Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC)

Kingston Health Sciences Centre is southeastern Ontario’s complex, acute and specialty care, research and teaching hospital. Consisting of our Hotel Dieu site and Kingston General site, as well as the Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario and our research institute, we care for more than 500,000 patients and their families from across our region. As one of the region’s largest employers, we are home to almost 6,000 staff, more than 2,000 health-care learners and 1,000 volunteers who are committed to partnering with patients and families to ensure that we continually provide high quality, compassionate care. Fully affiliated with Queen’s University, we are ranked as one of Canada’s top research hospitals.

Mission We care for our patients, families and each other through everyday actions, significant moments and exciting breakthroughs. Vision Partnering in care, discovery and learning to achieve better health for our communities while transforming our health care system. Values At the heart of our values is compassion. We care for some of the sickest and most vulnerable people in our community. We treat each person with respect and dignity. We do this by caring for the whole person, when and where they need it most. Partnership is at the core of how we work. We empower patients, families and our teams to do great work together, and with our community. The pursuit of excellence drives everything we do. We will be good stewards of resources while continually enhancing the quality of care, research and education we provide. Research and innovation reflect our courage to try new things, challenge what we know, create new knowledge and transform health care.

Pre-pandemic volunteers at the Hotel Dieu and Kingston General Hospital sites of Kingston Health Sciences Centre contributed 85,000 hours a year in 80 programs, services, departments and units and helped raise close to $750,000 annually toward the purchase of equipment and patient comfort items. Our volunteer team includes individuals from 16 to 98 years old, as well as therapy dogs through St. John Ambulance. Volunteer opportunities suit a variety of interests, skill levels and schedules.

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