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Dr. Pichora with the Portable MRI

Donation of portable MRI will help improve care and reduce wait times

Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is now only the second hospital in Ontario to have a portable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine for clinical use in its Intensive Care Unit (ICU), thanks to the generosity of donor Stephen Sorensen who made a $500,000 donation through the University Hospitals Kingston Foundation.

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A portrait of Dr. Emidio Tarulli

KHSC expands liver cancer treatment with cutting-edge Y90 therapy

Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is now home to one of the most advanced treatments for liver cancer in Canada. Named after the radioactive isotope it uses, Yttrium-90, (Y-90) it’s a minimally invasive procedure that precisely delivers a...

internationally-educated nurses

They are back doing what they love

“From my very first day, I felt welcomed and supported in ways I hadn’t expected,” says Mahsa Behrouzi Moghaddam, who is one of the more than 35 internationally-educated nurses hired at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) in the past year. Many...

integrative brain tumor program

Integrative Brain Tumor Program achieving best-in-class patient outcomes

Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is setting new benchmarks in brain tumor care with its groundbreaking Integrative Brain Tumor Program (IBTP), developed under the leadership of Dr. Teresa Purzner, a neurosurgeon, researcher, and entrepreneur...

Staff work with KHSC's new PET-CT scanner

KHSC launches southeastern Ontario’s first PET-CT program

Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) has reached a major milestone in the advancement of medical imaging for southeastern Ontario, officially completing construction of the region’s first positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT)...

A portrait of patient Christine Hollings

Cutting-edge imaging, local impact

Patients in southeastern Ontario now have access to one of the most advanced diagnostic imaging tools available, following the launch of Kingston Health Sciences Centre’s (KHSC) new PET-CT program. The first of its kind in the region, this state-of...

A close up shot of Clare Bowley who is standing at a care desk chatting with a colleague who is seated. Clare has a blonde bob, blue eyes, has tortoise framed glasses on and a mask, and is wearing a pink sweater.

People of KHSC: Clare Bowley

If we had to describe Clare Bowley in one word, it would be memorable. But it’s not just one thing this social worker does that makes her iconic. It’s everything she does — and has done since joining Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) 34 years...

blood conservation device

ICU blood transfusions down nearly 50 per cent

Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is working to make sure patients keep as much of their blood as possible with a common-sense approach that has reduced blood transfusions by 46 per cent in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). KHSC’s new blood...

Dr. Omar Islam stands next to the Swoop Portable MRI

February 13, 2025

Innovation at KHSC: Dr. Omar Islam

In a bustling conference hall in 2019, Dr. Omar Islam came across a groundbreaking innovation that would, in just a few years' time, revolutionize medical imaging in remote communities. "They were in a tiny corner of this massive conference hall...

Dr. David Pichora with portable MRI

January 29, 2025

Donation of portable MRI will help improve ICU care and reduce MRI & CT wait times

Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is now only the second hospital in Ontario to have a portable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine for clinical use in its Intensive Care Unit (ICU), thanks to the generosity of donor Stephen Sorensen who...