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The COVID-19 pandemic has often been described as a marathon, not a sprint. With a finish line that is off in the distance, health-care workers on Kingston Health Sciences Centre's (KHSC) COVID-19 inpatient units are regularly going an extra mile, or...
When Penny Tasevski was asked to describe her father-in-law Aleko Tasevski before he fell critically ill with COVID-19, her voice cracked. "He lives for us [his family], and before he was hospitalized he made my day, every single day." Penny has been...
This holiday season, in lieu of gifts and food, Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC), Providence Care and the University Hospitals Kingston Foundation (UHKF) are asking patients, residents, clients, and families to consider thanking a caregiver or...
From his sprawling property on Wolfe Island, Andy Aitken speaks about his love for the outdoors. He loves canoeing and camping, but as recently as a couple of years ago, all these activities felt completely out of reach.
The numbers are well documented, but can still be staggering. Over the course of the last year more than a million Canadians have tested positive for COVID-19; nearly 25,000 have died. In Ontario, Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are bursting at the seams...
As the trauma centre for southeastern Ontario, Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is expecting the Victoria Day long weekend to kick off a busier time of year for its care teams.
Jason Mellon has battled addiction for nearly his entire life. In fact, he had his first drink in 1986 when he was just 10-years-old. "I came from a broken home where I experienced verbal, physical and sexual abuse. I was sexually molested starting...
The name says it all. It's simply called "Continuous Improvement" and it's all about helping people zero in on processes that can be changed for the better, both big and small. "You start by looking at a process or system from beg
Richard King is one of hundreds of patient volunteers who have taken part in respiratory studies over the past 25 years with Dr. Denis O'Donnell, a world renowned researcher in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) at Kingston General Hospital...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and experts at Kingston Health Sciences Centre's (KHSC) new Breast Imaging Kingston (BIK) facility are encouraging eligible individuals to book an appointment for a mammogram. The push is part of a campaign...