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On June 19th the Co-Chairs of the Exceptional Healer Award Selection Committee were joined by the Chief of Staff in presenting the Exceptional Healer Award to two deserving recipients! The Exceptional Healer Award is a Patient and Family Advisory...
Driving along King Street, along the back of our Kingston General Hospital site, it may not be immediately obvious to spot the major changes happening inside KHSC's Diagnostic Imaging department. However, behind the grey exterior walls, a major...
World-renowned quality improvement strategists impressed by KGH When Kingston General Hospital CEO Leslee Thompson and Medicine Program Operational Director Richard Jewitt participated in a course at Intermountain Medical Center in Utah recently...
It's not unusual for 83-year old Barbara Pusch to venture out on a long bike ride -it's actually her goal to ride at least 10,000 kilometres each year. Unfortunately, Barbara's cycling season was cut short two weeks ago when she was hit by a vehicle...
If a health care professional at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) has provided you with excellent patient- and family-centred care, now is your chance to nominate that person for an Exceptional Healer Award. KHSC invites patients, family...
Palliative care and end-of-life issues have been headline news recently. Our aging population and the resulting strain on our health care system are raising questions about how and where we provide care. The proposed medically assisted dying bill has...
The outbreak of Influenza at KGH has been declared over. However, influenza is still present within our region. Family members and visitors to patients are asked to delay their visit if you they have had a fever within the last 72 hours or are...
A new joint study by a clinician-researcher at Kingston General Hospital and the University of Calgary aims to create a framework to assist intensive care physicians in partnering with patient's families, to enable and empower them as advocates and...
Patients, visitors and staff at Kingston General Hospital (KGH) got a real surprise when they looked out of their windows earlier this week. Suspended in mid-air were Batman, Superman, Spiderman and friends coming down the side of the hospital...
Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) has implemented the next phase of its COVID-19 staged de-escalation plan. Universal masking will no longer be mandatory in the Emergency Department (ED), Children's Outpatient Clinic (COPC) or the Urgent Care...