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Dealing with cancer treatment and the side effects that it can lead to - including hair loss - can be a difficult time for a person to go through. Recognizing the impact that a cancer diagnosis can have on self-esteem, a local wood turners club...
On behalf of the KGH Board of Directors and the Executive Team we would like to extend season's greetings to everyone who works, learns and volunteers at KGH as well as to our patients, their families and our community. For KGH, there is no doubt...
The holiday season is here again and on behalf of the KGH Board of Directors and everyone who works, learns and volunteers at our hospital, we are delighted to extend to you our warmest wishes. As another year draws to a close, we have been...
Dr. Alan Lomax, a scientist at Kingston Health Sciences Centre's gastrointestinal diseases research unit, has been awarded $790,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to study how the products of human gut microbes modulate the...
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...
A major milestone in the work to formally integrate Hotel Dieu Hospital (HDH) and Kingston General Hospital (KGH) has been achieved. Current HDH CEO and Inaugural CEO of the new Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC), Dr. David Pichora has announced...
A new kind of therapy is underway at our HDH site, and its three special practitioners--aka Oscar, Sophie and Arci--are scoring pats on the head wherever they go. A Golden Retriever, Gordon Setter and Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever respectively...
The six hospital organizations in the southeast have signed an agreement with Cerner Corporation (NASDAQ: CERN) to transform the experiences of those providing and receiving health care, with the implementation of a shared health information system...
With temperatures rising over the next few days, and a severe heat warning now in place, KHSC has put into place its extreme heat protocol to help protect vulnerable populations. The protocol is triggered when a heat warning is put in place in the...
A lot has changed since Ontario's Ventilator Equipment Pool (VEP) first opened its doors 25 years ago: if you wanted to use the internet you had to dial-up using a phone line, which would have made the real-time online interactive education sessions...
