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    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.

    Working through the Kids Come First health team, this new program sees surgeries like a tonsillectomy and appendectomyconducted at the Carleton Place & District Memorial Hospital and the Brockville General Hospital approximately four times per month.

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    April 4, 2024 - Ottawa, ON – A new regional pediatric surgical program has been launched to address the wait-list for surgeries for children and youth in eastern Ontario and bring care closer to families across the region. The initiative, led by the Kids Come First Health Team and supported by historic funding from the Ontario government last year, brings the CHEO day surgery program to two sites: Brockville General Hospital and Carleton Place & District Memorial Hospital.

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    Meet Katelyn Ruggiero, Scheduling Officer for the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)

    13 years ago, when Katelyn Ruggiero (Katy), was 37 weeks pregnant, her whole life shifted. Her family, including her husband and 2.

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    In 1974, the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (now CHEO) was merely an infant, six months old and filling up with children transferred from adult hospitals in the region.

    When on Grey Cup Sunday, Nov.

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    On April 8, a solar eclipse will cross North America, including Ottawa. Plan ahead and take safety precautions if you plan to watch this exciting phenomenon.

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    Meet Dr. Tom Kovesi, Pediatric Respirologist

    As a child, Dr.

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    Meet Dr. Maude Lambert, Clinical Neuropsychologist with CHEO’s Development and Rehabilitation Department.

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    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.

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    The CHEO sleep clinic can now see more new patients and treat those with severe sleep apnea much sooner thanks to By CHEO - Mar 15, 2024

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    Meet Cynthia Joly, an Advanced Practice Nurse in CHEO’s NICU

    Forty-three years ago, due to a blood infection and jaundice, Cynthia spent her first days of life in CHEO’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Little did she know the NICU would eventually become her home for a second time – the place where she would become a nurse.

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