Testimonials

June 2010
We wish to recognize the staff of yours/our Hospital on June 11, 2010. Our father, and cherished family member, was rushed to your Emergency Room mid day in the attempts to revive him. The paramedics were nothing short of outstanding when they handed him over to the care of your staff.

Despite the expertise and competency of all those involved our father succumbed to his heart attack. The physician surrounded by nurses and other health care professionals demonstrated their true competency and compassion. The health care system may be broken in many respects but the professionals that we have noted make it function to a high degree of efficiency and standards.

It was the doctor who made the sad and tragic news announcement to us and in the end. We know he was tended to by the best possible health care professionals.

To everyone one involved on behalf of the K. family, we sincerely thank and praise you.

S. & T. Bird
on behalf of the entire K. family

August 2010
On the way back from our church camp, …, the pain in my side got worse and worse. I was able to get to the Carleton Place Hospital and I was treated within a short period time and received great care by the Emergency Staff. My family came to get me and take me home ...

In the early hours of Saturday morning, the pain got much worse and other symptoms got my attention. This time my husband drove me to your hospital where I was immediately treated with IV ... The nurse also found a place where my husband could rest in a lazy boy so he could get some shut eye, which he did. After many hours I was freed to go with a rec to come back for an ultrasound. Tuesday, I returned and the results were in and I did not have to wait hours and hours (as I have done in many of Ottawa's hospitals). More meds were prescribed and I was on my way again.

My fourth trip, I was given information that would set my mind at ease.

I must say the staff at the Carleton Place Hospital are TOPS. Courteous, helpful, knowledge and patient with someone who isn't normally.

Thanks again to everyone from those who made my stay something to cheer about.

B. K.

My husband was at the Carleton Place Hospital for a surgical procedure with Dr. James. He asked me to send you an email commending the staff of the OR/RR. Everyone was professional, helpful and extremely pleasant. In a day when healthcare workers are being stretched to their limit, it is nice to see such a positive morale. Please pass on our thanks and appreciation to all the members of the team. J. Gibbons

September 2008

Dear Sir:

A quick note to let you know how impressed I am with the follow-up telephone call after my knee manipulation on August 29^th. I have come to expect good care at CPDMH but this phone call was something new to me and left me impressed by the concern for my condition after the procedure. I’ve never had this happen before and am quite sure it would not take place in any of the Ottawa hospitals.

Regretfully I do not remember who made the call but their inquiry as to how I was doing, did Physiotherapy see me, a reminder that I am to see Dr. Smyth later in the month, etc. left me again grateful that we have such a terrific medical facility in our community. It is a gem!

Thanks to all who look after us so well.

Regards,

B.R.

Carleton Place Canadian - October 2008

R. W. - June 28, 2008

To the Staff of June 6, 2008 (about 6 AM),

I was in tough shape upon arrival, and before transfer to the Heart Institute, and I feel I received tremendous medical treatment at the ER.

I think I had a heart attack just before arriving or upon arrival – I was given the “clot buster”, which greatly relieved the intense pain, and quickly bundled off to the Heart Institute.

Once there, several different medical people told me the quick and efficient efforts at CPDMH saved my life.

Let me say thank you from the bottom of my new heart. I had a single bypass on June 16^th, got home June 23^rd, and I believe I will make a full recovery.

R. W.

Ed Sonnenburg - April 6, 2008

Mr. David Somppi
Chair, Board of Trustees
Carleton Place District Memorial Hospital
211 Lake Avenue East,
Carleton Place,
Ontario, K7C 1J4

E. Sonnenburg
Carleton Place ON

6 April 2008
Dear Mr. Somppi

This letter is to say that the Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital (CPDMH), and its emergency staff in particular, are to be commended for their dedication and consummate skill in dealing with emergencies.

I say this because, on Easter Sunday, I experienced severe chest pains and was taken to CPDMH by my daughter Carrie; where, I was immediately taken into the emergency room to be treated for a heart attack.

The rapidity with which your staff reacted and the short time it took to put a highly professional team together to look after me on an Easter Sunday afternoon with probably only minimum staff available, was truly amazing.

They promptly and efficiently undertook drug therapy, used a defibrillator to stabilize my condition, and then straight away, sent me to the Heart Institute for an angioplasty and the insertion of a stent into a main artery, which I’m sure, is why I suffered only minimal damage to my heart.

There is little doubt in my mind that, if they had not reacted as they did, I would not be here to-day to write this letter; and therefore, it would be greatly appreciated if you would pass on my heart felt thanks and that of my family to the following individuals

Dr. Laura Knebel
Kerri-Ann Campbell
Lorraine Cake
Lindsay Scollon
Joanne Boissanol

CPDMH is a wonderful organization filled with wonderful people dedicated to helping and saving people like me.
Thanks again,

Ed Sonnenburg

C.C Carleton Place Canadian
EMC