Paediatrics
Nursery | Acute Care | Child Health Unit | Galaxy 12 | Child Minding | Telemedicine Lab | Surgery
Child & Adolescent Healthcare
Your Rouge Valley Health System offers a full range of key healthcare services. But we also specialize in a variety of areas – especially in child and adolescent healthcare.
At Rouge Valley you’ll find our physicians, healthcare professionals and staff are focused on the needs of patients and their families. This fact is very much in evidence in our paediatric care.
We offer paediatric care at both Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering and at Rouge Valley Centenary.
In fact, Rouge Valley Centenary hospital has been designated as the Regional Pediatric/ Perinatal Centre for East Metro, and is part of the Child Health Network with The Hospital for Sick Children. (Our Sickle Cell Clinic is also the result of a partnership with The Hospital for Sick Children.)
This means that specialty services are available for children closer to home. Sick newborns are cared for in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Rouge Valley Centenary, including babies requiring short-term ventilation or specialized monitoring.
A Special Care Nursery at Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering hospital cares for reasonably stable babies who may experience problems following birth, or sicker babies transferred in from other hospitals following stabilization.
A newly constructed four-bed acute care unit at Rouge Valley Centenary provides care to sick children, who require on-going monitoring and constant nursing care.
A brand new Child Health Unit at Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering facilitates inpatient and outpatient care to children, by dedicated paediatric professionals. This unit also provides paediatric observation capabilities formerly performed in the Emergency Department.
The Galaxy 12 Child & Adolescent Clinic at Rouge Valley Centenary provides outpatient sub-specialty services for children with heart problems, asthma, diabetes, kidney problems, digestive problems, nutrition concerns, and teen concerns from depression to acne. More than 2,300 children visit this clinic each year.
The Child Minding Centre at Rouge Valley Centenary makes it easy for parents to attend appointments with their children while leaving other siblings in the care of child life specialists and volunteers.
Consultations between physicians and other health care professionals at both Rouge Valley hospitals and at The Hospital for Sick Children are made easier through the use of a telemedicine lab.
Here professionals can transmit lab and x-ray results to one another and view each other on television monitors as they discuss specific cases. Patients can be brought into the lab to be virtually assessed by physicians at a remote location, avoiding unnecessary trips for parents and families and yet ensuring specialized advice.
