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When the Ottawa REDBLACKS kicked-off their Canadian Football League season earlier this month, they had a former Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) employee in uniform. During the team's extended offseason, Redblacks kicker and Kingston native...
Even though she was a long way from a NICU, Lindsey’s years of skills and training immediately kicked in when she needed to help deliver a baby aboard an international flight.
Problem solver - that's one way to describe Lori Silva. She's the charge technologist at Breast Imaging Kingston, a state-of-the-art facility which offers screening and precision diagnosis of breast cancer. Silva wears many hats to ensure the centre...
Every shift Marcel Cernik averages about 16 thousand steps, but some days it can get as high as 34 thousand if he works overtime. He's a porter at our Hotel Dieu Hospital site and has been for the last 16 years. Cernik is on his feet 24/7 and every...
Having worked at KHSC for 13 years, carpenter Mike Berry knows our Kingston General Hospital site like the back of his hand. However in 2013 he began to see the hospital from a whole new perspective...as a patient. Shortly after the birth of his son...
Celebrating his authentic self is something Nicholas Axas believes in doing every day, not just during Pride Month in June. Ditto, he says, for his workplace at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC), where he serves as operational director of the...
When he was growing up on Montreal's west island, Renaud Golsse never envisioned a career in health care. In fact, he had something quite different in mind. But sometimes life has a funny way of making sure you end up right where you need to be....
It takes all kinds of people to keep a hospital running and offering the highest level of patient and family-centred care. From doctors and nurses, to dieticians, physiotherapists, social workers, porters and environmental services staff, everyone...
Many of the activities that are part of a daily routine - like going to the bathroom, getting dressed, or taking a shower- can be impacted by illness or injury and a subsequent hospital stay. That's where occupational therapists like Sara FitzPatrick...
As a health-care worker, Sarah Moore-Vasram says, "my influence on people's health is limited. So much of what determines someone's overall health is social in nature and beyond what I can do in health care. The conditions in which people are born...
