Day Hospital

The Day Hospital provides an alternative to hospitalization for patients with ongoing medical problems requiring day treatments or investigations and who do not require 24-hour medical and/or nursing monitoring. 

Services

We work towards:

• Completing treatments safely and effectively while allowing the child to sleep at home.
• Providing an environment of care for children followed by sub-specialty services requiring chronic long-term therapies, e.g. IVIG, enzyme replacement therapies, IV antibiotics, etc.
• Providing specialized nursing care for children requiring assessments, investigations, day treatments, teaching and coordination of care activities.
• Offering an alternative to Emergency Department visits and/or hospitalization for children referred from the community for investigations and/or urgent subspecialty consultations.
• Reassessing children referred from the Emergency Department requiring outpatient intravenous antibiotic therapy for skin and soft tissue infection, UTI, refractory acute otitis media or to complete work-ups for some cases of suspected bone infection. 

Team

The Day Hospital team consists of a pediatrician, medical and nursing trainees, pediatric nurse clinicians, a nursing assistant and a secretary.

Administrative team