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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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Nobody does it better than "phenomenal" KHSC staff

It takes good hands to steer Kingston Health Sciences Centre through an emergency such as the recent flooding in the Central Processing Service (CPS), which sterilizes the instruments used for surgical procedures. Fortunately, those hands are...

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

Where to go for care this weekend

With a busy weekend of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations anticipated in the city, Kingston Health Sciences Centre would like to remind the community to celebrate safely and responsibly. KHSC is currently handling an increase in patient care needs from...

patient with therapy dog

Health care going to the dogs at HDH site

A new kind of therapy is underway at our HDH site, and its three special practitioners—aka Oscar, Sophie and Arci—are scoring pats on the head wherever they go. A Golden Retriever, Gordon Setter and Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever respectively...

LINKS program

Room to grow

Every year, up to 20 secondary-school students from the Limestone District School Board enroll in the LINKS program, an alternative classroom designed to help youth who are unable to attend school due, in large part, to the complex mental health...

Ella models the new pediatric apron that was inspired by her experience in the Diagnostic Imaging department

February 28, 2019

KHSC designs new product for pediatric patients

For Kara Smith, watching her young daughter Ella receive an x-ray was one of the most helpless and frustrating feelings she has experienced as a parent. And she’s had a lot of experience with those feelings, as at the tender age of five years old...

Dr. Paula James

February 21, 2019

Advancing understanding of hemophilia A in women

KHSC physician Dr. Paula James has revealed women who are carriers of hemophilia A, an inherited bleeding disorder, experience abnormal bleeding in about 30 per cent of cases. Dr. James is working to unravel the mystery as to why this abnormal...

Dr. Sara Awad is a Endocrinology and Metabolism specialist and arrived at KHSC as part of the physician recruitment effort.

February 21, 2019

New docs on the block

The physician ranks at Kingston Health Sciences Centre have grown recently following the completion of a successful recruitment campaign aimed at bringing new and highly trained doctors to the Limestone City. In fact, more than two dozen doctors, all...

Dr. Berman

February 20, 2019

New approach to bladder cancer testing

Research led by Dr. David Berman, Director of the Queen’s Cancer Research Institute and a clinician-scientist with the KGH Research Institute, has identified a simpler, faster and lower-cost approach to diagnostic testing that could rapidly improve...

The construction for the second MRI as it appears from King Street

February 15, 2019

Construction for second MRI hits key milestones

Driving along King Street, along the back of our Kingston General Hospital site, it may not be immediately obvious to spot the major changes happening inside KHSC’s Diagnostic Imaging department. However, behind the grey exterior walls, a major...