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CHEO dedicates accessibility funding to honour Kim McLeod

Ottawa — CHEO is establishing the Kim McLeod Accessibility Fund, an annual fund of $150,000 that honours the tireless advocate for families of children and youth with complex medical needs. The funds will be used to improve accessibility across CHEO, a pediatric health and research centre in Ottawa.

Along with her family and many friends, we mourned the loss of Kim in September 2021.

“Kim McLeod was a truly remarkable person with many gifts,” said...

CHEO toolkit helps other health organizations set up virtual rounds

CHEO’s new Virtual Family-Centred Rounds Toolkit collects lessons learned from our work when, in the spring of 2020, we quickly pivoted from in-person to virtual family-centred rounds. Now CHEO is sharing this expertise with health-care organizations.

For decades, family-centred rounds has involved a multidisciplinary group of health-care providers (physicians, nurses, pharmacists, learners and others) moving in a group from patient to patient to discuss,...

CHEO, SickKids awarded HIMSS Stage 7: recognizing digital excellence in quality health care

Ranked among the world’s safest providers of quality care

Ottawa and Toronto, Ontario — Working together, CHEO and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have both achieved HIMSS Stage 7, the world’s highest designation  for using an electronic medical record (EMR) to improve patient outcomes and engagement — which makes this achievement about safety and quality of care for children and youth; not only about technology.

CHEO and SickKids are the only health-care organizations in Canada...

Mental Health and Addiction Care: Book Your Own Appointment

March 14, 2022 —OTTAWA—A new tool from 1Call1Click.ca now gives children, youth and their families the ability to schedule their own appointment to speak with an intake worker about their mental health needs and best options for care. By taking the initiative to schedule this themselves, they can do so at their own discretion and convenience. 

“I'm so happy to be a part of something so important,” say Stephanie Dinsdale, 1Call1Click.ca’s Youth Partner. “When you're in a mental...

Children’s Health Coalition Statement on Lifting of Pandemic Measures in Schools

Ottawa and Toronto, March 9, 2022 — With today’s announcement, we want to thank everyone, including students and education staff, for your commitment to and diligence with public health measures throughout the pandemic. We know that masking, daily screening, cohorting and distancing have been tough, but adherence to these measures has allowed schools to remain open.  

Keeping schools open has been the most important...