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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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The robotics surgical operating system in use

KHSC launches new robot-assisted surgical program

Kingston Health Sciences Centre continues to invest in innovation and patient care through the recent purchase of a robot-assisted surgical system. This robotic system allows for more precise and minimally invasive surgeries. For patients, this means...

glaucoma specialist doing eye exam

Unique glaucoma guidelines take straight aim at the "silent thief"

Glaucoma steals vision slowly and painlessly when left undetected, and half of the people with the sneaky eye disease don’t even know they have it and are at risk for irreversible blindness. Now, a first-ever quality standard is giving patients and...

patient flow improvements

Patient flow and outstanding care working hand-in-hand

Patients who are cared for in the Admission Transfer Unit (ATU) after being admitted in the Emergency Department (ED) at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) probably don’t know that since the unit opened two years ago, it has helped patients like...

Retail Food Services manager Janet Donnelly is one of the KHSC staff members championing Be A Donor month

April is Be A Donor month

April is Be A Donor month and Kingston Health Sciences Centre is encouraging all staff to learn about the options available to become a donor and help pass on the gift of life. Being a donor can take on many forms. You can register to become an organ...

close-up of instruments

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...