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Hospitals in the Champlain Region slowly and safely increasing scheduled hospital activity

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This is a joint message from chiefs-of-staff at hospitals in the Champlain Region

OTTAWA – June 10, 2020 – Hospitals in the Champlain Region are taking a safe, coordinated and gradual approach to increasing scheduled services, which were postponed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. While hospitals and their clinicians are eager to care for as many patients as safely possible, this measured...

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CHEO supports anti-racism

Our vision at CHEO is the best life for every child and youth, regardless of who they are or the circumstances of their birth. Discrimination and injustice hurt kids in real ways. Racism harms their health and will have enduring impacts well into adulthood. Anti-racism is not a finish line to reach, it is ongoing work we all must do.

That’s why we are in solidarity with those standing up for themselves and for others. We are horrified by the many overt examples of racism, injustice and discrimination...

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CHEO seeks volunteers to join its Board of Directors

CHEO, the leading provider of specialized pediatric health services in the region, is currently recruiting volunteers to join its Board of Directors. CHEO’s Board of Directors is responsible for the overall governance of the organization - its members set the organization’s strategic priorities and ensure they’re met; they provide ongoing oversight of the quality of care provided; and ensure financial resources are managed appropriately.

CHEO is seeking to fill two vacancies...

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Kids Come First extends its wrap-around support for at-risk children and youth

Ottawa —  With safety top of mind, the Kids Come First Health Team has come together for some of the region’s most vulnerable children and youth — those who are, or at risk of, experiencing maltreatment, such as abuse or neglect — during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Home may not always be a safe place, but it is the only place young people have been allowed to be for weeks.

Add in school closures, and financial and emotional stresses on families, organizations working with...

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When will CHEO resume elective surgeries and in-person clinical services?

On May 14, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced that hospitals can begin offering scheduled surgeries and procedures, and non-urgent in-person clinical services when they meet the province’s criteria to do so safely.

We are very glad to hear this news.

All areas across CHEO are, and have been, hard at work putting the safety plans in place that will allow us to meet the province’s requirements for resuming some of our services. What Doug Ford’s...

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