About Children’s Hospital

When you walk through the halls at Children’s, you’ll see…

the tiniest baby getting round the clock care
a young girl with no hair and a swollen face going through cancer treatment
a little boy with lots of equipment by his crib while he waits for surgery
a young boy with cystic fibrosis getting chest percussion to help clear up the lungs

Children’s Hospital is the premier paediatric division of London Health Sciences Centre, the designated referral centre for specialized consultative medical care for children in the region, and the paediatric teaching hospital of the University of Western Ontario.

A world-class hospital, with the latest equipment and the best specialists, scientists and health professionals in Canada, Children’s provides an extensive range of specialities and subspecialties that are not available at a general hospital. Doctors and parents all over the region and other community hospitals count on the specialized expertise available at Children’s Hospital. This is where the sickest children are cared for.

Children’s has the expertise to care for the sickest or most critically injured child.

Children’s is one of five centres in the province where specialized paediatric health care occurs. Children’s provides a range of services for children from birth to age 17. The hospital and its staff and physicians are committed to family-centred and patient-centred care. Children’s has achieved a high degree of recognition for its specialized services and its multi-disciplinary approach to the care of children and families.

From life-saving liver and bowel transplants to state-of-the-art oncology and infectious disease programs, trauma and intensive care, Children’s Hospital provides the finest paediatric care available anywhere.

One of 5 centres in the province for specialized paediatric care, Children’s is the largest single site for acute hospital-based child health care in southwestern Ontario, serving a population of 1.5 million, with over 400,000 children.