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  Hospital for Sick Children - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They set up six iron cots and "declared open a hospital 'for the admission and treatment of all sick children.'" Their first patient, Maggie, was a scalding victim, and came in on April 3.
The hospital was an early leader in the fields of food safety and nutrition.
In 1908 a Pasteurization facility for milk was established at the hospital.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children   (705 words)

  
 Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children was founded in London in 1852, and whilst generally thought to be the first hospital specifically for...
The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children was founded in London in 1852 as the first hospital specifically for children in the English-speaking...
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity Runs an accommodation centre for parents staying with their sick children, supports research at the Institute of Child Health, and raises funds for medical equipment.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Great_Ormond_St_Hospital_for_Sick_Children.html   (1252 words)

  
 The Hospital for Sick Children - Canadian Enterprises   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The largest paediatric hospital in North America, The Hospital for Sick Children was opened in the spring of 1875 by Elizabeth McMaster and a group of friends in a small downtown Toronto house with 11 rooms which they rented for $320 a year.
Hospital physicians also pioneered renowned surgical developments, such as the Salter operation to repair dislocation of the hip and the Mustard operation to correct an often fatal heart defect.
The new facility has allowed the Hospital to continue its important commitment and encompassing mission: to continue to provide leadership in the paediatric health care field, joining with families as partners in care, while striving to be sensitive to the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of the multicultural community it serves.
www.canadianheritage.org /enterprises/hospitalforsickchildren   (457 words)

  
 Baptist Hospital East : Sick-child daycare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Baptist Hospital East employees can feel better when their children are sick, knowing they are just a few minutes away in a daycare setting created especially for children with mild illnesses.
Care is also provided for children with asthma, allergies or other respiratory illnesses; second degree burns, sprains and broken bones which have been in a cast or splint.
Children may be in the same room with other children wtih similar or like conditions.
www.baptisteast.com /Sick-child-daycare.cfm   (650 words)

  
 The Sick Kids Friends Foundation
The Sick Kids Friends Fo undation was set up in 1992 to support the work of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh.
Along with staff at the hospital, the Sick Kids Friends Foundation has identified a need for a Drop In Centre for children with life impacting and long-term conditions and their families.
Children and their families will visit the centre to gain information, support, Welfare Benefits advice, complimentary therapies, relaxation and stress management classes and also reassurance.
www.edinburghsickkids.org   (530 words)

  
 NEWS FROM THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
TORONTO - Scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (HSC) have compiled the complete DNA sequence of human chromosome 7 and decoded nearly all of the genes on this medically important portion of the human genome.
The Hospital for Sick Children, affiliated with the University of Toronto, is Canada's most research-intensive hospital and the largest centre dedicated to improving children's health in the country.
Due to the SARS situation and provincial directives affecting The Hospital for Sick Children, Dr. Scherer is available for phone interviews or for interviews in person outside of the hospital.
www.genomeprairie.ca /media/hospitalforsick.htm   (586 words)

  
 The Hospital For Sick Children   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Her loving concern for parents of children in HSC was greatly appreciated by those who received letters and photographs of their children while they were in hospital.
He and his colleagues at HSC were resolutely committed to its continuance as an independent hospital of the highest quality devoted exclusively to the care and treatment of sick children and to the training of medical and nursing specialists who would devote themselves to that objective.
Improvements to the hospital’s building in the early 1990s have made it one of the world’s most attractive and efficient centres for the treatment of the illnesses of children and for research into the diseases that afflict them.
collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume4/66-71.htm   (1585 words)

  
 The Hospital for Sick Children - Research
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is the largest paediatric academic health sciences centre in Canada, and one of the largest in the world.
Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and St. Michael’s Hospital have calculated that the annual cost of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder to Canadians is upwards of $344 million a year.
Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have determined that humidity is an ineffective therapy for the common childhood ailment croup.
www.sickkids.on.ca /research   (352 words)

  
 hospital for sick children
The Hospital for Sick Children is a health care, teaching and research...
The Hospital For Sick Children is dedicated to providing rehabilitation and transitional care to children and adolescents from infancy through twenty-one years of age.
The Hospital for Sick Children is accredited by the...
behavior.bettergpa.com /behavior-resources/hospital-for-sick-children.html   (554 words)

  
 The Hospital for Sick Children - Home
The Hospital for Sick Children, affectionately called Sick Kids, is one of the largest paediatric academic health science centres in the world, with an international reputation for excellence in health care, research, and teaching.
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), affiliated with the University of Toronto, is Canada's most research-intensive hospital and the largest centre dedicated to improving children's health in the country.
Copyright © 1999 - 2006 The Hospital for Sick Children.
www.sickkids.on.ca   (331 words)

