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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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
At 6’1” and 260 pounds, it’s hard to imagine that professional rugby player Emerson Prior was ever small for his age. Not just small, born weighing just three pounds at KGH in 1998, Emerson was in fact what’s known as a micro-preemie.
With unprecedented patient volumes in the Emergency Department (ED) at Kingston General Hospital (KGH) and the Urgent Care Centre (UCC) at Hotel Dieu Hospital (HDH), Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is asking the community for support to ensure...
It was a typically busy weekend in the Emergency Department (ED) at Kingston Health Sciences Centre's KGH site as a result of Homecoming celebrations in Kingston, however a new pilot project made sure that patients continued to quickly access the...