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Kingston General Hospital has been recognized as having one of the top stroke programs in Canada after achieving the prestigious Stroke Services Distinction designation from Accreditation Canada. KGH becomes the second acute-care hospital in Canada...
Having celebrated Kingston General Hospital's 175th birthday back in 2013 most people know that we're an organization with a rich history. But another important milestone was recently commemorated at KGH that recognized our role in the foundation of...
The Kingston General Hospital Research Institute now has its own website. The site (www.kghri.ca), part of an overall website renewal project by Kingston General Hospital, focuses on research being done in the hospital by doctors and scientists, and...
Men with prostate cancer could soon know precisely how serious their disease is - and how aggressively to treat it - the moment they are diagnosed, thanks to a new team of researchers at Kingston General Hospital. "We hope to create a test so accurat...
Every day hundreds of specimens from patients are sent to our clinical laboratories for testing. All of them are important as they help decide the next steps in a patient's care plan. To ensure fast and accurate testing, KGH has been focused on...
Kingston General Hospital is celebrating Silver in the latest Quality Healthcare Workplace Awards. The annual awards were handed out at the Ontario Hospital Association's HealthAchieve conference earlier this month in Toronto. "A silver designat
With more and more women choosing to have children later in life, you might expect that Canadian healthcare practitioners would agree on the age at which expectant mothers should be screened for the risk of having a child born with a genetic...
Kingston General Hospital is taking advantage of another opportunity to put the spotlight on ways to deliver safe and quality care. Next week is Canadian Patient Safety Week across the country and our hospital has signed up to support it with a range...
Last month, 54-year-old Kim McCabe couldn't go more than two weeks without needing to see a physician. McCabe suffers from benign esophageal strictures - otherwise known as non-cancerous narrowing of the throat. It's a condition she's lived
Four years ago, we started a journey to transform the patient and family experience at our hospital. Our KGH 2015 strategy articulates a future that is bold, progressive and, dare we say, achievable - a future where KGH is standing out as a top...
