Research Facilities
Providence Care Research Facilities offer fully equipped labs, clinical exam rooms, research and meeting spaces.
State-of-the-Art Research Labs
Providence Care Research Facilities are located on level two of Providence Care Hospital. The research area consists of three clinical exam rooms, a flex workspace area with access to desks and computers for students and research assistants, three meeting rooms, two large research rooms, and accessible washrooms.
Researchers house their equipment in our research labs for data collection purposes. Current research equipment includes – motion capture marker less cameras, eye-tracking system, and KINARM robotic device.
Helix Wet Lab
The Helix Wet Lab is a Biosafety Level 2 (BSL-2) located within Providence Care Hospital in Kingston, Ontario. The laboratory is designed to support emerging health and life sciences companies as they grow, innovate and commercialize new technologies. Visit our Helix Wet Lab page for more information.
Biohazard Level 2 Lab
This lab allows researchers to use biological samples collected from research participants and allows processing of samples and storing them onsite. This lab is equipped with a biosafety cabinet, two centrifuges, -80 C freezer, and an emergency eyewash station.
Flex Workspace
The flex space (~1000 square feet) is equipped with workstations with computers designed for learners and research personnel to have a desk space for managing their research projects while working onsite. Examples include summer students, graduate students, research assistants, research coordinators, and research visitors. The Research Space Policy guides this space and other research space use.
Meeting Rooms
These rooms are available for booking for researchers and anyone else from across the organization. The spaces are used by research teams for presentations and discussions as well as by clinical teams that need access to OTN equipment.
Booking Clinical Exam Rooms for Research
The research area has three clinical exam rooms equipped with some medical equipment available for research projects. Please indicate which rooms you would like to book from the list below and include details about your research study (TRAQ ethics#, PI name, study title)
Booking a Research Space
To book a room please email cagalawa@providencecare.ca
- Clinical exam room (D2. 043)
- Clinical exam room (D2. 047)
- Clinical exam room (D2. 049)
