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Patients on Kidd 6 at Kingston General Hospital are going to notice a change in their care this week as a pilot project brings patient-centred care right to the bedside. It's a new approach to the end-of-shift reports that take place every time one n...
For more than a year and a half, Kingston's COVID Assessment Centre has played a major role in protecting our community from COVID-19. But as the number of cases continue to grow in our region, due to the Omicron variant, the AC team is now busier...
If Silvie Crawford, Executive Vice-president and Chief Nursing Executive of Patient Care Programs had to choose two characteristics that unite people working in health care, she would pick the enjoyment of working with patients and the thirst for...
Medical physicists worldwide have honed radiation technology to target cancer with such precision that patients can be treated faster, and with minimal side effects.
When an incident takes place at one of KHSC's two hospital sites, often some of the first to arrive on scene are members of our Protection Services team. That team has recently been recognized for their work as six staff members have received a...
Last week's Scotties Tournament of Hearts brought more than top-notch curling to Kingston. There was also a major donation of $57,000 from the Sandra Schmirler Foundation to Kingston General Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), along with...
Drs. Paula James and David Lillicrap were given an unexpected honour at the annual meeting of the National Hemophilia Foundation in Chicago last month. They were named "Researchers of the Year" at the event's big awards banquet. "It was a bit of a su...
Thanks to valuable feedback from our patients, the blood collection room in our Burr Wing has now been relocated to a new and bigger space. Patients receiving treatment for cancer or a kidney disease are now directed to this new room when they need...
Dave Canty is no stranger to wearing blue after 28 years with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and now three years as a volunteer at the KGH site of Kingston Health Sciences Centre. For him, the colour serves one simple but important purpose: it's...
In early 2016 Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital announced plans to create a new academic health sciences centre that would bring together the operations of the two hospitals. As a result of that announcement Kingston Health Sciences...