2011 - Mater Children's Hospital Outpatients Unit

The 2011 recipient of the Lexus Owners' Gift is the Mater Children's Hospital Outpatients Unit.

The Mater Children's Hospital is home to the Queensland Paediatric Cardiac Service which cares for 350 children each year. Each year approximately 2000 children are born in Australia with a hear defect - that is an astoudning six babies each day.

The Lexus Owners' Gift is a new ECG machine for the Mater Children’s Hospital Outpatients Unit.

The new state-of-the-art machine allows cardiologists to review ECG outputs from any area of the hospital, enabling them to respond faster if a child is starting to show problems with their ECG scans. There is currently only one ECG machine in the outpatient department with this capacity, so a new machine will enable the Mater to provide even better care to young patients.