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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...
As a valued volunteer at KHSC, Paul McLaughlin offers calm and steady support to families during some of the most difficult moments of their lives.
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...
At 21 years old, KHSC Security Guard Satwinder Singh already has a lifetime's worth of stories to share. In part, because his journey from Punjab, India to Kingston has been a winding one. At just 8 years old Singh became a volunteer soldier in the...
