Sharon

SHARON — Two doctors from Sharon Hospital spent the first couple of weeks of October in Cambodia, seeing hundreds of patients in rural areas and getting back to their medical roots.
Gene Chin from the emergency department and hospitalist Mark Marshall went to the city of Siem Reap, a provincial capital in the northwestern part of the country, as part of a group of 15 medical professionals, under the aegis of Flying Doctors of America.

SHARON — There are times when destiny may not be apparent. Such is the life of David Cadwell, coordinator of the EMS Institute at Sharon Hospital. From 1970 to 1972 Cadwell, a conscientious objector, served as a medic with the U.S. Army in Vietnam.
Perhaps his personal feelings about war and mortality and his own experiences tending to the wounds of others set his life on a course of service, both volunteer and professional.

SHARON — Essent Healthcare (owner of Sharon Hospital) has completed its merger with Tennessee-based RegionalCare Hospital Partners. The deal was finalized Nov. 4.
The merger combines the four hospitals owned by RegionalCare, which are in Florence, Ala., Muscle Shoals, Ala., Ottumwa, Iowa, and Wilmington, Ohio; and the three hospitals owned by Essent, which the press release from the companies describe as “market-leading, non-urban acute care hospitals.”
In addition to Sharon Hospital the company has a hospital in Waynesburg, Pa., and Paris, Texas.

SHARON — Power was slowly being restored to Sharon residents and businesses by Tuesday morning but First Selectman Robert Loucks said the firehouse would remain open as a shelter for as long as needed.
About a dozen people sought shelter at the emergency center on Monday night. Volunteers cooked breakfast for them on Tuesday morning.
“Sharon Farm Market donated food that the fire department is using to feed shelter visitors,” Loucks reported.