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The Royal Children's Hospital has some limited emergency and family accommodation options onsite - this is referred to as ‘overnight accommodation’. The rooms are booked through overnight accommodation/ day medical unit. You can ask the nursing staff to put in a request for you. They are booked on a day-by-day basis and there is a fee of $70/night with a maximum of 2 nights stay unless there is a valid reason for extension. Rural and regional families from 100+km away may be eligible to have costs covered by the relevant State Government Scheme.
Each accommodation room has two single beds plus a bathroom, with shower and toilet, and a telephone.
The overnight accommodation area also has:
Please note: The rooms do NOT have breast pumps, the breastfeeding and expressing page gives you information on when your baby is in Butterfly.