About CHEO

CHEO is a precious resource in our community, one that not only cares for children and youth in our community and beyond, but that also plays a critical role in finding cures and improving the way pediatric health care is delivered the world over.
Some quick facts about CHEO:

1974

Year that CHEO began offering pediatric medical services for Eastern Ontario, Western Quebec and beyond.

160,000

Average number of children treated annually.

0

Number of hospitals in Ontario that have a higher volume of children’s hospital emergency room visits than CHEO.

28

Weeks of gestation at which some premature infants are born at CHEO.

18

Maximum age, in years, of a CHEO patient.

167

Number of inpatient beds at CHEO

20

Number of neonatal intensive care beds.

10

Number of pediatric intensive care beds.

1,000

Average number of University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine students/residents and interns in training.

112

Number of beds in pediatrics, oncology, adolescent medicine and surgery wards.

63

Number of outpatient specialty clinics.

25

Number of psychiatry beds.

8

Number of operating rooms.

112,000

Number of diagnostic MRI/Scans/X-Rays performed annually.

7,500

Average number of surgeries performed annually.

396

Number of physicians.

650

Number of nurses.

1,076,000

Number of lab tests performed annually

200

Number of researchers on staff at CHEO and the CHEO Research Institute.