Kids and youth are always growing – physically, mentally and emotionally. And to keep up with their evolving needs, CHEO is growing too!
We’re expanding our programs and services, so that kids can get the care they need, when, where and how they need it.
Thanks to a historic investment of $40.5 million by the Ontario government in 2023, we’re finding new and innovative ways to:
- Provide more care: including in our clinics, our surgical services, our medical imaging services, our child development programs, and our mental health services.
- Increase our provincial programs so they can help more kids and youth
Seeing more kids and youth
New program brings surgeries closer to home, tackles wait-list
A new initiative brings day surgery closer to eastern Ontario families, supported by the expertise of medical teams at CHEO and regional hospitals, while also targeting the longstanding surgical wait-list.
New MRI clinic uses virtual reality to shorten wait-list for general anesthesia
Amanda Linton’s four-year-old daughter Adeline has had several MRIs at CHEO since she was a baby, and she needed general anesthesia each time. That meant days off work for a procedure that required more than three hours in hospital. The procedure itself is not easy on a child either.
CHEO sleep clinic increases capacity, treats urgent patients sooner
Sleep apnea is also now commonly identified as part of the larger medical picture for children with conditions like obesity, craniofacial abnormalities, neuromuscular disease, Down syndrome, among others. The growing demand for diagnosis and follow-up care is why the sleep clinic added a nurse practitioner.
Four-year-old Félix Gagné has never been comfortable sitting in a car seat. He was born with a genetic condition called kyphosis, a curvature of the spine from front to back, which his father Marc says led to scoliosis, a curvature of the spine from left to right.
After-hours appointments help cut down longstanding wait-lists at CHEO
Since August, the in-person appointments – which run between 4 and 8 p.m. Monday to Friday, as well as up to three times per month on Saturday – have seen more than 1,600 patients in the first five months.