Hospitals & specialty clinics

Ontario's five children's hospitals

• The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)

  Toronto

  Diagnosis and specialty care, including neurology, stroke, epilepsy surgery, newborn brain injury and a neuromuscular clinic.

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• McMaster Children's Hospital (Hamilton Health Sciences)

  Hamilton

  The regional children's hospital for south-central Ontario. Neurology, complex epilepsy, childhood stroke and spasticity care.

  Visit hamiltonhealthsciences.ca (opens in a new tab)

• CHEO

  Ottawa

  Eastern Ontario's children's hospital and trauma centre. It also runs the region's children's treatment centre.

  Visit cheo.on.ca (opens in a new tab)

• Children's Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre

  London

  Southwestern Ontario's children's hospital.

  Visit lhsc.on.ca (opens in a new tab)

• Kingston Health Sciences Centre (Kingston General site)

  Kingston

  Children's specialty care for Kingston and southeastern Ontario.

  Visit kingstonhsc.ca (opens in a new tab)

NICU and newborn follow-up

For babies who needed intensive care at or around birth.

• Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

  Toronto

  High-risk births, NICU and the neonatal follow-up clinic.

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• Mount Sinai Hospital (Sinai Health)

  Toronto

  High-risk births and NICU.

  Visit sinaihealth.ca (opens in a new tab)

• Neonatal follow-up clinics

  Province-wide

  Developmental checks after a NICU stay, usually to age two or three. Offered at SickKids, Sunnybrook, Mount Sinai, McMaster, CHEO, London and Kingston.

Community hospitals with children's programs

Often the first stop, and where many children are followed closer to home.

• Toronto

  Toronto

  North York General, Michael Garron, Humber River Health, Scarborough Health Network, Unity Health Toronto (St. Joseph's, St. Michael's).

• Greater Toronto Area

  Greater Toronto Area

  Trillium Health Partners (Mississauga), William Osler (Brampton), Halton Healthcare (Oakville), Mackenzie Health (Richmond Hill, Vaughan), Oak Valley Health (Markham), Southlake Health (Newmarket), Lakeridge Health (Oshawa).

• Hamilton, Niagara and Brantford

  Hamilton, Niagara and Brantford

  Niagara Health (St. Catharines), Brant Community Healthcare System.

• Southwestern Ontario

  Southwestern

  Windsor Regional Hospital, Waterloo Regional Health Network (Kitchener), Bluewater Health (Sarnia).

• Eastern Ontario

  Eastern

  Quinte Health (Belleville).

• Central Ontario

  Central

  Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (Barrie), Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, Peterborough Regional Health Centre.

• Northern Ontario

  Northern

  Health Sciences North and NEO Kids (Sudbury), Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, North Bay Regional Health Centre, Sault Area Hospital, Timmins and District Hospital.