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12-year old McKenna Modler talks with CEO Leslee Thompson after presenting a cheque to the Children's Cancer Care Fund at Kingston General Hospital worth just over $96,000. If anyone knows how difficult cancer treatment can be on children and their f...
As the largest acute care program at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC), the Medicine units that make up the department have the ability to improve the health outcomes of many patients. Before the Medicine program embarked on a quality...
Health-care staffing shortages are impacting hospitals and health-care organizations across Canada, including here at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC). KHSC's efforts to recruit new staff have attracted hundreds of new people to the...
Over the years the Team Awards have become part of the culture at KHSC, celebrating teams of people dedicated to transforming the patient and family experience in the areas of Care, Knowledge and Leadership. This year, nine groups from across KHSC...
The nominations are all in, and the winners of this year's KGH Team Awards will be officially unveiled on Friday, Jan. 24. Eleven different teams are nominated this year for their efforts to support KGH delivering Outstanding Care, Always. "The
Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) has launched a first-of-its-kind ambassador role in its Mental Health and Addiction Care (MHAC) program, a welcoming presence for patients and families that also adds an extra layer of safety for everyone in the...
When you're just out of nursing school, the Emergency Department can be a daunting place to start a career. But thanks to the Nursing Graduate Guarantee (NGG) initiative, the transition just got a lot easier. "The move from student to nurse is the ha...
New technology in the KGH Research Institute's W.J. Henderson Centre for Patient-Oriented Research is helping scientists accelerate their search for the causes of bowel disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Mass spectrometry equipment has...
KGH and the Community Midwives of Kingston are taking another step forward in their ongoing partnership to provide services to mothers and babies in our region. Midwifery services will be expanding in Kingston in 2015 as two new Midwives have been...
As part of the province's $51.8 billion investment in health care for 2016-17, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has announced an investment of over $13 million in the Kingston area. "With this new and important funding, we are working to...
