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 reserved only for life-threatening cancer cases, […]
TODAY I HAD MY EYES OPENED WIDE! What I witnessed during my 4+hour stay in the Cornwall Hospital Acute Care Emergency Department this afternoon, gave me a new respect for appreciation for hard working and dedicated medical staff. I was able to witness their frustration, yet dedication, treating critically ill Covid patients who had refused […]
MAY 6, 2021 – “Spring has sprung. The grass is riz. I wonder where the birdies is?” Well, not around this bird feeder for sure. Bob Katz took this photo watching the big black furry squirrel, manoeuvred himself off a wooden beam to this feeder. He filled himself up with lots of seeds apparently before […]
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 further to avoid a disruption in […]
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 republish his post which we have […]
OCTOBER 29, 2020 – Local numbers continue to spike as the EOHU under Paul Roumeliotis still doesn’t appear to be properly enforcing the wearing masks and social distancing. Sources ask CFN today if the staffer was one of the smokers who huddle without masks at the back of CCH? It was already reported that the […]
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 a Covid-19 patient first hand? […]
SHOPLIFTING Cornwall, ON – Martha Brown-Bazinet, 38, of Cornwall was arrested on March 24th, 2020 and charged with theft under $5000. It is alleged on March 14th, 2020, the woman attended a Second Street business and removed merchandise, making no attempt to pay for the items as she left the store. Police were contacted and […]
ASSAULT Cornwall, ON – Matthew Sawyer, 33, of Cornwall was arrested on February 28th, 2020 and charged with assault. It is alleged on February 28th, 2020, he assaulted a man he did not know and police were contacted to investigate. During the investigation, he was taken into custody, charged accordingly and held for a bail […]
Did I hear anything about the young girl that took her own life? For the second time in two years I was queried that recently. We don’t like to talk about suicide. The police do not put it on the blotter. Here in Cornwall they refused to give me any numbers or data. After much […]
WEAPONS The Cornwall Community Police Service is investigating an incident that occurred on July 31st, 2018 where a male attended the Cornwall Community Hospital suffering from a gunshot wound to his upper torso. The male victim was later released from hospital after treatment for a non-life threatening wound. CCPS Criminal Investigations Division detectives are actively […]
Cornwall Ontario – Some irate taxpayers in Cornwall were offended when they read that the Bank of Montreal just sent a big bag of cash over to the Winchester Hospital instead of CCH, especially as Cornwall just bought it’s old empty BMO building on Pitt Street, in need of millions of dollars of renovations, for […]
Editor’s Note – This incident wasn’t reported by the CCPS or SIU when it occurred. The SIU is only reporting its closure of its investigation because the injury wasn’t deemed serious enough. It is not an exoneration or statement of innocence or guilt. We media, nor the public at large, would know about this event […]
Cornwall Ontario – Edna May Dorey’s birthday is May 6th. Edna will be 102 years young. And when you see her, yes ‘young’ does describe her very well. Edna belongs to a knitting group, plays bean bag and, if there is any music in the air, she is up dancing. She tells a story about falling […]
Cornwall Ontario – With the Sunshine List coming out (a list of public servants earning over $100K annually) it’s frightening to see the escalation of Cornwall area services, especially at City Hall where there’s a wage freeze and hiring freeze of unionized employees while management is seeing in some cases, double digit increases. Data from […]
Cornwall Ontario – After complaints from multiple countries, including right here in Cornwall in Canada, the Cornwall Community Hospital has decided to discontinue their relationship with Patient Direct as of May 2018. Jolene Soares sent a communication from Hospital President & CEO Jeanette Despatie Friday afternoon confirming the details. We are in the process of […]
Feeling scammed, ripped off, lied to or ignored by Patient Direct aka the Community Network or MIS TV? You’re not alone. By Mary Anne Pankhurst If you’re a local business owner in Ontario “you” are the target market for Patient Direct. In fact the company may be so clever (after having developed markets like Australia, […]
CORNWALL ONTARIO – Dr. Thomas Baitz has outlived a lot of his patients over his 80+ years. After giving lots of notice that he would stop his work at the Sleep Clinic at the Cornwall Community Hospital, rumours were that he’d retired from medicine. A sign on his door at the McConnell Medical Clinic was […]