McMaster Children’s Hospital (MCH) has been providing comprehensive care to children from across South-Central Ontario since 1988. Here, patients from infancy to 17 receive care through a family-centred approach that accounts for the child’s emotional, mental and physical well-being. The hospital is home to the fastest-growing kids-only emergency department in Ontario, Canada’s largest neonatal intensive care unit, and Ontario’s largest inpatient child and youth mental health unit. It offers a full range of programs and clinics with unique expertise in a number of areas including: children’s cancer, digestive diseases, orthopedics, neurosurgery and mental health.
Health Care at McMaster Children's Hospital
Children with complex conditions get faster access to therapy
Thanks to recent provincial investment, kids and families at Hamilton Health Sciences’ McMaster Children’s Hospital’s (MCH) medically complex care program...
“I changed my goal from saving his life to saving his childhood.”
Ten-year-old Meric has a rare life-limiting disease that requires frequent monitoring and care by a team of health care providers,...
MCH program brings emergency expertise to community hospitals on demand
Imagine your child is rushed to your local emergency department under life-threatening circumstances. Their heartbeat or breathing has stopped, so...
Ontario Expanding Access to Pediatric Palliative Care in Hamilton
$2.5 million investment will help build new children’s hospice with 10 beds The Ontario government is investing up to $2.5...
HHS tests new technology for advancing inclusive, equitable care
An imaging device developed by an Ontario start-up company is being studied at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) to see if...