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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...
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...
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...
Patients here at Kingston General Hospital may begin to see some new purple bracelets around the hospital. They are part of an educational initiative taking place in partnership with the Ontario Renal Network. It's called "Save My Veins." T
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...
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.
Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) has become the first in North America to offer a unique surgical procedure to treat patients with a complex aortic disease known as an aortic dissection, a life-threatening condition in which the largest artery...
For Cindy Bolton and Ashley Hendry the COVID-19 pandemic began with a request - to create Kingston Health Sciences Centre's (KHSC) COVID Assessment Centre (AC) and have it open in less than a week. Four days after the initial ask, their team was...
It's been about six months since new work began at Kingston General Hospital to tackle the problem of gridlock. Now, some innovative solutions are being implemented that are expected to help improve patient flow. Each of the changes is the result of...
Early on May 7 at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC), Robert Louis “Robbie” Sherren became the first adult heart donor in Canada to donate after circulatory death, which happens when a person’s heart permanently stops beating.