Due to scheduled maintenance on the hospital’s telephone system, inbound calls to the main hospital number will be impacted on Friday, Feb. 13, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. For urgent needs during this time, please call the emergency backup line: 416-467-7111.
A Holland Bloorview client had a passport photo rejected because his wheelchair headrest was visible. We look at how Canada singles out disabled people with onerous passport photo requirements.
Jacob Trossman goes to high school and loves being out and about in Toronto. But the supports that allow him to live at home are thin. In this video, his family talks about that bind.
Pandemic plans exclude people with certain disabilities from being triaged for a ventilator. COVID-19 efforts need to focus on creative ways to build our supply of ventilators and other intensive-care resources, not devising 'who comes first' lists, a Canadian ethicist says.
Sean Peacocke is the Manager of Strategy and the Centre for Leadership at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. He has worked in healthcare for 15 years primarily in Canada but also the United Kingdom, Qatar and Haiti. He started in clinical practice as a speech language pathologist in brain injury rehabilitation and in 2014 moved into strategic, clinical and research leadership.
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