Surgery Program
Cornwall Community Hospital is home to a modern, state-of-the-art Operating Room constructed during the hospital’s capital redevelopment project in 2014. Today, more than 6,000 surgeries are performed annually at Cornwall Community Hospital by our highly qualified, compassionate, and multidisciplinary team of operating room health care workers and physicians.
CCH is a participating hospital in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®).
Getting Ready for Surgery
Here's what you can expect:
- Pre-Admission Clinic (PAC): Your surgical journey may begin with a visit to the Pre-Admission Clinic (PAC) before your planned operation.
- Day Surgery Unit (DSU): On the day of your operation, you will be coming to the Day Surgery Unit (DSU) where the Nurse will prepare you for your operation.
- Operating Room: From the DSU you will be taken to the Operating Room. There are a total of six operating rooms at CCH.
- Post-Anesthetic Care Unit (PACU): After the operation, you will wake up in the Post Anesthetic Care Unit (PACU) also known as Recovery Room.
Depending on the type of operation, you may go home the same day or be admitted to a hospital bed in our Inpatient Surgery Unit. If you are going home on the same day, you will return to the DSU after your visit to the PACU to continue your recovery and prepare for going home.
At CCH, maintaining a culture of quality and safety is a priority. We use a Surgical Safety Checklist, which is a series of questions (in the form of a checklist) that the surgical team will go through with you and with each other during various phases of your surgical journey.
Surgical services offered at Cornwall Community Hospital include:
- Breast
- Ear, nose, and throat
- Endoscopy (colonoscopy, gastroscopy, and bronchoscopy)
- General (colon and rectal, abdominal such as cholecystectomy, appendectomy etc.)
- Ophthalmology (cataracts, etc.)
- Orthopedic (joint surgery, fractures and other musculoskeletal).
- Paediatric dental
- Plastic
- Trauma
- Urology
The most important person involved in your surgery is YOU, the soon to be patient. The checklists below provide you with important questions and some "to-dos" to help you become familiar with your planned treatment and actively participate in your plan of care, to ensure your maximal recovery.