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She provides specialized addiction health care to clients who have stopped using substances and are in the earliest, most vulnerable stages of recovery. “I focus on keeping people safe and comfortable while their body clears the substance and starts...
Patients admitted to Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) for the behavioural and psychiatric symptoms of dementia are benefiting from four new rooms and care dedicated to their unique needs.
Every year, up to 20 secondary-school students from the Limestone District School Board enroll in the LINKS program, an alternative classroom designed to help youth who are unable to attend school due, in large part, to the complex mental health...
The Students Overcoming Anxiety and Rebuilding (SOAR) program is designed to help students in grades five through eight build their emotional awareness. For the past five years, through programming such as art workshops, it has also helped Dr...
The Mental Health and Addictions Care team at KHSC is researching the profound effects of music therapy on patients in the Burr 4 inpatient psychiatric unit.
A person could turn to substances for any number of reasons. In Simon Cashman’s case, it was an inability to cope with the many changes and stressors in his life.
For Eliot Leyenhorst, addiction care is about empathy. Read about his experience in KHSC's Detoxification Centre.
The 2025 initiative raised a record-breaking $230,108 in support of child and youth mental health programs at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC).
Dr. Chris Evans is no stranger to traumatic injuries. In fact, as the head of Kingston Health Sciences Centre's (KHSC) trauma service, he sees the impact they can have on patients and families every day. But a new study is shining the light on the...
While psychiatry, nursing, social work and occupational therapy are the common inpatient services available to people admitted to Kingston Health Sciences Centre's (KHSC) Mental Health Program at the Kingston General Hospital site, more therapeutic...
