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In a crowded conference room a hush falls over the crowd as one by one attendee's are called to the front and presented with a medal and certificate honouring them for a selfless act. This ceremony is the second time that a special evening has been...
Reid Gladman, a recent Queen's University graduate, remembers telling his parents that he was pretty sure he had a brain tumor after experiencing his first seizure in grade nine. Following an MRI in his hometown of Kamloops, British Columbia showed...
While the spirit of care and compassion takes the spotlight every holiday season, we're grateful and proud that the spirit lives year round at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC). This past year was no different. This spirit infused Transforming...
The calling to help others is a special bond that connects and motivates many people who work in healthcare. For two Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) physicians, this drive isn't just limited to patients in southeastern Ontario but has extended...
A little more than 20 years ago a conversation between an oncology nurse and a patient sparked an idea that has since benefitted thousands of women battling cancer across Canada, including here at Kingston General Hospital. The nurse was our CEO...
A multidisciplinary team of Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) staff were recently awarded a grand prize of $100,000 from Merck Canada and MaRS Discovery District (MaRS) Lung Cancer Innovation Challenge. The competition challenged innovators to...
If you spend much time around the main entrance to the hospital, you know it's a very busy place. Between all of the patients and families coming and going and vehicles dropping people off and picking them up, it can be a difficult area to navigate...
Want to track the movement of your baby before it's born? There's an app for that. How about keeping an eye on mom's health after that baby arrives? There's an app for that too and both of them were created by our own Dr. Graeme Smith
12-year old McKenna Modler talks with CEO Leslee Thompson after presenting a cheque to the Children's Cancer Care Fund at Kingston General Hospital worth just over $96,000. If anyone knows how difficult cancer treatment can be on children and their f...
As the largest acute care program at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC), the Medicine units that make up the department have the ability to improve the health outcomes of many patients. Before the Medicine program embarked on a quality...
