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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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Amanda MacInnis demonstrates the new prone breast biopsy table that helps provide better accuracy, shorter procedures and improved patient comfort for those receiving a breast mammography and biopsy.

December 21, 2022

New technology ensures patients receive state-of-the-art breast care

A new prone breast biopsy table has been recently installed at Breast Imaging Kingston (BIK) that helps provide better accuracy, shorter procedures and improved patient comfort for those receiving a breast mammography and biopsy. Known as the Hologic...

Mackinnon Abrams family

December 15, 2022

Back home for the holidays

Daniel Mackinnon and Joshua Abrams’ journey to become parents wasn’t an easy one. Not only did the married couple from Ottawa spend nearly a year navigating a sometimes-complicated adoption process, but they were thrown the ultimate curveball when...

Recipients of Honour Your Caregiver gifts

December 13, 2022

'Honour Your Caregiver' this holiday season

This holiday season, in lieu of gifts and food, Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC), Providence Care and the University Hospitals Kingston Foundation (UHKF) are asking patients, residents, clients, and families to consider thanking a caregiver or...

Stéphane Bois has short, salt and pepper hair. He’s wearing a long-sleeve blue shirt and mask. He’s picture inside the Clinical Engineering department at the Kingston General Hospital site.

December 12, 2022

People of KHSC: Stéphane Bois

Hospitals are filled with tens of thousands of pieces of equipment. If something breaks or doesn’t work right, it could dramatically impact patient care. That’s where Stéphane Bois comes in. The senior biomedical technologist is part of a problem...

patient monitoring

December 9, 2022

KHSC improves vital patient monitoring in hospital

KHSC has invested $5M to improve and standardize the devices health-care workers, across 11 units, use to monitor patients needing critical care and to look for life-threatening heart rhythms. “In today’s stretched health-care environments...

school mural

December 7, 2022

“Next time, will you come to me?”

Helping kids with physical, neurological and/or developmental challenges to achieve, belong and inspire in their own communities is at the heart of KidsInclusive Centre for Child & Youth Development (KI). And sometimes, making that connection means...

Dorothy Messenger is pictured inside the waiting room at KHSC’s Intensive Care Unit. She has short white hair and wears black framed glasses. She’s wearing a long sleeved, blue sweater with a blue vest with the words KHSC volunteer written on it.

December 5, 2022

People of KHSC: Dorothy Messenger

She’s one of the first people family members interact with when a loved one is admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC). Dorothy Messenger may not provide direct patient care, but the volunteer plays a vital...

The rutherford kids at home before Remy's hospitalization

December 5, 2022

400 kilometers from home

When Stephanie Rutherford’s four-year-old son Remy began to show signs that he was getting sick, she would have never imagined that more than two weeks later they’d be laying in a hospital bed in Kingston more than 400 kilometers from home. But her...

Santa departs helicopter

December 2, 2022

Operation HO HO HO lands at KHSC

Santa Claus got an early start on his rounds this year, touching down at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) on Dec. 2 to surprise young patients and their families with gifts and good cheer. Santa left the reindeer at the North Pole and instead...