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Thanks to a rapid, coordinated response, seven in 10 babies born at eastern Ontario hospitals received protection from respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, during the first season of Ontario’s new immunization program — a major step forward in safeguarding infant health.
This feat was accomplished thanks to leadership from CHEO and Kids Come First, which mobilized rapidly once Ontario launched its publicly funded protection program for RSV in November 2024.
News PostThe new CHEO Integrated Treatment Centre is one step closer to reality as construction begins.
Construction of the new, fully accessible and state-of-the-art treatment centre began with a ceremonial groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday, April 24, 2025.
News PostAfter years of planning and hard work, CHEO has reached a significant milestone by finalizing the design for the new Integrated Treatment Centre on its Smyth Road campus as shovels enter the ground spring 2025.
The treatment centre, which will be built in front of the main CHEO building, will significantly enhance care and coordination while improving access to services for children and youth living with complex medical, developmental, behavioural, and mental health needs.
News PostCHEO has launched a specialized weekly community clinic that brings care and support closer to neurodiverse children and youth, and their families.
Hunter Nicholas, 13, lives with autism and has an extreme needle phobia.
News PostChildren and youth who are medically complex, fragile, and technology dependent are the one-percenters, visiting the hospital potentially dozens of times a year, which can leave some parents and caregivers feeling overwhelmed, wading through an equally complex health-care system.
That is why CHEO's Outpatient Complex Care program serves such a valuable and impactful role, creating one cohesive team of decision-makers — including CHEO clinicians, local community organizations and families — that focuses on proactive and preventative.
News PostNews PostCHEO’s Critical Care Transport Team, a lifeline for children in crisis, has now extended its life-saving expertise to older patients.
With a team of specialized nurses and respiratory therapists on call 24/7, they traverse vast distances by ambulance, helicopter, or plane, bringing urgent care to communities across eastern and northern Ontario and western Quebec.
News PostPeer support for CHEO staff, medical staff and learners has significantly improved thanks in large part to the vision of critical care nurses in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
It began when PICU Advanced Practice Nurse Sophia Bucking and her colleagues felt the toll of a traumatic case during a shift in 2017.
News PostParents experience sudden trauma, shock, fear and sadness when a baby requires intensive care immediately after birth, and they have to face many losses.
That first cuddle.
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