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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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CEO Leslee Thompson has been with KGH since February 2009. She is pictured here welcoming staff and the community at our hospital's 175th Anniversary celebration back in September 2013.

KGH CEO announces departure date

After six years on the job, KGH President and CEO Leslee Thompson has announced her plans for the future. Last week, Thompson informed the Board of Directors that she would not be looking to extend her contract when it expires in February 2016. “I’ve...

Registered Nurse Janice McLure checks out the new pediatric rainbow cart that recently arrived on Kidd 10.

Pediatric ‘rainbow’ Carts rolling out

When a pediatric patient goes into cardiac arrest, every second it takes to respond is precious. That’s why Kingston General Hospital is putting into place a new tool that will make it easier for resuscitation teams to quickly provide lifesaving...

Colourful paint on the walls, which match the new wayfinding signs, will help patients and families find their way around KGH.

New wayfinding signs now in place at KGH

The latest phase of Kingston General Hospital's new wayfinding strategy is now rolling out on levels 0 and 1 of the hospital. The colourful new directional signs are beginning to replace the old grey and white ones throughout our buildings. The signs...

Much like the KGHConnect, KGH's new corporate site will be fully compatible with any mobile device and much easier to navigate, search and share information from.

New KGH website on the way

Think back to the last time you visited a new restaurant or hotel. Before you left home, did you look at their website to see what the place looked like, what was on the menu, or where to park? Our patients and their families do the same thing when...

(From left) Rachael Smith-Tryon, Manager of Admitting, Registration and Switchboard and Kellie Kitchen, Program Operational Director for OBS/GYN/PEDS/SPA, have a quick meeting as part of the daily huddles

KGH officially out of gridlock

Our hospital’s longest ever gridlock is now officially over, thanks to the big improvements in patient flow we’ve seen over the past few weeks. “This is an important achievement everyone at Kingston General Hospital can take immense pride in,” says...

A Kingston Transit bus stops at one of the new shelters outside of KGH

Kingston Transit improves bus service to KGH

Pretty soon, you’ll be seeing a lot more of the blue Kingston Transit express buses running on the streets around Kingston General Hospital. Starting May 4, Transit will add two new express routes to serve the hospital. Building on the success of the...

An example of a PulsePoint alert on a smartphone

Life-saving app launches in Kingston

A new mobile phone app has been launched in Kingston with a goal of saving the lives of people who experience cardiac arrest outside of the hospital. Kingston is the first community in Canada to introduce PulsePoint – a free app that is already...

Pulsepoint App

Life-saving app launches in Kingston

A new mobile phone app has been launched in Kingston with a goal of saving the lives of people who experience cardiac arrest outside of the hospital. Kingston is the first community in Canada to introduce PulsePoint – a free app that is already...

One of the old beds on Connell 10 that's to set to be replaced by the end of this month.

New hospital beds rolling into KGH

They may not be the most glamorous piece of hospital equipment, but that’s not stopping the excitement from building about the arrival of many new patient care beds. The new High-Low beds are called the Advanta 2 and Kingston General Hospital (KGH)...