Al Jalila Children’s was designed with a focus on making things a little easier for patients, their families and all our visitors. Our staff have been trained to assist you and to help out where and whenever they can. The main reception desk in the atrium provides a concierge service. We shall always endeavour to help with any questions.
You might also be interested to find out about the following services that we offer:
Hospitalists
Our paediatric hospitalists are in-patient consultants dedicated to providing medical care for hospitalized children. If your child is admitted to Al Jalila Children’s, our hospitalists are available to provide care for your child 24/7. Our hospitalists have training in general pediatrics, so they are equipped to manage the most common pediatric illnesses, in addition have additional expertise in managing complex medical problems.
In complex cases which require additional subspecialist consults, our hospitalists will work closely with other consultants to ensure comprehensive care. They provide professional, compassionate, respectful, family-centered care to all patients. They ensure coordination of care with subspecialists and nurses, rapid follow up on test results, and clear communication of care plans with patient families.
Play Rooms and waiting rooms
The hospital has several playrooms for children. Primarily for patient use, siblings are welcome to use the playrooms with the permission of a unit staff nurse. Supervision is not provided for the playrooms so parents or an adult family member are responsible to watch over their child/children at all times. Siblings are also invited to participate in any planned hospital supervised activities. To protect patients, a health screen must be completed for each sibling using a playroom that is also used by patients. Also available are family waiting areas throughout the organization to offer place, gather with family, rest, work, or read.
Breastfeeding/ Lactating Room
In support of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) initiative to increase the rate of breastfeeding worldwide, four (4) breastfeeding rooms (Outpatient Department, Emergency Department, Paediatric ICU and the Neonatal ICU) are located throughout Al Jalila Children’s each supplied with an electrical breast pump and required consumables. Please make yourself comfortable, a TV is also available for your entertainment. Portable breast pumps are also available on the patient care units, to be utilized in the patient rooms as needed.
Television
Most of our patient care units have a Patient Entertainment System (free of charge) at each patient bedside for providing enjoyment and a distraction for children. This includes television channels, games, and internet access. Names of your care team and healthcare goals for the day, education and other features will also be available in the near future. If you have any questions about this service please ask your nurse.
Mobile Phones / Wireless devices
Each patient room on the paediatric units has a telephone that can be used free of charge for local calls. Patients, families, and visitors are also permitted to use mobile phones and wireless devices throughout the hospital. Out of respect for other patients and to reduce noise levels, please ensure the volume is turned off, your phone is set to vibrate and that you keep voices low and conversations short in duration. In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) calls are not to be received in the patient rooms, if you need to talk on the phone please proceed to the waiting areas located at the ICU entrances. Young children when unwell need a restful environment to promote healing.
You will also notice and see clinical staff using a small phone in addition to a device carried around their neck. Be assured this is not for personal use but rather this mode of communication known as ‘Vocera’ allows staff to locate and communicate vital healthcare information as needed to fellow colleagues in a timely and effective manner.
Food Court
The Food Court on the first floor of the hospital and a coffee shop in the atrium serve teas and coffees, hot and cold beverages, and food from a la carte menus from 7:30am each day (8.30am over weekends) and a range of fresh snacks, salads and sandwiches throughout the day, up to 10pm. There are vending machines available on each floor, 24 hours a day.
Health promotion
We think it’s important to encourage healthy eating and exercise and we do this in a fun, engaging way. In collaboration with experts from our dentistry team and the clinical nutrition physiotherapy departments we are developing programmes to promote hands and mouth hygiene, healthy eating habits and healthy body (exercise) programmes. We encourage parents and siblings participation to support and assist patients.
Hospital Schooling
Al Jalila Children’s assists parents with the engagement of a learning institution to provide long term patients with an effective schooling system and a positive and enjoyable learning experience. Our in-room entertainment system provides online and digital facilities, allowing patients to participate in online and digital learning programmes.
Children who are well enough may have lessons in their ward from visiting teachers.
Interpreter Services
Support is available for patients and families who have language and communication needs. We will usually be told of the need for this service at the time of referral from your GP or healthcare practitioner.
