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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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Rick King, COPD research volunteer

September 27, 2016

“It’s our responsibility to help”: Why I take part in research

Richard King is one of hundreds of patient volunteers who have taken part in respiratory studies over the past 25 years with Dr. Denis O’Donnell, a world renowned researcher in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) at Kingston General Hospital...

Dr. Susan Bartels

September 23, 2016

KGHRI scientists address global child marriage crisis

Dr. Susan Bartels, a global health specialist at the KGH Research Institute, recently returned from Lebanon where she and a team are working to address a world health crisis – child marriage. The flow of Syrian refugees into countries including...

Dr. Graeme Smith in his clinic at KGH using one of his apps.

September 2, 2016

Kingston-Ottawa research team receives $9.8 million to study maternal health

A joint research team at the Kingston General Hospital Research Institute and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute have been awarded $9.8 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to continue their groundbreaking work into maternal...

Dr. Harriet Feilotter

September 2, 2016

KGHRI researcher co-leads study of improved cancer screening technique

KGHRI molecular geneticist and Queen’s University cancer researcher Harriet Feilotter (Pathology and Molecular Medicine) is co-leading a multi-institutional study with Dr. John Bartlett of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) on the...

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...