Queen’s introduces Providence Care partnership
A new program will allow graduates of the School of Medicine to experience working with high-need patients in long-term care facilities with a new partnership between Queen’s and Providence Care, a specialized care centre for the elderly, patients coping with chronic illness, stroke survivors and those living with serious mental illness.
The program allows doctors studying to become family physicians to do a four-month rotation of their required two-year residency at Providence Manor, a 243-bed, long-term care home in downtown Kingston.
While working at Providence Manor, they assume the medical care of a group of hospital residents and are overseen by the residents’ attending physicians.
The first group of 14 medical school graduates began their residency rotation at Providence Manor in July, and 14 new graduates will start their rotations at the end of October.
—Jane Switzer
YouTube video aids Kingston Police in arrest
Kingston Police have used social networking website Facebook and online video sharing website YouTube to aid in the arrest and charge of an Ottawa-area man for aggravated assault and choking during Homecoming weekend.
The video, which had over 3,500 hits as of Oct. 16, was shot using a digital camera by a bystander in the Subway at Barrie and Princess streets, where the assault took place.
Police allege Mackenzie Gerald McDonald, a student at Algonquin College, is the man in the video putting another patron in a headlock before throwing him to the floor at about 2 a.m. on Sept. 28.
MacDonald surrendered himself to police on Oct. 9 and appeared in bail court in the afternoon.
He was released on a $5,000 bond and is due back in court in mid-November.
Additionally, police sent messages through popular Facebook groups with the hopes of reaching any witnesses who might have been at the sandwich shop that night.
The Queen’s first-year undergraduate group on Facebook has approximately 2,600 members, each of whom received a message asking for help.
The 34 year-old victim, a construction worker from the Hamilton area working at the Canadian Tire site near Highway 401, remains in intensive care in hospital with life-threatening head injuries.
Police have not released his name.
—Jane Switzer
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