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That’s how many times, on a recent trip to Peru, that volunteer staff from CHEO and SHOEBOX said “Raise your hand if you hear a noise.”

Hearing loss is an invisible but very common disability.

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The skills and commitment of CHEO’s staff and physicians are integral to providing the best life for every child and youth in our community and around the world. Through care and innovation, CHEO’s staff and physicians can have an impact on direct patient care, better support those who provide treatment and produce ground-breaking research.

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While six year old Sasha, with her confident grin, may look like your average first grader ready to take on the world, what you can’t tell is that she’s faced a lot of uncertainty in her life and fought hard to get to this moment.

Diagnosed at CHEO with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia at just four years old, Sasha spent many weeks at a time in isolation.

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Toronto/Ottawa – Kids Health Alliance (KHA), founded by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Holland Bloorview) and CHEO, today announced Larissa Smit as the interim executive director while Lauren Ettin, executive director of KHA, is away on maternity leave. Larissa brings extensive policy, stakeholder engagement and collaboration experience most recently from her role as the senior health advisor in the Premier’s Office.

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One of our key goals at CHEO is to make sure the voices of children, youth and families guide the care we provide and the future of our organization. We call this being Partners in Health.

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Back in May 2018, we embarked on a journey to imagine “CHEO of the future”. All Ontario health care systems have to undergo a master planning and visioning exercise – it’s mandated by the government to create a business plan for the next 25 years.

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To celebrate International Self Care Day on July 24, we asked our Instagram followers how they practice self-care! Self-care can be anything that helps your mental, emotional or physical health. It’s always important to take care of yourself, especially when you’re busy at work or school, dealing with stressful life situations or feeling down.

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While you can get urgent help at CHEO any day of the year, we do have a partial slowdown for a few days each August. Our Emergency Department and all urgent and essential services are open, but for a few days each summer non-urgent clinic appointments and elective surgeries are deferred and our administrative services are closed.

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Sarah thought her youngest son Dylan was just quiet and reserved. He wasn’t a boy of many words.

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Whenever Abby MacMillan falls asleep, she stops breathing.

Imagine.

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