The viral season that is already slamming children’s hospitals across Ontario will get worse before it gets better, warned the medical director of the pediatric…
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The respiratory virus crisis at CHEO intensified this week, even as adult hospitals were asked to begin taking some teen patients and more non-emergency surgeries…
Record-high levels of the RSV illness plus new cases of COVID-19 and the flu are all driving an unprecedented surge in demand at CHEO that…
The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario has unveiled a set of diagnostic equipment that it says should triple the number of procedures the hospital now…
CHEO’s in patient medical units were at 124 per cent capacity Friday as the regional children’s hospital scrambled to respond to “unprecedented pressure” that has…
Like many Ottawa parents, Melanie Raymond relies on social media and word of mouth to find children’s pain medication these days amid an ongoing, nationwide…
There was a sweet sadness at CHEO on Saturday as Mollypenny, the institution’s beloved therapeutic clown, did her final walkabout before heading off into retirement.…
But who is going to offer “brown Es” that turn out to be scraps of felt and chair “bored” meetings to make sick kids and…
Montfort Hospital planned to reopen its emergency room at 7:30 a.m. on Monday after a weekend of temporary overnight closures. Read More Source: Visit the…
'Nobody thinks that is OK': Children now waiting longer than adults for almost all health procedures
Amid a worsening health-care crisis in Ontario, Ottawa-area hospitals stand out with some of the longest emergency department wait times in the province. At the…