Board Director
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)

Twice named the best place to work in Canadian healthcare by Forbes, CHEO is building on its momentum and embarking on a multi-year campus redevelopment plan that will modernize, improve, and expand its capacity to connect care for children and youth with complex medical, developmental, behavioural, and mental health needs.

Success of this and other innovative initiatives will require a team effort and a CEO who can confidently, astutely, and collaboratively lead an expansive and dynamic operation, and navigate a complex ecosystem that spans local, regional, provincial, national, and Indigenous communities, organizations, and governments. Under the broader CHEO umbrella, these include the CHEO Foundation and donors, the CHEO Research Institute, the Kids Come First Health Team, and the Children’s Hospital Academic Medical Organization (CHAMO). Externally, its partners include Children’s Health Coalition, Provincial Council on Maternal-Child Health, Children’s Healthcare Canada, many medical and healthcare partners, community partners, federal/provincial/territorial government ministries and agencies, and the Premier’s office.

For half a century and beyond, CHEO redefines what it means to be a hospital—because KIDS THESE DAYS deserve the most innovative care available. To learn more about CHEO's Strategic Plan, please view the PDF attached below:

Partnerships

CHEO is a founding member of the Kids Come First Health Team. Kids Come First includes over 60 organizations, family and youth partners, nearly 1,100 physicians, and thousands of individuals including children, youth and families. As one of the member organizations, CHEO will deliver services in ways that matters to children, youth, and families and we will work with our partners to do the same.

CHEO is also a member of the Kids Health Alliance, a network of partners working to create a high quality, standardized and coordinated approach to pediatric health care in Ontario that is centred around children, youth and their families. 

CHEO partners with organizations in Nunavut, Northern Ontario and western Quebec, as well as throughout Eastern Ontario. 

To learn more about CHEO's partners, click here.

Beyond Ottawa

CHEO has satellite services located throughout Eastern Ontario, and partners with organizations in Nunavut, Northern Ontario and western Quebec, as well as throughout Eastern Ontario.

CHEO hosts a number of provincial and federal programs:

• Better Outcomes Registry & Network Ontario
• Newborn Screening Ontario
• Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
• National Newcomer Navigation Network

Integrated Treatment Centre (1Door4Care)

A once in a generation investment to improve health services for children and youth.

CHEO currently has more than 10 locations across the greater Ottawa area providing a wide range of programs and services including acute care, Mental Health, Neurodevelopmental Health, Development and Rehabilitation and more. As part of their mission to right-size pediatric care, CHEO is growing their spaces and relocating more of their programs and services to the main CHEO campus.

Tune in here for the latest updates on the construction of the CHEO Integrated Treatment Centre (also known as 1Door4Care), expansions within the main CHEO campus, external campuses and more.

Some Basics

Founded in 1974, CHEO’s principal funders are the people of Ontario through their provincial government’s ministries of Health, Children, Community and Social Services, and Education. CHEO's services are also made possible by funding from the governments of Quebec, Nunavut and the City of Ottawa — as well as by generous donors in the community. To learn more about this funding, visit the CHEO Foundation page.

CHEO is:

• 3,200 doctors, nurses, other specialized health professionals and staff
• 250 researchers
• 700 volunteers
• 2,300 trainees in medicine, nursing and other health professions

Every year, CHEO has more than:

• 6,700 admissions
• 7,700 surgeries
• 75,000 visits to the Emergency Department
• 180,000 visits to their outpatient clinics

Every year, CHEO helps more than:

• 500,000 children and youth from Eastern Ontario, western Quebec, Nunavut and Northern Ontario. 

CHEO's Clinics, Services and Programs:

• a specialized acute-care hospital
• a school and preschool
• an autism service provider
• a child and youth mental health agency
• a children’s treatment centre
• a research institute
• a rehabilitation service
• a pediatric palliative care hospice
• a school health provider
• a service coordinator with community providers
• a genetics program
• a training and education centre for health professionals

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