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

Knowing the SIGNS of severe illness
It can often be difficult to recognize the signs of severe illness in children. Dr. Mohamed Eltorki, pediatric emergency department...

With the upcoming snowstorm, remember snow safety and heart health tips
HAMILTON, ON – With the upcoming storm expected to drop a lot of snow on the Hamilton region in the...

Award-winning HHS clinics support young adult rheumatology patients
Award-winning clinics at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) are helping young adults with chronic rheumatic diseases manage their health conditions independently....

‘Dia-besties' manage their type 1 diabetes together
Like most kindergarten kids, classmates Julia and Ainsley were learning their ABCs and 123s. But the five-year-old girls were also...

Children’s blood vessel clinic at MCH provides life-changing birthmark treatments
Like most of us, Tim and Jennifer Robinson thought birthmarks were a discolouration on a baby’s skin that often faded...