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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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integrative brain tumor program

Integrative Brain Tumor Program achieving best-in-class patient outcomes

Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is setting new benchmarks in brain tumor care with its groundbreaking Integrative Brain Tumor Program (IBTP), developed under the leadership of Dr. Teresa Purzner, a neurosurgeon, researcher, and entrepreneur...

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KHSC launches southeastern Ontario’s first PET-CT program

Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) has reached a major milestone in the advancement of medical imaging for southeastern Ontario, officially completing construction of the region’s first positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT)...

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Cutting-edge imaging, local impact

Patients in southeastern Ontario now have access to one of the most advanced diagnostic imaging tools available, following the launch of Kingston Health Sciences Centre’s (KHSC) new PET-CT program. The first of its kind in the region, this state-of...

A close up shot of Clare Bowley who is standing at a care desk chatting with a colleague who is seated. Clare has a blonde bob, blue eyes, has tortoise framed glasses on and a mask, and is wearing a pink sweater.

People of KHSC: Clare Bowley

If we had to describe Clare Bowley in one word, it would be memorable. But it’s not just one thing this social worker does that makes her iconic. It’s everything she does — and has done since joining Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) 34 years...

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ICU blood transfusions down nearly 50 per cent

Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is working to make sure patients keep as much of their blood as possible with a common-sense approach that has reduced blood transfusions by 46 per cent in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). KHSC’s new blood...

Dr. Omar Islam stands next to the Swoop Portable MRI

February 13, 2025

Discovery at KHSC: Dr. Omar Islam

In a bustling conference hall in 2019, Dr. Omar Islam came across a groundbreaking innovation that would, in just a few years' time, revolutionize medical imaging in remote communities. "They were in a tiny corner of this massive conference hall...

Dr. David Pichora with portable MRI

January 29, 2025

Donation of portable MRI will help improve ICU care and reduce MRI & CT wait times

Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is now only the second hospital in Ontario to have a portable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine for clinical use in its Intensive Care Unit (ICU), thanks to the generosity of donor Stephen Sorensen who...

Portrait of Detox client Simon Cashman

January 24, 2025

This is the place where addiction recovery begins

A person could turn to substances for any number of reasons. In Simon Cashman’s case, it was an inability to cope with the many changes and stressors in his life. “A lot of things have driven me to use – people passing away that I’ve cared about...

mobility team

January 21, 2025

Go Go Mobility Team!

Ruth Woodman calls them the ‘Power Rangers.’ But there’s no morphin’ time here. These students’ superpowers are intuition and empathy, and they are armed with time. Soon after she was admitted to the hospital with low sodium levels, she was visited...