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Having worked at KHSC for 13 years, carpenter Mike Berry knows our Kingston General Hospital site like the back of his hand. However in 2013 he began to see the hospital from a whole new perspective...as a patient. Shortly after the birth of his son...
Celebrating his authentic self is something Nicholas Axas believes in doing every day, not just during Pride Month in June. Ditto, he says, for his workplace at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC), where he serves as operational director of the...
When he was growing up on Montreal's west island, Renaud Golsse never envisioned a career in health care. In fact, he had something quite different in mind. But sometimes life has a funny way of making sure you end up right where you need to be....
It takes all kinds of people to keep a hospital running and offering the highest level of patient and family-centred care. From doctors and nurses, to dieticians, physiotherapists, social workers, porters and environmental services staff, everyone...
Many of the activities that are part of a daily routine - like going to the bathroom, getting dressed, or taking a shower- can be impacted by illness or injury and a subsequent hospital stay. That's where occupational therapists like Sara FitzPatrick...
As a health-care worker, Sarah Moore-Vasram says, "my influence on people's health is limited. So much of what determines someone's overall health is social in nature and beyond what I can do in health care. The conditions in which people are born...
At 21 years old, KHSC Security Guard Satwinder Singh already has a lifetime's worth of stories to share. In part, because his journey from Punjab, India to Kingston has been a winding one. At just 8 years old Singh became a volunteer soldier in the...
Hospitals are filled with tens of thousands of pieces of equipment. If something breaks or doesn't work right, it could dramatically impact patient care. That's where St?phane Bois comes in. The senior biomedical technologist is part of a problem...
When patients at KHSC receive life-changing news - a devastating diagnosis, the aftermath of a stroke or the overwhelming weight of grief - Suzanne Robertson, a spiritual health practitioner and registered psychotherapist, is often called to the...
Patient Safety Quality Specialist Taralynn Richmond started working in the field of quality/patient safety/ patient relations 15 years ago at a time when this field was rapidly evolving and becoming more formalized. Her passion for Improvement...
