Kingston Health Sciences Centre is southeastern Ontario’s complex, acute and specialty care, research and teaching hospital. Consisting of the Hotel Dieu site and Kingston General site, as well as the Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario and its research institute, they care for more than 500,000 patients and their families from across the region.
As one of the region’s largest employers, Kingston Health Sciences Centre is home to nearly 5,000 staff, more than 2,000 health-care learners and 1,000 volunteers who are committed to partnering with patients and families to continually provide high quality, compassionate care. Fully affiliated with Queen’s University, it is ranked as one of Canada’s top research hospitals.
As a teaching hospital, they attract some of the nation’s brightest learners to pursue their health care education, which helps to create the capacity to provide highly specialized services close to home. They train thousands of students every year and are home to hundreds of researchers whose curiosity drives them to make groundbreaking advancements in health care.