POGO’s Provincial Pediatric Oncology Satellite Program transfers aspects of a child’s care, for eligible patients, to a community hospital closer to home. POGO Satellite Clinics are located in areas where the caseload is large enough to maintain the expertise needed, and where patient travel, cost and family disruption will be reduced. All children will continue to be diagnosed in tertiary programs which will develop, monitor and modify their individual treatment plans throughout the course of their care.
The POGO Satellite Program:
- Selects and develops satellite sites, increasing each community hospital’s capacity to provide complex cancer treatment
- Evaluates satellite sites on an ongoing basis to ensure that the care provided is equivalent to the care provided by tertiary care centres
- Enables Ontario’s five hospitals with specialized childhood cancer programs (tertiary centres) to increase their capacity to provide more complex treatment and/or monitoring
- Updates community hospital operational standards and guideline documents
- Provides frequent educational opportunities for staff, including POGO Satellite Education Days
“The bottom line is that services provided closer to home enable a family to have more support from family and friends. They are able to sleep in their own beds, be surrounded by their own community and be together as a family unit; many of the things that add up to normalcy and quality of life.”
– Vicky Wilton, POGO Interlink Nurse
POGO Satellite Clinics are located at the following sites.
Kitchener-Waterloo
Waterloo Regional Health Network (formerly Grand River Hospital)
POGO Satellite Nurse Coordinator
Phone: (519) 749-4300, ext. 3571
www.wrhn.ca
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Mississauga
Trillium Health Partners, Credit Valley Hospital Site
POGO Satellite Nurse Coordinator
Phone: (905) 813-1100, ext. 5017
www.trilliumhealthpartners.ca
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Newmarket
Southlake Health (Formerly Southlake Regional Health Centre)
POGO Satellite Nurse Coordinator
Phone: (905) 895-4521, ext. 2231
www.southlake.ca
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Orillia
Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital
POGO Satellite Nurse Coordinator
Phone: (705) 325-2201, ext. 3635
www.osmh.on.ca
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Peterborough
Peterborough Regional Health Centre
POGO Satellite Clinic Nurse
Phone: (705) 743-2121, ext. 3038
www.prhc.on.ca
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Scarborough
Scarborough Health Network, Centenary Hospital
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Phone: (416) 284-8131, ext. 7191
www.shn.ca
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Sudbury
Northeast Cancer Centre, Health Sciences North
POGO Satellite Nurse Coordinator
Phone: (705) 523-7118
www.hsnsudbury.ca
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Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
POGO Satellite Nurse Coordinator
Phone: (416) 356-8371
www.tbrhsc.net
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Windsor
Windsor Regional Hospital, Metropolitan Campus
POGO Satellite Nurse Coordinator
Phone: (519) 254-5577, ext. 53109
www.wrh.on.ca
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POGO Satellite Education Days for Healthcare Professionals
These educational opportunities are for healthcare professionals working with pediatric cancer patients in community hospitals, and cover all aspects of pediatric cancer care.
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