  
 ISMAILI 10K RUN FOR CHARITY Supporting The Hospital For Sick Kids Sunday, June 20, 2004
The Hospital for Sick Children’s mission is to continuously improve the health of children everywhere, sharing experience and knowledge on children’s health with families and health care practitioners around the world.
Since 1875, The Hospital for Sick Children has contributed to countless advances in children’s health, and the lives of millions of children have been improved profoundly.
From the development of Pablum in 1930 to the identification of a gene that is important in the initiation of mudulloblastoma, the most common cancerous brain tumour found in children, The Hospital for Sick Children is at the leading-edge of pediatric research.
www.prweb.com /releases/2004/6/prweb134432.htm   (462 words)

  
 Art as Therapy (Wednesday 16 June 2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Hospitals, particularly surgery rooms, all too often have negative connotations, but the organisers of this project are confident that the installation of these works will prove a calming influence, as indicated by Laura O'Herlihy:
Involving staff and children in the creative process, she imprinted a series of hand and foot prints onto stainless-steel door-pushes.
Art connects children to delight and discovery and brings back some of the experiences of being a child, not just a sick child.
www.recirca.com /artnews/305.shtml   (612 words)

  
 Who We Are ?
Peter G. Chait is a Paediatric Interventional Radiologist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.
Bairbre L. Connolly is a Paediatric Interventional Radiologist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.
These patients, of necessity, are all admitted to the General Surgical Service at The Hospital for Sick Children, with all of the hospital care carried out by the Interventional Radiologists and their staff.
www.cecostomy.com /Introduction/authors.htm   (678 words)

  
 Hospital For Sick Children   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
They were diagnosed with the infection at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow but not admitted.
The Hospital for Sick Children is a hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that specializes in the treatment of children.
It is one of the largest children's hospitals in the world.
www.wikiverse.org /hospital-for-sick-children   (176 words)

  
 Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children - Media Room
Children attending Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children Crumlin enjoyed another Fun Day on board the Irish Navy Vessel LE Eithne today (Wednesday 11th May 2005).
Children attending Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children Crumlin enjoyed a Fun Day on board the Irish Navy Vessel LE Eithne today (Wednesday 16th February 2005).
A Hospital Watch Programme was launched at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children Crumlin on Thursday, 25th November 2004 at 11.30am by Assistant Garda Commissioner, Al Mc Hugh.
www.olhsc.ie /MediaRoom   (490 words)

  
 The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics Pda - Saunders Ltd. Adam, M.D. Cheng & Brent A.. MD Williams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics Pda - Saunders Ltd. Adam, M.D. Cheng & Brent A..
Book Description: The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics PDA is software designed for hand held devices to be a practical guide for diagnosis and management of pediatric patients in primary, secondary, and tertiary care.
Pediatrics, MedMark: The Hospital for Sick Children Tulane Hospital for Children...
www.skattabrain.com /css-books-plain/0920513700.html   (608 words)

  
 HSC Pediatric Center
HSC Foundation's Community Services Resource Directory is de-signed to help families with children with special needs.
As a community health provider, to ensure access to quality rehabilitative and specialty services for infants, children and adolescents with special needs and their families.
The HSC Pediatric Center is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO) and CARF (The Rehabilitation Accreditation Commission).
www.hfscsite.org   (316 words)

  
 The Hospital for Sick Children
Cognitive behavioural therapies (CBT) have been effective in children with anxiety disorders (Kendall et al 1994) and long term outcome has been shown to be favourable (Kendall 1996).
The goal is to teach children to recognise the signs of anxious arousal associated with speaking and social situations.
The central question raised by this case study is whether the improvements are the result of the treatment or part of the natural course of SM children.
www.homestead.com /quietroom/files/Case_study_of_BPH_5.htm   (2468 words)

  
 Crumlin Hospital says jobs will not be cut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
One of the country’s biggest children’s hospitals has insisted that it will not be cutting jobs to try and stay within budget this year.
The Foundation is completely separate to the management of the hospital and is charged with and aims to provide the necessary funding for supplementary equipment for the hospital as the needs arise.
I was reading in Yesterday Sunday Independent that out of 110,000 children treated in Crumlin there was 61 deaths in the hospital added to that the amount of children who died at home after being treated in Crumlin like children with cancer who have to be brought home as crumlin has no hospice facilities.
www.irishhealth.com /index.html?level=4&id=4961   (579 words)

  
 The Hospital for Sick Children - Palliative Care
Palliative Care at The Hospital for Sick Children is part of a continuum of care for children, youth and families facing any life threatening condition with the goal of enhancing choices, relieving suffering and ensuring the best quality of care during living, dying and grieving.
The Palliative and Bereavement Care Service at The Hospital for Sick Children is composed of an interdisciplinary team which includes: a clinical nurse specialist, a palliative care physician, a social worker/coordinator and a music therapist.
The Palliative and Bereavement Care Service is also dedicated to the professional development of health care providers and volunteers who care for dying children and their families, high quality research and evidence based practice and advocacy on behalf of children and families who face pediatric life limiting illness and conditions.
www.sickkids.ca /palliativecare   (309 words)

