Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
CHEO is a pediatric health-care and research centre located in Ottawa, Ontario Canada. CHEO is also a tertiary trauma centre for children in Eastern Ontario, Nunavut, Northern Ontario and Western Quebec and one of only seven Level I trauma centres for children in Canada (others being The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, the Montreal Children's Hospital in Montreal, the Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine in Montreal, IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary, Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton, and BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver.) It is affiliated with The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa, and is funded by the provincial Government of Ontario. CHEO first opened its doors on May 17, 1974, and is located at 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario.
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  Location in Ottawa | |
| Geography | |
| Location | 401 Smyth Road Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8L1 |
| Coordinates | 45°24′04″N 75°39′05″W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Medicare |
| Funding | Public hospital |
| Type | Pediatric, Teaching, Specialist, Research |
| Affiliated university | University of Ottawa |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level I Trauma Center |
| Beds | 167 |
| Helipad | TC LID: CPK7 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1974 |
| Links | |
| Website | www.cheo.on.ca |
CHEO includes a hospital, children's treatment centre, school and research institute, with satellite services located throughout Eastern Ontario. CHEO provides excellence in complex pediatric care, research and education. CHEO is a founding member of Kids Health Alliance, a network of partners working to create a high quality, standardized and coordinated approach to pediatric health care, centred around children, youth and their families. Every year, CHEO helps more than 500,000 children and youth from Eastern Ontario, western Quebec, Nunavut and Northern Ontario.
In addition to its clinical mandate, CHEO is an academic health science centre. Each year, it provides education to 2,300 future pediatricians, nurses, and other health professionals. Driving innovations in health care, over 500 staff at the CHEO Research Institute make more than 700 medical discoveries per year, leading to the improvement of clinical care for children around the world.
Funding
CHEO is funded by the provincial government of Ontario as well as by a variety of public donations. One of the hospital's major sources of funding is the CHEO Foundation, which was incorporated in 1974.
Hospital characteristics (2019-2020)
- Services:[1]
- 6,623 admissions to CHEO
- 73,645 emergency department visits
- 7,783 visits to Surgical Day Care
- 179,394 ambulatory visits
- 11,319 visits to Medical Day Unit (i.e. oncology, dialysis, hematology, etc.)
- Facility: (2019–2020)[1]
- 167 inpatient beds
- 20 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
- 10 Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
- 112 Pediatrics, Oncology, Adolescent Medicine and Surgery
- 25 Psychiatry
- 73 outpatient specialty clinics
- Research Institute[1]
- 73,800 sq feet of research space
- 676 staff and trainees
- 299 scientists and clinical investigators
- 780 active research grants
- 634 active studies recruiting patients
- 546 publications
- 73,283 Patients & Families Involved in Research
- Personnel:[1]
- 1,856 administrative, service and allied health staff
- 679 nursing staff
- 318 physicians
- 700 volunteers
Timeline
CHEO was formed in 1974 due to the efforts of the community requesting a bilingual healthcare centre for children and the approval by the provincial government. The timeline indicates the year major areas of the hospital were established.[2]
- 1974 - Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario is opened to patients.
- 1975 - Pediatric Neurosurgery Program
- 1977 - Dental Clinic
- 1980 - Burn Treatment Centre
- 1981 - Sports Injury Clinic, Pulmonary Function Lab, Poison Information Centre
- 1983 - CTV Telethon is formed
The emergency entrance to Children Hospital of Eastern Ontario. - 1984 - Research Institute
- 1985 - Community volunteers build a Child Activity Centre
- 1988 - The first two bone marrow transplants in Canada using unrelated HLA compatible donors are performed at CHEO.
- 1989 - Neonatal Transport Team
- 1991 - Cardiovascular Surgery Program
- 1992 - Heliport is built
- 1996 - Youthnet/Réseau Ado, a mental health promotion program for youth
- 2001 - First phase of redevelopment project begins, the Telehealth program is formed
- 2004 - Apoptosis Research Centre
- 2005 - New state-of-the-art cauterization laboratory
A helicopter landing at CHEO. - 2006 - Lets Keep Kids Out Of The Hospital campaign, surgery virtual tour is created, Child Life Interactive Computers for Kids (CLICK) is introduced, Ontario's Newborn Screening Program begins, and Roger's House, a hospice for palliative pediatric care is opened
- 2007 - First Vertical Expandable Prosthetic Titanium Rib (VEPTR) in Ontario, eating disorders program is introduced
- 2008 - Parental Presence at Induction (PPI) is introduced, allowing parents to be with their children before and after surgery
- 2009 - Max Keeping Wing is opened, houses the emergency department, the neonatal and pediatric intensive care units and the medical day unit for children and youth afflicted with serious illnesses requiring outpatient treatments.
- 2009 - CHEO opens their off-site Centre for Healthy Active Living, with clinics focused on Obesity and Type II Diabetes
- 2019 - The Children's Hospital was rebranded with the name CHEO which no longer served as an abbreviation
See also
Notes
- "CHEO Website: Facts and Figures". Archived from the original on 2010-05-16. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
- "CHEO: Significant Milestones". Archived from the original on 2011-01-23. Retrieved 2011-02-16.
