Paediatric Surgery As a Regional Children's Health Centre in the Child Health Network for the Greater Toronto Area, we offer one of the widest and most comprehensive ranges of services for children and adolescents in the city. We are a major centre for paediatric surgery. Through an evolving partnership with the Hospital for Sick Children, currently in the implementation stage, we will increase North York General Hospital's ability to meet our community's paediatric surgical needs, closer to home. Increased surgeries will mean shorter wait times for children. We perform more than 3,000 operations annually on patients under 16 years of age. Available specialists include experienced paediatric general surgeons, paediatric anesthesiologists, otolaryngologists, dental and maxillofacial surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, and plastic and reconstructive surgeons. To reduce fear in children who will need surgery, we offer a Pre-op Class and Paediatric Tour. Before surgery, children and parents go to our paediatric waiting room Grace's Place, where they will be joined by a health care professional. Parents can walk with their child as far as the operating room door. Later, one parent can rejoin their child in the recovery room. |