CFN – As we draw near the two month mark of the Bilingual Nurse Protest of the Cornwall Ontario Community Hospital’s implementation of the French Language Services Act patterns seem to be evolving. One that a core of nurses have issues over not either being able to be hired asContinue Reading
Cornwall ON – It’s going to be a long summer for most likely soon to be traded Roberto Luongo. The former team captain will have to live with the weight of being the target for his team’s loss of Lord Stanley Cup as the Canucks fell to Boston inContinue Reading
I just shake my head as I read this stuff. www.conservative.ca The first thing you see when you go to Mr Harper’s website are attack ads graphically displayed. A click away you can participate in something called https://mycampaign.conservative.ca/ Where Mr. Harper and his team will actually instruct you to perpetuateContinue Reading
NOVEMBER 19, 2023 – It has been awhile since I wrote a column. In early April I had an accident and after a stay in the Cornwall Community Hospital, I spent several months in St. Joseph’s Continuing Care Rehab Unit. The staff at both CCH and the Rehab Unit wereContinue Reading
AUGUST 3, 2023 – Cornwall Community Hospital (CCH) is now administering a new cutting-edge clot-busting medication to treat acute ischemic stroke patients called Tenecteplase (TNK), marking an important leap forward for stroke care in the community. Stroke is a critical medical emergency that requires rapid and effective intervention to mitigateContinue Reading
APRIL 4, 2023 – Cornwall Community Hospital (CCH) has been recognized by Ontario Health (Trillium Gift of Life Network [TGLN]) for its outstanding contributions to organ and tissue donation in Ontario in 2021/22. CCH was presented with the Provincial Conversation Rate Award for reaching a conversion rate of 100 percent,Continue Reading
May 21, 2022 – Cornwall is starting to reel at the loss of a critical health service. The McConnell walk in clinic, situated right next to the hospital, is shutting down leaving thousands of area residents at a loss for healthcare and surely what will add more pressure to hospitalContinue Reading
March 1, 2022 – Recovery Care is working with Cornwall Community Hospital’s (CCH) Community Addiction and Mental Health Services to improve access to addictions care for vulnerable or underserved areas in Cornwall by launching a new mobile clinic. The mobile clinic will provide individuals a variety of services under one roof,Continue Reading
FEBRUARY 11, 2022 – Cornwall area lawyer Maurice Gatien has been working for a few generations now, but until Covid he’s never seen anger in his face to the point that he was assaulted in his office Tuesday February 8th which resulted in a trip to CCH via ambulance. HisContinue Reading
NOVEMBER 8, 2021 – Learning that there are specialized sleep dentistry services offered in Cornwall for young, anxious, special needs, and autistic kids is news. But to understand further how Cornwall Sleep Dentistry for Kids can solve the problem of longer-than-usual pandemic-related wait times for similar services offered at CCHContinue Reading
OCTOBER 13, 2021 – Cornwall Community Hospital (CCH) will be temporarily closing operating rooms in order to prioritize urgent and high priority elective surgeries as the hospital deals with increasingly high patient volumes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The surgeries to be scheduled over the coming weeks will be reservedContinue Reading
January 7th 2021 –As the number of COVID-19 positive cases increase daily in our community, Cornwall Community Hospital is becoming challenged to meet the demand for patient care. Physicians and staff are prepared to manage the virus, but community action is required to stop the case count from rising furtherContinue Reading
JANUARY 5, 2021 – Below is a post from the Cornwall Community Hospital Chief of Staff and Emergency Room Doctor Doctor Lorne Scharf. Doctor Scharf has had some sage words before here on CFN and continues to lead the way at our local hospital. He agreed to let CFN republishContinue Reading
SEPTEMBER 5, 2020 – We were very lucky recently as CCH was gracious enough to allow us to ask a few questions of its Chief of Staff, Dr. Lorne Scharf about COVID-19. Here are our questions and his answers: CFN How did you feel the first time you encountered aContinue Reading
A early evening crash sent one man to CCH in a two vehicle collision in Cornwall Ontario. We will update if more info becomes available. If you see news happen email your photos or video to info@cornwallfreenews.comContinue Reading
The Investigation Notification of the SIU On January 7, 2020, at 5:05 a.m., the Cornwall Police Service (CPS) notified the SIU of the Complainant’s injury.The CPS reported that at 4:30 a.m., CPS officers responded to an address on Brookdale Avenue, Cornwall, for a report of a suicidal male. They saw a male running through backyards and aContinue Reading
APRIL 20, 2020 – It’s boggling that an entity that is supposed to serve public health is boycotting this newspaper and refusing to release info that supposedly is meant to save and protect lives. That’s exactly what Dr. Paul Roumeliotis is doing. While many can understand that people don’t likeContinue Reading
Reports are flooding CFN of people who have been tested for COVID 19 in the Cornwall area and in quarantine, but with no results. Initially promised results in 2-4 days, some have said that they’ve now waited TEN days without a result. Nurses have told those tested that even ifContinue Reading