Language interpreter services are available for face-to-face interpreting and telephone interpretation.
Media Centre
Our media centre, in the shape and form of a gigantic lady bird, is a therapeutic and an entertainment environment created for the express purpose of delivering high levels of stimuli to patients. State-of-the-art technology and sensory installations, combined with lighting effects, colours, textures, sounds and computer games provide stimulation for patients’ olfactory, auditory and gustatory systems, as well as movement and coordination stimulation.
The media centre assists patients and their families during their hospitalisation, illness, injury and treatment to make their hospital stay as comfortable as possible, as well as to ensure that the children’s developmental, emotional and psychological needs are being met while they are cared for at the hospital.
Music and Art Therapy
As well as having dedicated play therapists to entertain and distract our young patients, there are regular visits from artists, storytellers, musicians and magicians to not just entertain children, but to encourage their creative sides and boost their recovery.
Patient and Family Support Team
A confidential service is available to support the families and carers of patients, when any concerns or complaints cannot be addressed by ward or clinic staff. Contact one of our social workers on 800 2524 or drop us a line at info@ajch.ae with any question that you may have regarding a patient or family support.
Pharmacy
Our spiritual care team are available 24 hours a day to support, reassure and assist families of any faith.The Outpatient Pharmacy is situated in the atrium, close to the escalators.
Prayer room
A prayer room is situated on the basement floor (B).
Self-catering facilities
Each inpatient ward has an area near the patient rooms for parents to make hot and cold drinks, snacks, and chat with other parents.
Staying overnight
Patient bedrooms have been equipped with a special sleeper coach, so one parent or carer can stay overnight. Visiting hours for friends and families may vary by ward, so please check with staff.
Community Services
“It is far easier to build financial capital than it is to build intellectual, psychological and moral capital. Building a road or a bridge may take a year or two, but developing people takes a lifetime. Social development, in all its aspects, requires distinct programmes, outstanding performance, patience and special criteria for measurement and evaluation.”
– H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
In line with the Government of Dubai’s initiatives to develop the social sector and communities in Dubai, Al Jalila Children’s included in its strategic plan a set of objectives to promote healthcare in the UAE. We also have the health and wellbeing of communities at heart in countries in the Arab world (Yemen, in particular), Africa, the Indian Subcontinent and Asia, where we have embarked on philanthropic missions and healthcare programmes, including heart surgery and treatment of congenital heart conditions.
Facilities for the Disabled
Embracing the Government of Dubai’s initiative to be the world’s friendliest city for the disabled, Al Jalila Children’s supports the ‘My community … a city for everyone’ initiative. The initiative aims at empowering the disabled within an overarching framework that contributes to enhancing the effectiveness of existing projects and initiatives, and developing more initiatives of this sort in accordance with a vision that aims to maximise the participation and integration of individuals with disabilities in the community, and to create new opportunities for them.
Committed to bringing the Vision 2020 to reality, Al Jalila Children’s provides facilities for the disabled in and around the hospital and all our facilities.
Family services
We continue to develop services in and around the hospital to give patients and their families the best possible experience of Al Jalila Children’s. Social workers offer support and services to bereaved families, including counselling, support groups and the Child Death Helpline. Contact one of our social workers on 800 2524.
Wheelchairs
Age appropriate wheelchairs are available at the security front desk upon request or you may ask your unit care nurse.
Internet
Stay connected via Al Jalila Children’s complimentary guest wireless network available to patients, families and visitors. To connect, sign on to AJCH-GUEST wireless network.
Meds to Beds
The Al Jalila Children’s Meds to Beds is a programme where a clinical pharmacist comes to the unit with your child’s discharge prescription medication and discusses with you and your child education regarding:
Nutritional Services
The Nutrition Department strives to provide healthy, balanced, child-friendly meals that appeal to children. Menus are rotated on a daily basis and printed in both Arabic and English language.
If a child is required to be placed on a special dietary regime, our dieticians or nurses will explain what that means. Patients who have food allergies, are on special diets, or who have dietary requirements such as a vegetarian or lactose free diet and those with conditions such diabetes, celiac disease and cystic fibrosis are provided with personalised menus.
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