SickKids
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Ontario pediatric hospitals ask for help to deal with backlog of 12,000 surgeriesChildren's hospitals had a meeting on Thursday with Ontario Health as part of a new 'surgical access' table in an effort to figure out how to tackle the surgical backlog.HealthJan 22
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CHEO treating older teens again, says surge in respiratory illnesses is stabilizingCHEO says it's providing emergency and inpatient care to all 16- and 17-year-olds again after diverting them to adult hospitals in the Ottawa area in November.CanadaJan 17
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SickKids hospital to begin ramping surgeries back up as respiratory surge abatesSickKids decided to ramp down surgeries in mid-November in order to redeploy staff to its overwhelmed intensive care unit and emergency department.HealthJan 13
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Why are there so many cyberattacks lately? An explainer on the rising trend'They're increasing across western democracies,' Finlay says. 'This is a serious problem, a serious challenge, that is becoming increasingly severe.'CanadaJan 13
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Toronto hospital network issues ‘code grey’ as digital systems go downA major Toronto hospital network said its digital systems went down on Monday and it was working to investigate what was causing the outage.HealthJan 10
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Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto says most systems back after ransomware attackOn Saturday, LockBit, a ransomware group the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has called one of the world's most active and destructive, issued a brief apology.CanadaJan 5
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Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children takes down websites over ‘unusual activity’The hospital says it pulled the websites proactively Friday night for the Specialty Food Shop and the Infant and Early Mental Health Promotion, both operated by SickKids.HealthJan 1
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Ransomware attack delays Toronto’s SickKids lab results, systems could be offline for weeksToronto's Hospital for Sick Children says some of its systems could be offline for weeks after it was the subject of a ransomware attack.HealthDec 22, 2022
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SickKids reports cybersecurity incident, affecting some phone lines and web pagesToronto's Hospital for Sick Children says it's responding to a cybersecurity incident affecting some of its phone lines, web pages and clinical systems.HealthDec 20, 2022
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Inside SickKids: As the operating room sits quiet, staff worry about growing backlogThe hospital needed those specialized staff, especially nurses, to parachute into the emergency department and ICU to help stabilize a precarious situation.HealthDec 14, 2022
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