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

McMaster Children’s Hospital caring for more children with inflammatory bowel disease
HAMILTON, ON – May 19 is World IBD (inflammatory bowel diseases) Day, and experts at Hamilton Health Sciences’ (HHS) McMaster...

A blood transfusion alternative for hip dysplasia surgery at MCH
When Bella was 18-months-old, her parents began to worry because they noticed she wasn’t starting to walk. After voicing their...

Sisters inspired by type 1 diabetes diagnosis to pursue health-care careers
Hospitals have been part of Nicole Gelms’ life for as long as she can remember. The 21-year-old Smithville woman was...

Celebrating National Nursing Week
During National Nursing Week from May 8 to 14, we recognize more than 4,000 nurses at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS)...

Environmental stewardship is good medicine
Supporting green spaces If Dr. Myles Sergeant could write a prescription for Hamilton, it would contain an order for one...