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Twice the robots, twice the care.

In the operating rooms at KHSC, surgery is starting to look more like science fiction. From behind the console of the new Da Vinci Xi robotic surgery system, surgeons can perform minimally invasive procedures with precision, ease and accuracy, doubling the capacity of a program already transforming hundreds of lives across Southeastern Ontario each year.

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The Emergency Department at our KGH is expected to be busy this weekend and people with less serious conditions should consider other health-care options this weekend

October 19, 2019

Where to go for care this weekend

With a busy weekend of Homecoming celebrations in the city, Kingston Health Sciences Centre would like to remind the community to celebrate safely and responsibly. KHSC has put plans in place to support an increase in patient demand this weekend, but...

bright, shiny floor leading into renovated clinic

September 24, 2019

A sight for sore eyes

After a eight-week shutdown due to a fire in July, the Mary Alice 1 (MA-1) Emergency Eye Clinic at our Hotel Dieu Hospital site reopened today looking brighter than ever. Even better, it weathered the temporary closure without cancelling a single...

Follow-up phone call program

September 17, 2019

Phone calls to patients are making all the difference

While calling people on the phone may be something that was done more commonly in the past, two Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) nurses are picking up the phone seven days a week to check in with patients to see how they are doing after their...

BRA Day Kingston

September 9, 2019

Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day (BRA Day) returns to Kingston

For women who face a breast cancer diagnosis, connecting with others who have gone through a similar experience and learning about treatment options is an important step to managing their diagnosis. To help women with this process, the Cancer Centre...

trauma informed

September 5, 2019

Changing attitudes toward opioid addictions

Two years ago, Kingston Health Sciences Centre’s (KHSC) medicine program experienced a significant spike in the number of people admitted to its Kingston General Hospital (KGH) site with conditions related to opioid addiction. “We were overwhelmed...

Dr. Vanner at the microscope

August 20, 2019

New KHSC research will test novel pain-relieving drugs for bowel disease

One of the greatest unmet needs of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is abdominal pain. Opioid drugs are the most effective treatment, but they have serious side effects. However, new opioid drugs now in development offer longer-lasting...

VEP

August 19, 2019

Helping Ontarians breathe easier for 25 years

A lot has changed since Ontario’s Ventilator Equipment Pool (VEP) first opened its doors 25 years ago: if you wanted to use the internet you had to dial-up using a phone line, which would have made the real-time online interactive education sessions...

COPD

August 14, 2019

Navigator helps people manage lung disease

A key success factor in helping people manage disease is time: taking the time to understand patients’ unique symptoms, explaining what activities to avoid, and providing plenty of opportunities for questions to be answered. Time is what Kingston...

Ruaa Al-Qazazi and Kali de Repentigny are students in Canada’s first graduate program in translational medicine at Queen’s University.

Translational medicine: training student researchers to put patients first

Ruaa Al-Qazazi and Kali de Repentigny are first-year Master’s students enrolled in the graduate program of the Translational Institute of Medicine (TIME), in Queen’s Department of Medicine. This total-immersion experience combines working in labs...