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Pediatric hospitals making mealtime safer for children, youth fed through a tube

November 3, 2022 – Ontario’s specialty pediatric hospitals are standardizing the type of feeding tube equipment they use for children and youth, making the administration of nutrition and medications safer. By end of January 2023, hospitals with the Children’s Health Coalition will all be using ENFit feeding tube connectors. 

ENFit, a global patient-safety initiative, makes mealtime and medication administration by tube as safe as possible by...

Care4Rare celebrates a decade of life-changing discoveries and innovations in clinical genetics

November 3, 2022 – For more than a decade, the Care4Rare Canada Consortium (Care4Rare) has provided answers for families living with undiagnosed rare disease. Care4Rare is an international trailblazer in rare disease, using cutting-edge technologies to discover the underlying cause while bringing diagnostic innovations into the clinical care pathway for rare disease.

More than one-third of the estimated 1 million Canadians living with rare disease lack a genetic diagnosis, despite lengthy and...

Taking action to meet the demands of a sustained surge at CHEO

Ottawa, Canada (November 2, 2022) — Like most pediatric hospitals across the country, CHEO is experiencing an unprecedented major surge. There is a significant increase in the number of young patients with acute viral respiratory infections including RSV, COVID and the seasonal flu. This means that the hospital is well beyond its capacity and wait times are, unfortunately, historically long.

To address this emergency situation, staff and leadership...

Construction begins in CHEO’s visitor Parking Lot A

Starting Wednesday, November 2 and expected to last for 2-3 weeks, construction will be taking place in and around CHEO’s Parking Lot A. Lot A is one of two parking lots designated for patients, families, caregivers and visitors.

During this construction period, we appreciate your patience as we work to improve our facilities and your experience at CHEO. Here is what you can expect over the next couple weeks:

• Public (patients, families,...

Media briefing on RSV: Early viral season hitting hard — why it matters

Ottawa, Canada — CHEO, like other pediatric hospitals, continues to be very busy with the onset of an early viral season. (See our October 7 release.)

Our Emergency Department just had its busiest September ever. Kids are coming into Emergency sicker and we are seeing a higher proportion with respiratory viral illnesses. Our inpatient medicine units (where most of the admissions from Emergency go) are consistently running at or above 120% capacity.

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