  
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The Royal Hospital for Sick Children (RHSC) is the principal children's hospital in the West of Scotland, and one of the three big paediatric centres (with GOS and Liverpool) in the UK.
It provides hospital care to the children of Glasgow and specialist tertiary care in many subspecialties including cardiology, oncology-haematology, renal disease and neonatal surgery.
The RHSC is part of the Yorkhill Division of Greater Glasgow NHS Board and encompasses the Queen Mother's Maternity Hospital, West of Scotland Regional Genetics Service and the Community Child Health Services.
www.gla.ac.uk /departments/childhealth/rhsc.html   (105 words)

  
 Hospital for Sick Children Foundation
Projects must have significant potential to have a direct impact on outcomes for the treatment of children.
Projects must be relevant to the health of Canada's children and significant in terms of their potential impact on health outcome
Researchers may obtain up to two years' support for projects that are directly relevant to the health of Canada's children and significant in terms of their potential impact on health outcome.
secure.cihi.ca /cihiweb/dispPage.jsp?cw_page=cphi_research_nat_sickkids_e   (202 words)

  
 HepNet:THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN HEPATITIS C NOTIFICATION PROJECT CONTINUES; 1,000 ADDITIONAL LETTERS ARE SENT
If testing determines that a child is infected with hepatitis C, his parents are encouraged to call the Transfusion Information Line at The Hospital for Sick Children to arrange an appointment with a hepatologist (a specialist in diseases of the liver).
By registering in the program, children with hepatitis C can derive the greatest benefit from early intervention - like lifestyle counseling - to better manage the disease and their health.
Children may have an active infection yet not exhibit symptoms for many years.
www.hepnet.com /hepc/hsc2.html   (508 words)

  
 The Hospital for Sick Children - Anaesthesia
The Department of Anaesthesia at The Hospital for Sick Children
The Hospital for Sick Children is a designated paediatric trauma centre for the
Staff Anaesthesiologists engaged in clinical and basic science are cross appointed to The Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children.
www.sickkids.on.ca /anaesthesia   (205 words)

  
 Affinium(TM) Pharmaceuticals and The Hospital for Sick Children Announce Membrane Protein Proteomics Initiative Funded ...
An inherited mutated CFTR gene produces a form of the CFTR protein that is retained inside of cells rather than mobilized to the cell surface, and is the most common mutation associated with the CF condition.
The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute is a world-class scientific research centre performing fundamental and clinical research leading to the improved understanding, prevention, treatment and care of children's diseases.
The Hospital for Sick Children, affiliated with the University of Toronto, is the largest pediatric academic health sciences centre in Canada and one of the largest in the world.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-06-2002/0001721859&EDATE=   (527 words)

  
 The Hospital for Sick Children information and related industry information from Hoover's
The Hospital for Sick Children, also called Sick Kids for short, is a pediatric hospital that's affiliated with the University of Toronto.
The Hospital for Sick Children is funded primarily by the Canadian government, and it also receives support from the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation.
The hospital has a long history, having been established by a group of women in Toronto in 1875, and is now part of the Ontario Children's Health Network, a partnership between the city's six pediatric hospitals.
www.hoovers.com /sick-kids/--ID__139106--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml   (362 words)

  
 Sick Kids researchers identify gene for Shwachman-Diamond syndrome
Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (HSC) and the University of Toronto (U of T) have identified the gene that is altered in Shwachman-Diamond syndrome.
Other members of the research team are Jodi Morrison, Maja Popovic, Nicole Richards, and Lynda Ellis, all from The Hospital for Sick Children.
Further information for families affected by Shwachman-Diamond syndrome is available on the HSC Web site at http://www.sickkids.ca/mediaroom/custom/SDSgeneQA.asp.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-12/uot-skr122002.php   (517 words)

  
 General Surgery > Education > Hospital for Sick Children Hospital for Sick Children
To become familiar with the recognition, natural history, and general and specific treatment of those pediatric surgical conditions that one would expect to encounter in a general surgery practice in a community lacking the immediate availability of a pediatric surgeon.
To learn to provide resuscitation and emergency treatment for the unstable child with complex surgical problems which require transport to a specialized centre for definitive treatment.
During the rotation, the resident will assist in the operating room, and is expected to develop the following abilities: to anticipate surgical maneuvers, to handle tissues gently, to make reasonable suggestions and ask intelligent questions, and to contribute to a postitive operating room atmosphere.
www.surg.med.utoronto.ca /gen/hosp_sickkids.html   (811 words)

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