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If you work or have appointments anywhere on the east side of Kingston General Hospital, the sound construction has likely become the background soundtrack of your life. The good news is that the noise means progress, as construction crews work their...

Learning that you have cancer and then waiting to hear about a treatment plan is a period of time fraught with anxiety and questions for many patients. However, a new multidisciplinary clinic for patients with lung cancer is working to eliminate that...

Kingston Health Sciences Centre's Rapid Access Clinic occupies an unassuming space on Johnson 7 at our Hotel Dieu Hospital site. When you enter the clinic, it looks just like the many others that are spread out across our two hospital sites, however...

Kingston General Hospital's clinical laboratories were put under the microscope recently, and came out shining, achieving a full four-year accreditation after a mandatory Ontario Laboratory Accreditation (OLA) process. A team of eight peer assessors...

Have you ever seen the Kingston bus advertisements seeking people with springtime allergies for a new research study? They come from our own Anne Ellis, director of the Allergy Research Unit and Environmental Exposure Unit (EEU) at KGH. She's a provi...

Award-winning actress Glenn Close dropped by Kingston General Hospital last week to take a tour of our Mental Health unit. Close, 66, was in town to receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Queen's University for her work in mental health and s...

It's estimated that there are roughly 35 thousand people in Canada living with some type of inherited bleeding disorder, however it's believed that most of them aren't even aware of it. A new online tool, launched this week by a KGH physician is...

Kingston General Hospital's Q2 performance report is now available online. One issue it draws attention to is the rise in the number of Code Gridlocks that have been called - one lasting up to 72 hours. It's a troublesome trend that has continue

An international charitable organization marked a big milestone at Kingston General Hospital last week. Liz Withers from Ryan's Case for Smiles visited the KGH Pediatrics Department to celebrate the donation of the organization's millionth pillowcase...

After a short hiatus over the holiday season, KGH's Communicate with HEART training program is back with sessions that resume in February and then continue into the summer. Communicate with HEART is a program created by the Cleveland Clinic. It's a...