Surgical & Minimally Invasive Innovation

Treating more urgent and chronic conditions – safely, quickly – so patients can go home sooner.

Today experts across a range of fields use catheters, guidewires, cameras, real time X-ray and fluorescence-guided imaging to treat cancer, stroke, heart attacks, organ failure, arterial and renal disease, traumatic injury, gynecological conditions, and more.

These surgical and minimally invasive interventions allow patients to benefit from less pain, lower doses of anesthesia, reduced risk of infection and shorter hospital stays – critically important for the more than 60,000 seniors in our community, many of whom are too frail or unwell to tolerate open surgery.

Already a leader among Ontario’s community hospitals in delivering a wide range of minimally invasive services, PRHC continues to revolutionize its programs to better meet the needs of our growing and aging community. The Health Centre will continue to expand the boundaries of care to offer even more patients rapid, limb- and lifesaving surgical and minimally invasive care close to home.

Donor investments in innovations such as the expansion and upgrade of PRHC’s Interventional Radiology Suites, advanced minimally invasive surgical tools, construction of a dedicated new hybrid Operating Room, and new anesthesia machines are helping speed identification and treatment of disease, shorten wait times and hospital stays, and reduce pain by providing faster, safer, more precise care to more patients.