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
Elizabeth’s dance with scoliosis
Elizabeth Rzepczyk’s life took an unexpected turn when, at the age of 11, she was diagnosed with scoliosis, a sideways...
Nerve freezing technology a game-changer for MCH patients
Mississauga teenager Brandon Philip was interested in elective surgery to correct a bowl-like cavity in his chest caused by pectus...
Quicker surgeries, quicker recoveries from home
Broderic Hadath has had four previous surgeries at McMaster Children’s Hospital to repair his clubfoot, a fairly common birth difference....
Hamilton Public Health and Brant County Health Unit investigating exposures to confirmed case of measles
Hamilton Public Health Services and Brant County Health Unit are investigating exposures in Hamilton and Brantford related to a confirmed...
Ontario’s Children’s Hospitals rename cardiac procedure to recognize critical role of Black pioneer Vivien Thomas
In a move to honour the groundbreaking contributions of Black surgical pioneer Vivien Thomas, Ontario’s five children’s hospitals have officially...