Newsroom • We are also a teaching hospital with the majority of our paediatricians and obstetricians on staff at the University of Toronto. We are the largest community hospital to have a paediatric affiliation with the University. We are the number one community training site for paediatrics. • Our Paediatric Program includes high quality medical services, as well as a comprehensive mental health program. Services for children include a Regional Eating Disorders program, the Regional Childhood Obesity Program, a Regional Child Development Program, a Regional Child and Adolescent Mental Health Program. • The Tippet Foundation Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) provides specialized care for the one in ten premature babies of 30 weeks of gestation or older. The high level of care extends beyond the babies stay in the NICU to our Neo-Natal Follow-Up Clinic which identifies early concerns about a baby’s growth and development patterns. • The Charlotte and Lewis Steinberg Emergency at the hospital sees over 70,000 patients per year, almost a quarter of them children. In our state-of-the-art sub-acute area, five of the 44 new patient rooms are equipped with child-friendly flat screen televisions. The patient waiting room includes a child’s play area. • A paediatric surgery program is staffed by two fully trained fellowship surgeons and paediatric trained fellowship anesthesiologists. The hospital performs more than 3,000 operations annually on patients under 16 years of age, including ears, nose, throat and dental surgeries. • Our paediatric inpatient ward provides general paediatric and
subspecialty consultative care for children requiring admission for
medical and/or surgical reasons to over 600 children per year. • The hospital has attracted a high level of multidisciplinary staff and physician expertise in paediatrics including the following: 15 general paediatricians, 5 neonatolgists, 4 paediatric neurologists, 1 paediatric gastroenterologist, 2 paediatric surgeons, 2 paediatric nutrition specialists, 2 paediatric cardiologists, 3 adolescent medicine specialists, 5 child and adolescent psychiatrists, 1 behavioural paediatric specialist, 3 child development specialists, 1.5 eating disorder specialists, 1 asthma allergy specialist, 1 paediatric endocrinologist, 1 paediatric dermatologist, 1 paediatric infectious diseases specialist, 1 paediatric sports medicine specialist and 2 paediatric otolaryngologists. • North York General Hospital provides a wide range of services
for children from infants to adolescents including: For more information contact:
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