The Kensington Eye Institute

The kensington eye institute is licensed under the independent health facilities act and operates a surgical and medical vision care and research facility to provide surgical medical and ancillary ambulatory care services to the public. The institute is dedicated to providing educational programs and materials as well as academic and teaching resources pertaining to medical and surgical eye care including specifically the education of medical students physicians surgical residents and fellows nursing staff technologists and other paramedical personnel. The institute also conducts research around vision health issues. Additionally the institute operates the the eye bank of canada (ontario division) ('eboc') the kensington cancer screening centre ('kcsc') and the kensington diagnostic imaging centre ('kdic'). The eboc collects processes and distributes donated human eyes and tissue for sight-saving transplants. The kcsc is dedicated to establishing equipping staffing maintaining and operating a medical and surgical facility to provide ambulatory cancer screening services and other procedures to the public including but not limited tocolonoscopy screening and procedures cervical cancer screening andprocedures and prostate cancer screening and procedures. The kdic provides x-ray ultrasound mammography and bone mineral density testing.