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Partial CHEO holiday slowdown December 24 to January 3
Posted on Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:51 AM
CHEO's partial holiday slowdown is separate from the province-wide lockdown recently announced by the Government of Ontario. During the lockdown from December 26 until January 21 in the south of Ontario, hospitals, mental health and addictions counselling, and home-care services for children with disabilities, among others, will continue to operate as planned.
CHEO will not be cancelling clinic appointments or scheduled procedures and surgeries as a result of the provincial lockdown. The CHEO School...
CHEO’s Chief Pharmacist joins Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine task force
Posted on Friday, December 04, 2020 10:04 AM
December 4, 2020 (Ottawa, ON) —Today, the Ontario government named CHEO’s Chief Pharmacist, Dr. Régis Vaillancourt, to the newly established Ministers' COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force — a handpicked group of experts who will advise the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in Ontario.
"I want to see as many people get vaccinated as possible because vaccines save lives,” said Dr. Régis Vaillancourt, CHEO’s Chief...
First baby in Canada identified with SMA using newborn screening
Posted on Wednesday, December 02, 2020 12:00 PM
First baby in Canada identified with SMA using newborn screening: given early treatment, ‘loves to move’
Dec. 2, 2020—OTTAWA— When Newborn Screening Ontario diagnosed spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in Aidan Deschamps’ bloodspot, he became the first baby in Canada identified with the genetic, neuromuscular condition through a provincial newborn screening program.
Just six days before his birth, Newborn Screening Ontario (based at CHEO) started...
CHEO welcomes three new members to its Board of Directors
Posted on Tuesday, December 01, 2020 11:08 AM
CHEO welcomes three new members to its Board of Directors: Karen Green, Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng and Dr. Ahmed Nasr
Autumn 2020 – Ottawa, ON – After much interest from community members far and wide, CHEO has selected three new members for its Board of Directors. Meet Karen Green, Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng and Dr. Ahmed Nasr who now serve as important decision-makers in support of CHEO’s vision, mission and values.
Karen GreenKaren Green, from Tyendinga Mohawk Territory, is a lawyer who has spent her...
Our children aren’t OK, Ont. health-care leaders warn; deep concern over new COVID-19 modelling data
Posted on Friday, November 20, 2020 11:45 AM
TORONTO, Nov. 20, 2020 (National Child Day) – Ontario’s leading children’s health-care providers today issue a stern warning and express deep concern about the current trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic. If the pandemic continues to spin out of control, schools will have to close, which must not happen. Our children’s health and wellbeing is at stake.
Other parts of the world show evidence that, as case counts rise, children pay a big price – most...