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ENS care transforms complex CHEO surgery experience
Posted on Monday, March 17, 2025 09:00 AM
The Extensive Needs Service (ENS) program at CHEO continues to meet the evolving needs of patients, working to transform challenging medical experiences.
Through ENS, individualized and vital wrap-around support has been provided to more than1,400 children and their families. The program is run by three children’s hospitals in Ontario: CHEO, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and McMaster Children’s Hospital.
That support was essential for Kennedy McVey, who has Prader–Willi Syndrome, a rare genetic...
CHEO nursing support after discharge improves equity, access to care
Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2025 09:00 AM
CHEO has launched a program that helps families after their child has been discharged from hospital to provide follow-up care and support during the transition back to home.
The Inpatient Medicine Discharge Program is delivered by CHEO’s Home and Community Care Rapid Response Nurses, a dedicated team of six nurses and one nurse practitioner.
Nurses call families within one to two days of discharge to review discharge instructions and guide caregivers, helping them through “caregiver anxiety,” a common after-effect of a...
CHEO nurse carries daughter’s legacy to give kids courage
Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 09:00 AM
Each day, Brenda Fraser brings a little container to the Endocrinology Clinic at CHEO that carries a lot of meaning.
There’s a collection of bracelets with beads from the entire colour wheel. They’re called “BRAVE bracelets,” and the endocrinology nurse shares them with children to help them through difficult procedures in the clinic.
The bracelets symbolize resilience and strength, and their name comes from Fraser’s daughter, Erin, whose bravery and dedication to helping others shone bright.
Erin was a talented young musician,...
Celebrating women behind the machines for International Women's Day
Posted on Thursday, March 06, 2025 09:00 AM
You likely won’t spot them during your visit to CHEO, but the clinical engineering team is working hard in the background, responsible for supplying, optimizing, and improving the latest medical equipment and tools to help provide world-class pediatric care.
On March 8, International Women’s Day, we recognize and celebrate some of the dedicated and hard-working women who bring the latest, most innovative tools to CHEO.
The team includes clinical engineers who work behind the scenes to find the best medical devices, and b
World-first ThinkRare algorithm helps family get early diagnosis of rare genetic disorder
Posted on Friday, February 28, 2025 09:00 AM
CHEO's world-first ThinkRare algorithm is improving the lives of children, youth, and families by helping to flag some of the youngest patients who may have undiagnosed rare diseases, which answers important medical questions sooner.
Eddy Craig was born just a few days before Christmas 2022. From day one, his mom Ashley says Eddy had difficulties feeding, and he would gurgle and wheeze while trying to breathe.
He was diagnosed with Failure to Thrive, a medical term used when a child does not grow or gain weight...