News and Feature Stories | KHSC Kingston Health Sciences Centre

an operating room at khsc with a text overlay that says "this is the place where innovation operates every day"

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.

Show filters

Type

Category

Audience

Year

photo of equipment to be purchased with donated funds

August 17, 2022

Generous volunteer donation supports patients across clinical areas at HDH site

Pediatric, ear/nose/throat and gastroenterology patients are among those who will benefit from the generosity of KHSC Volunteer Services to Hotel Dieu Hospital (HDH) Site thanks to a generous $73,934 donation presented by the organization to the...

A mid shot image of Akshaya Arun who has shoulder length black hair and brown eyes, and is wearing a grey blazer and white top.

People of KHSC: Akshaya Arun

Her smile is one of the first new employees with Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) are greeted with, virtually. As the facilitator of new employee welcome, part of Akshaya Arun’s job is to make sure new hires are set up for success. “No pressure...

A mid shot image of Carol Foley who has short grey hair and blue eyes, and is wearing a bright pink top.

People of KHSC: Carol Foley

She may not wear a cape (yet), but Carol Foley does have some superhero strength. As the ambulance non ambulance transfer clerk, it’s her job to make sure discharged patients or individuals leaving Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) sites for...

Sara FitzPatrick KHSC

People of KHSC: Sara FitzPatrick

Many of the activities that are part of a daily routine - like going to the bathroom, getting dressed, or taking a shower- can be impacted by illness or injury and a subsequent hospital stay. That’s where occupational therapists like Sara FitzPatrick...

Rose of Hope participants

Rose of Hope raising funds for new MRI

The 24th annual Rose of Hope Golf Tournament took place on July 26, 2022 at the Cataraqui Golf and Country Club, and the event raised $285,000. Over the next five years, the Rose of Hope committee and the women of Cataraqui Golf and Country Club...

image of Jason Hann

KHSC welcomes new Executive VP Patient Care & Chief Nursing Executive

On July 25 Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) welcomed a new member to the senior leadership team as Jason Hann assumed the role of Executive VP Patient Care and Chief Nursing Executive. Hann brings 20-plus years of experience in health care...

patient mobility aide, nursing support assistant

Helping hands

One of the strategies to help navigate staffing shortages in nursing and other key roles such as patient care assistants (PCAs) and medical technologists – that were challenges for most Canadian hospitals before the COVID-19 pandemic, but that the...

heart mapping

KHSC is first in Canada to use new heart mapping system

The maps Kingston Health Science Centre’s (KHSC) cardiologists make of patients’ hearts in order to find and treat faulty heart tissue, causing abnormal heart rhythms, are being made with more accuracy and speed using new and improved heart mapping...

Registration Clerk Frances Choong

People of KHSC: Frances Choong

It’s often said that the Emergency Department (ED) is the ‘front door to hospital care.’ In fact at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC), hundreds of people come through the ED each day, totaling more than 57,000 visits in the last year alone...