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Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) has joined a growing list of hospitals across Canada, recently receiving a Level 1 Hospital Designation from Choosing Wisely Canada. The Choosing Wisely Canada (CWC) program is focused upon ensuring...
As COVID-19 hospitalizations and community based infections begin to stabilize in Kingston and the surrounding area, Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is once again pitching in to support hospitals in the Toronto area that are struggling with...
While most of the discussion during Ontario's third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has focused on bed space for critically ill patients, hospitals across the province are working hard to increase the number of staff to care for them. "A hospital bed...
In response to rising COVID-19 hospitalizations and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) occupancy, Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is postponing all elective surgeries and non-urgent procedures and clinic visits until the demands of the third wave have...
It's not unusual for a visit to a family physician to end in a referral to a specialist in the quest for more information or treatment for a specific condition or health concern. As patients across the country know, it may take some time before an...
Intensive care patients who survive a critical illness can experience weakness and other limitations to their function long after they leave hospital. Now a unique, multi-site study being conducted through the Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC)...
A new study out of Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is helping to shed some light on a serious but often misunderstood health condition. Delirium has been shown to have critical long-term impact on the most seriously ill patients, but still has...
As tick season gets underway, a research team at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is developing a simple tool to help doctors more quickly identify and treat Lyme carditis, a heart problem that has recently been linked to Lyme disease, a...
As tick season gets underway, a research team at Kingston Health Sciences Centre is developing a simple tool to help doctors more quickly identify and treat Lyme carditis, a heart problem that has recently been linked to Lyme disease, a bacterial...
After two long years mired in a pandemic, it's safe to assume that many people will be hitting the road this summer, taking advantage of the warmer weather and easing COVID-19 safety measures. That's especially true here in Southeastern Ontario where...