Pediatrics

Expanding services for babies and pregnant women
Expanding space and services for babies and
pregnant women

  St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto (St. Joe’s) is expanding care for pregnant women and new mothers before, during and after delivering a baby. One way the organization is responding to the needs of the growing south-west Toronto community is with the ...

Posted: December 3, 2011|Featured, Patient Care, Pediatrics, Public Health|0 comments

The Credit Valley Hospital recognizes paediatric oncology clinic partners
The Credit Valley Hospital recognizes paediatric
oncology clinic partners

At a brief ceremony on November 8th 21011, the partners in the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO) Satellite Clinic at The Credit Valley Hospital unveiled a new sign to celebrate and recognize this initiative that provides certain aspects of ...

Posted: November 16, 2011|Oncology, Patient Care, Pediatrics|0 comments

Flash mob “celebrates” local cancer services for children at Grand River Hospital and provincial network of care
Flash mob “celebrates” local cancer services for
children at Grand River Hospital and provincial network
of care

Grand River Hospital and the community have marked Childhood Cancer Awareness Month by “celebrating” local services that help kids live their everyday lives while undergoing treatment. The hospital’s KW Site was home to a flash mob to the Kool and the ...

Posted: November 3, 2011|Oncology, Pediatrics|0 comments

Improving outcomes for teenage dialysis patients
Improving outcomes for teenage dialysis patients

The BC Children’s Hospital renal program launched a transition clinic in 2007, with the goal of increasing survival rates among adolescents transferring from pediatric to adult renal services. Headed by pediatric   nephrologist Dr. Mina Matsuda-Abedini, a clinical investigator at the Child ...

Posted: October 28, 2011|Patient Care, Pediatrics, Research|0 comments

Volunteers ease stress of surgery at children’s hospital
Volunteers ease stress of surgery at
children’s hospital

  In an effort to offer continued support to children and youth undergoing surgery, the operating room (OR) staff at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), implemented a program that allows parents to be present during the anaesthetic induction of ...

Posted: October 27, 2011|Patient Care, Pediatrics|0 comments

Montreal team finds the gene responsible for three forms of childhood neurodegenerative diseases
Montreal team finds the gene responsible for three forms
of childhood neurodegenerative diseases

Researchers at Montreal hospitals were in the forefront of an international team that recently announced a breakthrough discovery in understanding some forms of leukodystrophy, a debilitating and ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disease that appears in childhood. Their research found that a ...

Posted: October 18, 2011|Neurology, Pediatrics|0 comments

New space for child and adolescent mental health
New space for child and adolescent mental health

It’s been 10 years since St. Joseph’s Health Centre inToronto(St. Joe’s) first opened its Child and Adolescent Mental Health program in what was renovated space in the paediatric unit. Now a decade later, this program will be housed for the ...

Posted: October 18, 2011|Mental Health, Pediatrics|0 comments

There’s no place like home for tiny patients and their families
There’s no place like home for tiny patients and
their families

Welcoming a new baby is a joyous event and Markham Stouffville Hospital is proud to share in approximately 3,100 births each year. After the excitement of a birth, the next big milestone is preparing to take the new baby home. ...

Posted: June 1, 2011|Patient Care, Pediatrics|0 comments

BC Children’s PICU learns quality improvement lesson the hard way
BC Children’s PICU learns quality improvement lesson
the hard way

The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at BC Children’s Hospital has achieved a significant milestone. They haven’t had a short-term central line infection in any of their patients since October 2008. Central lines are inserted in acutely ill patients who ...

Posted: June 1, 2011|Infection Control, Patient and Staff Safety, Pediatrics|0 comments

Turning the tide on intellectual disability: A new approach to diagnosis
Turning the tide on intellectual disability: A new
approach to diagnosis

BC Children’s Hospital is launching a new clinical research program that promises to change the medical paradigm for diagnosing and treating intellectual disability in children. The program, called “Treatable Intellectual Disability Endeavour in B.C. (TIDE-BC)”, features a diagnostic protocol of specific ...

Posted: June 1, 2011|Diagnostic, Pediatrics, Research|0 comments

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