Quick facts
• We are southeastern Ontario's leading centre for complex acute and specialty care.
• Through our facility in Kingston and our 24 satellites through southeastern Ontario, we serve the almost 500,000 residents who live a 20,000-square-kilometre predominantly rural area, as well as some communities on James Bay in Ontario's north.
• People come to us when they have severe trauma, high risk pregnancy, cancer, very sick babies, heart attacks, strokes, life threatening injuries and respiratory failure.
• People come to us when they require specialized care that is not available in their local community: when they need transplants, heart surgery, life support, dialysis, brain surgery, stem cells, radiation and special imaging.
• In addition to our role as the region's leading centre for complex acute and specialty care, we also serve as a local community hospital, caring for the less acute needs of the residents of Greater Kingston.
• Together with Queen’s University, we are one of 10 acute-care teaching hospitals in Ontario that train post-graduate students and conduct important research – and the only facility of this kind in southeastern Ontario.
Patients served (based on 2010-2011 data)
• We operate 373 inpatient beds.
• We admit more than 19,000 inpatients each year.
• We see more than 49,300 people in our emergency department each year.
• We conduct more than 70,000 cancer centre visits each year.
• We perform 8,765 operations each year.
• We deliver 2,040 babies each year.
• We see more than 153,800 outpatient clinic visits each year.
• Our average length of patient stay is 7.34 days.
Staff and volunteers
• We have 3,750 staff working at KGH.
• We have 565 medical staff including physicians, consultants and midwives.
• We have 900 volunteers who contribute 80,000 hours of service each year to enhance the care we
provide.
Teaching and research
• We host 2,400 students from 34 universities and colleges across Canada who rely on us to provide
the learning environment they need to become health-care professionals.
• We are also home to 160 medical researchers.
Economic impact
• We are the third largest public sector employer in the Greater Kingston area.
• We inject $215 million a year in wages into the local economy.
• Our total expenditure budget for fiscal 2012 is estimated at $415M.