Children’s Building - IWK Health Centre

The Allergy Clinic helps by treating children and youth with allergies to foods and/or medications, environmental allergies, allergies to latex

If your child has difficulty speaking or telling you their needs, wants, and ideas, then the Augmentative Communication Consultative Service

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is lifelong, neurodevelopmental, and a spectrum. ASD impacts how a person’s brain understands the world around

Families who have experienced the death of a child or pregnancy loss at IWK are offered IWK bereavement follow-up services

New - Effective April 5, 2023
Patients must bring their appointment confirmation number to their blood collection appointment. Confirmation numbers

The Brain Tumour Clinic provides specialized care for children and youth in the Maritimes who have a brain tumour.

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The Cardiac Sciences Program provides diagnostic, surgical, and follow-up services to patients and their families from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick

The chest clinic provides care to children in the Maritimes who have respiratory or breathing conditions.

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The Cleft Palate Clinic at IWK Health is a multidisciplinary team dedicated to providing optimal care for children and youth

The IWK's Clinical Nutrition Team helps by providing nutrition care, education, and counselling to IWK patients and their families while

The aim of the Complex Care Program is to provide responsive, integrated care for children with medical complexity.  The Complex

The Craniofacial Clinic is a multidisciplinary clinic whose focus is on treating children and youth with skull and facial differences

The IWK Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Clinic provides multi-disciplinary care for infants, children, and youth diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis. The clinic

The Dermatology clinic helps newborns and children who have diseases or conditions of the skin, hair and nails.

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Every year the Developmental Pediatrics Clinic helps about 1200 children and youth with a wide variety of neurodevelopmental disorders including

Pediatric diabetes helps by offering ambulatory care, Monday to Friday, for Type 1, Type 2, MODY, and neonatal

The ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat) service at IWK Health helps children and youth in the Atlantic Provinces who need

The Endocrine Clinic is an outpatient clinic that provides an initial assessment, treatment, teaching and follow up for children and

The IWK Health Centre Eye Clinic is a world-class facility, recognized internationally for excellence in patient care, research, and teaching

The General Surgery Clinic helps by assessing, managing, treating (medical and surgical) and following up with children and youth who

The Gastroenterology (GI) service, which includes the GI clinic, is a team of health professionals who help patients who have

The Hematology Oncology Clinic helps by providing specialized care for children and youth in the Maritimes who have, or may

The Immunology Clinic provides specialized care for children and youth in the Maritimes who need immunology care and follow up

The Infant and Preschool Rehabilitation service focuses on what’s important to families—we work with you to identify goals and find

The Infectious Diseases Clinic helps by providing specialized care for children and youth in the Maritimes who require infectious diseases

The staff of the Medical, Surgical, and Neurosciences Unit (MSNU) helps by caring for patients and families with a variety

IWK Health has the only specialized nephrology (kidney disease) service for children and youth in Atlantic Canada. The nephrology service

The IWK Health Neurology Team helps by caring for Maritime children who have a variety of conditions that affect the

The Neurosurgery clinic helps by consulting in the assessment, management, treatment (medical and surgical), and follow up of patients with

Newborn screening helps ensure the health of all newborns by testing them using four different types of screening tests.

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The NSIPP was created to help make sure that Nova Scotians with diabetes get access to the treatment options that

Occupational Therapy helps children and youth who have limitations in participating in day-to-day activities like feeding, dressing, working, playing, communicating

The Orthopaedic Clinic helps by treating children and youth in the Maritimes who have injuries and diseases that affect the

The IWK Health Centre Pediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT) is a consultative service dedicated to optimizing the wellbeing of infants

The Pediatric Complex Pain Clinic is a designed for children and youth (18 years) who have been living with

The Pediatric Consultation Clinic provides a comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up for children (up to age 16) with medical

The Pediatric Medical Unit (PMU) is patients from very young infants to teenagers who require hospital admission for a variety

The Pediatric Pain Management Program works together with pediatricians, surgeons, and family doctors to manage children’s pain after surgery or

The IWK Health Pediatric Perioperative Care Unit (PPCU) provides surgical care for children, youth, and their families requiring elective and

The Paediatric & Adolescent Gynaecology Clinic helps children and youth up to 18 years old with gynaecology-related diagnoses including menstrual

Physiotherapists at the IWK help women,children, and youth achieve their highest level of physical functioning by providing them with a

The Plastic Surgery Clinic helps by providing comprehensive care to infants, children, and adolescents with a diverse range of clinical

Recreation Therapy in Kids’ Rehab promotes quality of life for children and youth who have a physical or developmental disability

Kids’ Rehabilitation Services focuses on identifying the knowledge and skills that children and families need to manage daily activities at

The IWK Rheumatology Service helps by providing clinical care for children and youth living in the Maritime Provinces who have

IWK Specialty Seating, Rehabilitation Services helps reduce barriers to mobility by equipping clients with the customized seating required to help

The Suspected Trauma and Abuse Response Team (START) helps by providing compassionate and rapid assessment, management, and treatment to Maritime

The Urology clinic helps with the assessment, management, treatment (medical and surgical) and follow-up of patients with diseases of the