Saving Waylon

When Waylon fell through an ice-covered pool at his babysitter’s house, it took an entire community to save him – including you.

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Curing Epilepsy with Expert Skills and Donor-funded Equipment

In 2021, Children’s Health Foundation donors fully funded the ROSA One Brain Robotic Arm, a state-of-the-art piece of equipment, made specifically for paediatric patients. The addition of the ROSA One Brain Robotic Arm for Children’s Hospital’s Paediatric Epilepsy Program – one of only two Regional Epilepsy Surgery Centres of Excellence in Ontario – has been transformational.

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High School Students Transform Paediatric Inpatient Unit

In early 2022, John Paull II Catholic Secondary School art teacher Christine Mancini received a text from her friend Ashley Stephen, a nurse in the Paediatric Inpatient Unit at Children’s Hospital. Ashley had a question for Christine: would her students be interested in creating some fun murals for the unit?

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Getting Kids Closer to The Care They Need

This week, YOU can help kids like Hunter get closer to the care they need. Donate your Aeroplan points during Air Canada’s Aeroplan matching week October 2 to 8 and help ensure kids from all over Western Ontario have access to leading-edge care.

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You helped Juliana Embrace Her Story

She is overjoyed to be here and is so grateful for the expertise of Children’s Childhood Cancer program, Children’s life-enriching patient support programs and the chance to make a positive impact with her story. 

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Children’s Health Foundation receives the Children’s Miracle Network Award for Canada’s Hospital Foundation of the Year.

Children’s Health Foundation, fundraising partner to Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre, TVCC and Children’s Health Research Institute, has been awarded Canada’s Hospital Foundation of the Year at this year’s Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Conference in Orlando, Florida. This honour is reserved for one children’s hospital foundation and recognizes their […]

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ECG Machines help transform health care for kids like Tia

Performing life-saving tests and procedures on babies as small as Kayleigh requires specialized equipment like the NICU shuttle that allows infants to remain connected to IV pumps, isolettes, and more while on their way to CT scans, MRIs, or other treatments and procedures. Thank you Rona for helping us purchase this life-saving piece of equipment!

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Meet our 2023 Children’s Miracle Network Champion Child

Kshitij was just five-years-old when his family noticed something wasn’t quite right – he was falling while walking. His family was stunned to find out his diagnosis of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), which causes muscle weakness throughout the body. “When our little boy was suddenly diagnosed with DMD, we didn’t […]

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The NICU Shuttle helps transform health care for kids like Kayleigh

Performing life-saving tests and procedures on babies as small as Kayleigh requires specialized equipment like the NICU shuttle that allows infants to remain connected to IV pumps, isolettes, and more while on their way to CT scans, MRIs, or other treatments and procedures. Thank you Rona for helping us purchase this life-saving piece of equipment!

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Supporting Our Kids When Emergency Strikes

Grateful DiCecco Family and St. Mary’s Knights of Columbus (Nobleton, ON) Joseph DiCecco loved snowmobiling, hockey, boating and life at the cottage. From the time Joseph could walk, he enthusiastically worked right by his father’s side at the family business, Greenside, a very busy and well-known landscaping company. Joseph’s much-loved […]

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Cordelia’s Early Diagnosis Saved Her Life

Before Cordelia was born she was a patient with Children’s Hospital. Following her mother’s 20-week ultrasound they were immediately referred to Paediatric Cardiology at Children’s Hospital. Using a state-of-the-art echocardiography machine, Cordelia’s health care team at Children’s performed a fetal echocardiogram – a specialty ultrasound – to confirm that she […]

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