Clinical Specialist

Unit Summary

McMaster Children’s Hospital (MCH) is part of the Hamilton Health Sciences’ family of hospitals and provides care to children aged 0-18 years and serves a population of 2.3 million in Southern Ontario and beyond. Quality of Life and Advanced Care (QoLA Care) offers specialist pediatric palliative care consultation services across the region and is a part of the Child and Youth Acute Care Program at McMaster Children’s Hospital. It is also affiliated with the Department of Pediatrics and the Division of Palliative Care, Department of Family Medicine, at McMaster University.

Pediatric Palliative Care (PPC) is “an active and total approach to care provided to children with life-threatening conditions and their families from the time of recognition or diagnosis of disease, throughout the illness, at the time of death and beyond. It is typically provided by an interprofessional team with consideration give...