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Family-centred care is what makes CHEO so special
Posted on Tuesday, April 02, 2024 01:31 PM
Meet Katelyn Ruggiero, Scheduling Officer for the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
13 years ago, when Katelyn Ruggiero (Katy), was 37 weeks pregnant, her whole life shifted. Her family, including her husband and 2.5-year-old son, Luca, were in a severe car accident. Her son absorbed the brunt of the hit and was airlifted to CHEO. Meanwhile, her husband received care for his injuries and Katy started going into labour. During the early stages of labour, Katy remembers receiving a call from Luca’s neurosurgeon – he
CHEO staff saved Nicole's life 50 years ago
Posted on Thursday, March 28, 2024 09:00 AM
In 1974, the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (now CHEO) was merely an infant, six months old and filling up with children transferred from adult hospitals in the region.
When on Grey Cup Sunday, Nov. 24, 15-month-old Nicole Gibeau arrived in an ambulance from Arnprior, just west of Ottawa.Nicole wasn’t eating or sleeping and her parents, Terry and Beth, were told an ambulance would take her to CHEO.
The young couple had never heard of it. The ambulance driver, when told to take Nicole to CHEO, had...
The journey from paleontologist to CHEO’s first respirologist
Posted on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 08:30 AM
Meet Dr. Tom Kovesi, Pediatric Respirologist
As a child, Dr. Tom Kovesi was determined to be a paleontologist. Hoping to inspire him to become a doctor, his parents took him to visit CHEO’s open house in 1974 – offering the unique opportunity to peek inside Eastern Ontario’s first children’s hospital before the doors opened. He remembers being impressed with the Radiology Department – the high-tech equipment and the greenish grey equipment – but it wasn’t enough to convince him – yet!
Years later, his uncle had
Honouring our patients and their families through bilingualism
Posted on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 08:00 AM
Meet Dr. Maude Lambert, Clinical Neuropsychologist with CHEO’s Development and Rehabilitation Department.
Dr. Maude Lambert comes from a small rural town in Quebec. Growing up in a unilingual French-speaking town, Dr. Lambert didn’t learn English until her 20s – yet today, she provides high quality care to patients in both English and French, something she is deeply passionate about.
Committed to learning English, Dr. Lambert left her small French community to begin her university education in a...
New MRI clinic uses virtual reality to shorten wait-list for general anesthesia
Posted on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 09:00 AM
Amanda Linton’s four-year-old daughter Adeline has had several MRIs at CHEO since she was a baby, and she needed general anesthesia each time.
That meant days off work for a procedure that required more than three hours in hospital. The procedure itself is not easy on a child either: fasting beforehand, inserting a breathing tube in their airway during the MRI, and then grogginess from the medication as part of the recovery.
The wait-list for an MRI with general anesthesia could have also forced the family to wait more than...