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Ready to right-size Ontario’s pediatric health system
Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2023 06:09 PM
TORONTO, March 23, 2023 – The Children’s Health Coalition welcomes the Ontario government’s commitments to allocate additional funding and work with frontline pediatric health partners to identify more ways to connect children and youth to the care they need.
Today, Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy tabled Ontario’s 2023 budget, Building A Strong Ontario, which includes this passage:
“Every child in Ontario should be able to get the care they need, when they need it.”
We agree. We know what needs...
Kids Come First innovates to improve home care for kids and tackle skills shortages
Posted on Monday, March 13, 2023 11:57 AM
OTTAWA (March 13, 2023) – The Kids Come First Health Team, clinicians, parents and home-care agencies have launched an innovative training strategy to help tackle staff shortages and skills gaps. The goal of the new Centre of Excellence for Pediatric Home and Community Care Training is to build capacity, and better serve kids and their families in their homes and communities.
The centre’s first focus is educating and preparing home-care workers to provide specialized care to infants, children and...
Connecting children and youth with specialized care
Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2023 11:47 AM
New pilot program will ensure children and youth with complex special needs connect to the care and services they need
HAMILTON — The Ontario government is investing $97 million over three years to launch a pilot program at three major hospitals in Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa to help children and youth with complex special needs such as developmental and intellectual disabilities, mental health concerns, chronic conditions and physical disabilities, connect to the highly individualized and...
CHEO receives official French services health provider designation
Posted on Wednesday, March 01, 2023 10:53 AM
March 1, 2023 - Ottawa, ON - We are proud to announce CHEO has received the French services health provider designation under the Province of Ontario French Language Services Act. The nomination was provided by the Réseau des services de santé en français de l’Est de l’Ontario (RSSFE) and approved by the Ministry of Health in December 2022.
Seeking health care, especially for children and youth, can be daunting. At CHEO, we work hard to remove barriers like language, and make kids’ health care...
Kids Come First to help families catch up on immunizations with innovative, seamless solution
Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2023 11:51 AM
Ottawa, Canada (February 23, 2023) — On National Kids and Vaccines Day, partners of the Kids Come First Health Team are working together to provide a streamlined, easy-to-use system that will help families – especially those without access to primary care – catch up on routine childhood immunizations and can also send the records to local public health units, automatically.
In Ottawa alone, over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, kids have missed tens of thousands of doses of their routine...