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The Kingston General Hospital established its training school for nurses in 1886 and the first class graduated in 1888. The nurses-in-training were originally given accommodation in the Watkins Wing, but the expansion of the program quickly...
X-rays first made their appearance in Kingston on February 17, 1896, when the Weekly Whig reported that Captain John Bray Cochrane (1860-1946), Professor of Physics and Chemistry at the Royal Military College, had taken an x-ray image of the hand of...
Before the late 19th century, only those who could not afford to be cared for in their homes sought charitable medical care in hospitals; but, as the practice of medicine underwent revolutionary changes in the 19th century, more and more people came...
Formally opened in October 1895, the Fenwick Operating Theatre cost $4,000 to build. Dr. Kenneth N. Fenwick, a Queen's Medical College professor and attending physician for the hospital had been requesting a new operating theatre for years and donate...
Chris Hammer likes to sum up the value of Kingston General Hospital's United Way campaign in just one word - impact. "I think that's the best way to describe the importance of this campaign," says Hammer, this year's United Way Ca
From the lab to the field to the hospital bed, researchers at Kingston's hospitals and Queen's University are once again depicting the fascination of their work through Queen's annual Art of Research photo competition. This year, to celebrate the...
Dr. Paula James, clinician scientist at the KGH Research Institute and one of Canada's leading researchers in inherited bleeding disorders, has been honoured with the Cecil Harris Award by the Canadian Hemophilia Society. The award is presented to a...
KINGSTON - A KGHRI clinician-scientist has been awarded $2.9 million to test whether a simple, inexpensive nutrient can improve the recovery of heart surgery patients. The four-year international study, led by Dr. Daren Heyland, will examine the...
An intensive care physician with the Kingston General Hospital Research Institute has been awarded $5.7 million to study the use of glutamine on patients with severe burns. Dr. Daren Heyland is lead investigator in the five-year study, which will...
KGHRI molecular geneticist and Queen's University cancer researcher Harriet Feilotter (Pathology and Molecular Medicine) is co-leading a multi-institutional study with Dr. John Bartlett of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) on the...
