As of December 10, the Toronto Public Heath (TPH) has declared a Norovirus outbreak on the Complex Continuing Care (CCC) unit. Other inpatient units, outpatient clinics, community programs and activities are operating as usual. For more information, click here.
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'This film reminded me that healing and growth happen when we stop hiding parts of ourselves and let others in.'
Holland Bloorview has partnered with Magnet, an online employment platform, to bring together job-seekers with disabilities and employers...
I heard this amazing interview with Ron Buliung, a professor in transportation geography at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He's c...
I first met Yoonus Mia in 2003. I'd bump into him in the hospital walking beside a child in a helmet, feet strapped onto the pedals of an...
After her daughter Elizabeth was diagnosed with global developmental delay, Jean Hammond immersed herself at Holland Bloorview as a famil...
Superbabies Don't Cry is a brilliant essay about how the birth of a child with a chromosome deletion upended one mother's ideas about per...
When Bruno Geremia's son Matthew died two years ago, Bruno's sense of loss extended to the people he knew at Holland Bloorview during Mat...
By Rana Nasrazadani“You're not ready for university.”A staff member said this to me in high school, in front of the whole class. Thes...
I met Dolly Menna-Dack in 1999 when we interviewed her as a youth role model in BLOOM (then called Connections). At age three, Dolly, who...
Kimberley Siu-Chong (centre) is Holland Bloorview's touchpoint for feedback from families. As client- and family-relations facilitator, s...
This is a photo of Emily Chan last summer, when she participated in the Ward Summer Student Program in our research institute. Tonight sh...
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