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Newborn Screening Ontario
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Regional Treatment Centres

Babies who screen positive for one or more of the diseases tested are referred by Newborn Screening Ontario (NSO) to specialized follow-up centres called Regional Treatment Centres. If you are trying to locate a specific Regional Treatment Centre, please visit our Find a Follow-Up Centre page.

As a health care provider working at one of these centres, you are responsible for:

  • Confirmatory testing of babies who screen positive
  • Treatment and management of true positive cases
  • Providing follow-up outcome information to NSO
  • Education of local health care providers

In this section of our website, you will find helpful resources and communications about newborn screening in Ontario. If you can't find what you are looking for or have any suggestions about how we could better use this section of our website, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Screen Positive Follow-Up

Babies who screen positive for a disease on the blood spot portion of the newborn screen are referred to specialists in their region for follow-up testing, evaluation and care.

Find a Follow-Up Centre

Find the newborn screening Regional Treatment Centre in your area.

Disease Information

Information about the different diseases tested by Newborn Screening Ontario.