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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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Patient Experience Advisor Angela Morin looks over some of the materials now available in the new resource centre located in the Burr Wing lobby.

August 21, 2013

New Resource Centre offers support to patients and families living with cancer

The cancer journey can be stressful and confusing. Now there is a new support in place at The Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario at Kingston General Hospital to help patients and their families find information that can help them better understand...

Members of the classes of 1905 and 1906 were among some of the first graduates of the KGH School of Nursing. The young women spent their own money to capture this moment for posterity. (Photo: KGH Archives) (Right) KGH School of Nursing Medal, 1888. (Photo: Museum of Health Care)

August 21, 2013

KGH: 175 years of caring - School of Nursing

By the 1880's antiseptic practices had been adopted and the surgical field was expanding. As medical care became more specialized and complex, its practitioners began to realize the immense benefit that trained nurses had to play in improving patient...

Quicker testing procedures help to identify positive results.

August 14, 2013

Efforts to combat C. difficile are working

Controlling the spread of infections is a constant challenge for hospitals. Here at Kingston General Hospital, we've made great progress to reduce them over the past year - and that means a safer environment for patients and staff. Our total number...

A proponent of antisepsis, Dr. Kenneth N. Fenwick's contributions were instrumental in advancing surgical and medical training at Kingston General Hospital during the mid-late 19th century. (c.1896)

August 14, 2013

KGH: 175 years of caring - Dr. Kenneth Neander Fenwick

Dr. Kenneth Neander Fenwick (1852 - 1896) was born and raised in Kingston. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Queen's University in 1871, he earned his medical degree at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons at Kingston. In 1873, he...

Climb on board: More buses than ever will soon be stopping in front of KGH

KGH partners with Kingston Transit

You may have noticed the stylish new bus stops that Kingston Transit put up on Stuart Street recently. They are part of a bigger plan to get more people riding the bus to and from Kingston General Hospital. To get things rolling next month, the...

A mock scene of an operation in the Fenwick Operating Theatre. (c. 1896)

KGH: 175 years of caring - The Fenwick Operating Theatre

Formally opened in October 1895, the Fenwick Operating Theatre cost $4,000 to build. Dr. Kenneth N. Fenwick, a Queen's Medical College professor and attending physician for the hospital had been requesting a new operating theatre for years and...

Sara Lavigne, Central Processing Technician, sports one of KGH's new ID clips. The clips are being handed out across the hospital to ensure people wear their ID at chest level.

Creating new standards to support Patient- and Family-Centred Care

Kingston General Hospital is on a journey to put our patients at the centre of everything we do. To support staff and physicians who have been asking for tools to help them provide patient- and family-centred care, work is now underway to create some...

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KGH: 175 years of caring - Birth of the Doran Building

To better meet the needs of the growing number of patients, the Hospital Board appealed to the community in 1892 for funds to construct a women's hospital, a proper laundry, and an up-to-date surgical facility. Construction of the Doran Building, the...

Fire engulfs the Watkins Wing in 1897. Firemen and volunteers managed to save the main building by passing buckets of water.

KGH: 175 years of caring - Christmas Fire, 1897

On the morning of Christmas Eve in 1897, fire broke out in the St. George's Ward of the then 35-year-old Watkins wing. One of the orderlies, preparing the wax to polish the floors, spilled turpentine on an open flame, igniting the fire. The fire...