearly two decades of delivering inpatient services to children and families.

Many of the services that are now required by the Ballarat and surrounding communities have been redeployed to Melbourne health services, meaning that our children and families face the incredibly challenging scenario of travelling to get the care that they require.

Our vision is to change that.

The below services and facilities are some of the areas that are most in need and will be addressed in the redevelopment;

Chemotherapy for children with cancer
Expanded treatment and resuscitation
An enhanced resuscitation area for neonates and infants
Short Stay Unit for 24 hour monitoring after presentation to the Emergency Department.
An outdoor play area
A range of parent accommodation is required.
Development of Same Day surgery ward
Accommodation for dedicated child diabetes and dietetics services.

Run Ballarat

Funds raised $ 12831

Target: $ 25000

$ 12831raised

51%

GOAL $ 25000

Run Ballarat supports the Ballarat Base Hospital Children's Ward by contributing money raised from the event for the redevelopment of the Ballarat Base Hospital Children's Ward.
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Ballarat Base Hospital Children's Ward
http://www.bhs.org.au

First in world-class health care for the Ballarat region.

Ballarat Health Services has been providing quality care for the Ballarat and Grampians region for 150 years.

We work to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, their families, and our community.

Ballarat Health Services is a total health care provider.

That means we care for patients and the community with a comprehensive range of general and specialist care, across every key medical and healthcare discipline.

Acute Care
Sub-Acute Care
Residential Care
Community Care
Psychiatric Services
Rehabilitation Services

Putting our patients' health first.

All of our staff, and all of the services we provide, are guided by a simple philosophy: "Don't settle for second best."

We want the best for our patients and their families, and they deserve the very best from us."

Paediatric & Adolescent Unit

The Paediatric and Adolescent Unit at Ballarat Health Services is a 20-bed unit which offers specialist care for children and adolescents up to 18 years of age.

The staff are committed to family centred, individualised care which empowers and encourages the involvement of family members in their child's treatment and care.

Paediatric and Adolescent services at Ballarat Health Services are extensive with most medical and many surgical conditions expertly managed locally.

With up to 800 presentations of children per month to the Emergency Department, the unit admits approximately 200 children and adolescents per month. Extensive community care services compliment their inpatient care on discharge.

The unit is staffed 24 hours a day by a highly dedicated team of paediatric nurses, consultant paediatricians and hospital medical officers. Paediatric allied health staff including a social worker, dietician, speech pathologist, physiotherapist and members of the Infant and Child as well as Adolescent Mental Health services and members of the Perinatal Emotional Help Program compliment the dedicated team.