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Ottawa - RBC Foundation will present a major gift to CHEO for the Kids Come First Health Team to improve access to youth mental health and addictions care in our community. This donation will support One Call/One Click, a new way of working that will create a single point of entry to Eastern Ontario’s system of care for mental health and addictions.

Members of the media are invited to attend the presentation to learn more about this exciting new service.

WHAT: Major gift enables new...

A reminder to keep up-to-date with children’s immunizations

Ottawa — September 17, 2020 — Today, Ottawa Public Health and CHEO declared an end to the chickenpox outbreak which was limited to 4 East, an inpatient pediatric medicine unit at CHEO.

“This small outbreak was a clear reminder for everyone to ensure their children’s vaccinations are up-to-date,” said Dr. Nisha Thampi, a pediatric infectious diseases physician and the medical director of the Infection Protection and Control Program at CHEO.

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— Statement by Dr. Alan Forster, Testing Strategy Lead for the Champlain COVID-19 Response Committee and Vice-President of Innovation and Quality at The Ottawa Hospital, from Sept. 15 media conference hosted by Ottawa Public Health —

I’d like to begin by telling you what is being done to increase the region’s testing capacity. We know people are frustrated by the long lines and we hear you. None of us want this. Believe me.

These waits tell us that, with the COVID-19 surge we’re seeing now, the expansion...

OTTAWA—There have been record-setting volumes at the Brewer Assessment Centre in recent days.

We knew that with kids returning to school we would see these volumes. To prepare, we have tripled staffing in the last month for testing children and youth at the centre. More are being trained and still more are being hired.

Additional staff are being trained to extend hours of operation at the Brewer Assessment Centre by 4 hours/day, to 12 hours of operation 7 days/week. The hours for the drive-through...