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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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Detour sign outside of KGH

September 1, 2016

Getting to KGH this weekend

Thousands of Queen’s University students will be moving into residences around campus this weekend. As a result on Sunday, Sept. 4 a number of streets in the area will be closed or reduced to one lane, and Kingston Transit buses will not stop at...

Gabor Fichtinger

August 26, 2016

Ontario Research Fund awards $1.1 million to KGHRI researchers

Doctors and scientists in the Kingston General Hospital Research Institute have received more than $1 million from the Ontario Research Fund for investigations into cancer, heart and lung disease, pain, irritable bowel syndrome and eye diseases, as...

Emergency Physician Dr. Chris Evans enters information into our EDIS system that will be forwarded directly to the CCAC as part of our iCART initiative.

August 24, 2016

KGH focusing on improving patient flow

At Kingston General Hospital (KGH), like in many others across the province, keeping patients moving in and out of the hospital can at times be a difficult task. But there’s some hope that three new initiatives now underway will help ease the...

dr daren heyland

August 19, 2016

International study targets care of elderly in ICU

A new joint study by a clinician-researcher at Kingston General Hospital and the University of Calgary aims to create a framework to assist intensive care physicians in partnering with patient’s families, to enable and empower them as advocates and...

Aerial photo of Kingston General Hospital

August 18, 2016

Where to access health care in Kingston this weekend

With a busy weekend of events scheduled in the city, Kingston General Hospital (KGH) and Hotel Dieu Hospital (HDH) would like to remind the community, as well as the many visitors who will be in Kingston over the next few days, where they can access...

KGH kids get a super hero treat

Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

Patients, visitors and staff at Kingston General Hospital (KGH) got a real surprise when they looked out of their windows earlier this week. Suspended in mid-air were Batman, Superman, Spiderman and friends coming down the side of the hospital...

George Thomson, Chair of the KGH Board of Directors, addresses guests and the media during the announcement.

Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care announces investments in Kingston hospitals

As part of the province’s $51.8 billion investment in health care for 2016-17, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has announced an investment of over $13 million in the Kingston area. “With this new and important funding, we are working to...

Program providing kidney care at home

Over the years, KGH Patient Experience Advisor Karen Nicole Smith has spent her fair share of time in the hospital. But thanks to a dialysis machine that she can use in her home, she’s been given back the valuable gift of time. Now many more KGH...

Amer Johri sees a patient

KGHRI researcher heads to China for cardiovascular research experience

A Kingston General Hospital clinician scientist specializing in 3-D cardiac and vascular imaging has been selected for a unique, two-week science exchange program in China this August. Dr. Amer Johri, director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Network at...