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By CHEO - May 09, 2024

By CHEO - May 09, 2024

The Kids Come First Health Team is piloting the Kids Come First – Vaccinate & Up-to-Date campaign to help kids and youth, across eastern Ontario, catch up on their routine vaccinations. Read  By CHEO - Aug 08, 2023

April 28, 2023

The Kids Come First Health Team is transforming care for incredible kids like Chloe! Read 'Kids aren't just tiny adults': CHEO focuses on home care for children from the Ottawa Citizen about the Centre of Excellence and how it is bringing CHEO’s first-rate pediatric care into homes and communities across the region.

March 13, 2023

The Kids Come First Health Team, clinicians, parents and home-care agencies have launched an innovative training strategy to help tackle staff shortages and skills gaps. The goal of the new Centre of Excellence for Pediatric Home and Community Care Education is to build capacity, and better serve kids and their families in their homes and communities.

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February 23, 2023

On National Kids and Vaccines Day, partners of the Kids Come First Health Team are working together to provide a streamlined, easy-to-use system that will help families – especially those without access to primary care – catch up on routine childhood immunizations and can also send the records to local public health units, automatically.

In Ottawa alone, over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, kids have missed tens of thousands of doses of their routine series of vaccinations.

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September 23, 2022

This week marks one year of pediatric home and community care at CHEO and the benefits to thousands of children, youth and families are ones we can all celebrate.

Last September, the  By CHEO - Sep 23, 2022