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Her strong commitment to putting patients and families at the centre of care has earned Dr. Shawna Johnston the 2018 Exceptional Healer Award from Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC). Dr. Johnston was one of 21 physicians nominated by patients...
For some families in Kingston, just the thought of getting their teenager booked for a COVID-19 vaccine is a daunting one. For some children, the sights and sounds of a mass-vaccination clinic can be just too overwhelming to navigate. For others, the...
Angela Morin was deeply bothered when she watched a dear friend sit for three long hours, in terrible pain, in a hospital waiting room nine years ago. "I thought 'how can this be happening,'" she recalls. "Everything was revolving around the hospital...
Once again, the KGH Auxiliary at the Kingston General Hospital (KGH) site of Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) has shot past its fundraising goal for its annual Teddy Bear Campaign, raising more than $32,600--well beyond its $25,000 target--to...
When Stephanie Rutherford's four-year-old son Remy began to show signs that he was getting sick, she would have never imagined that more than two weeks later they'd be laying in a hospital bed in Kingston more than 400 kilometers from home. But her...
Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is one of the first hospitals in Canada to reduce the amount of blood it collects for testing, reducing hospital patient strain and demand on donated blood products.
Paediatric infectious diseases experts from Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC), The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), CHEO, the Children's Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre and McMaster Children's Hospital (MCH) have issued a joint...
It's a parent's worst nightmare; their child is in hospital and suffers a heart attack or stops breathing. A new initiative being rolled out in Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is looking to avoid that by detecting early warning signs of...
Kingston Health Science's Centre's (KHSC) mission to compassionately care for others has translated into a warmer winter for hundreds in our community this year. By the time the annual Hotel Dieu Hospital/St. Mary's Cathedral Winter Coat Drive w
Daniel Mackinnon and Joshua Abrams' journey to become parents wasn't an easy one. Not only did the married couple from Ottawa spend nearly a year navigating a sometimes-complicated adoption process, but they were thrown the ultimate curveball when...