Milestones Newsletter

March 2023 | Issue 2 Unable to attend one of PCMCH’s recent Paediatric Diabetes and Paediatric Obesity Management webinars? Not to worry – recordings of the following webinars are now available on our website: Evaluation of a Province-Wide Type 1 Diabetes Care Plan for Children in the School Setting Traditional Knowledge-based Lifestyle Interventions in the […]

March 2023 | Issue 2 Neonatal follow-up plays a critical role in Ontario’s healthcare system, monitoring and offering early intervention for high-risk infants with varying diagnoses. In 2017, PCMCH developed resources to support standardization and collaboration across clinics in Ontario, and also support parents and families to help them better understand their journey through the

March 2023 | Issue 2 Established by PCMCH in 2021, the Regional Networks Operational Forum (RNOF) is a provincial community of practice that supports local planning, coordination among healthcare providers, and implementation of provincial standards and guidelines in Ontario. Comprised of the six perinatal-newborn-child health regional networks, Ontario Health regions, PCMCH and BORN, its aim

March 2023 | Issue 2 Three new Disability and Pregnancy resources are now available to support healthcare providers, administrators and pregnant people with disabilities. Over the last year, PCMCH collaborated with Dr. Hilary Brown, Dr. Yona Lunsky, Dr. Lesley Tarasoff and their team from the University of Toronto to develop evidence-based resources that support healthy

Milestones is our newsletter for healthcare professionals, policy makers, system planners and anyone interested in building and supporting high-quality perinatal, newborn, child and youth healthcare in Ontario. In each issue, you will learn about developments at PCMCH, read about and learn from healthcare leaders across Ontario who support us in our work, and get access to useful

Issue 1 | October 2022 Clinical Handbook for Paediatric Asthma Updated clinical recommendations to assist healthcare providers in treating young patients with asthma have been released by PCMCH in partnership with the Lung Health Association. The Clinical Handbook for Paediatric Asthma is a compendium of evidence-based rationale and clinical consensus for emergency department and in-patient

Issue 1 | October 2022 Easing Transitions to the Adult Care System Earlier this year, two new resources that support collaboration between youth, families and healthcare providers when a youth transitions from the paediatric to the adult healthcare system were released: The Transitions from Youth to Adult Health Care Quality Standard, released by Ontario Health

Issue 1 | October 2022 Sharing EDI Insights Ontario is home to a highly diverse population. It is essential that organizations like PCMCH foster engagement with diverse communities and reflect input from different perspectives at our Governing Council, committees and working groups. Such diversity at our tables, in ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, disability, geography and