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From our Operating Rooms, to our inpatient rooms, to our busy lobbies, Kingston General Hospital recently put our cleaning performance to the test and we came up with some impressive results. Independent auditors from Westech were at KGH for four...
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
Kingston General Hospital is always looking for new ways we can become a cleaner and greener hospital. To help measure how we are doing, each year we put our environmental performance to the test by participating in the Green Hospital Scorecard that...
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
This June, enthusiastic Kingston General Hospital staff members will be up all night walking the track at the Royal Military College. It's all part of the annual Relay for Life fundraiser, a collaboration between the Canadian Cancer Society, KGH and...
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...
There is no doubt a picture can be worth a thousand words, and this year we have created a special annual report that makes the most of the photographs we have captured over the past year. KGH This Year takes a colourful look back at the 2015-16...
A new space in the Burr wing here at Kingston General Hospital will soon be the home to an outpatient treatment program for mental health patients who have been recently discharged from the hospital. The Intensive Transitional Treatment Program (ITTP...