Connecticut news and information

Though it might seem counterintuitive, healthcare design experts are saying standardization is the key to flexibility—and the ability to be flexible can mean the difference between going ahead with a construction project or going through another round of costly planning and trying to predict...
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HARTFORD, Conn.—One of Connecticut's largest hospitals could be the first hospital to join Ascension Health Care Network, a private equity-backed effort to launch a for-profit Catholic health system. St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, signed an exclusive letter of...
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Connecticut hospitals are warning of layoffs and reductions in programs and services as they face a one-two punch of budget cuts from the state and federal governments that could cost them billions of dollars in revenue over the next decade.
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One of Connecticut's largest hospitals has entered into talks to be the first hospital to join Ascension Health Care Network, a private-equity backed effort to launch a for-profit Catholic system.
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How sad that it took Newtown, Connecticut's horrific tragedy to finally focus the nation's attention on two pressing public health problems.
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Pina Violano, the injury prevention coordinator at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, has worked to take many dangerous guns off the streets, including an AK-47, an Uzi, a TEC-9 semiautomatic pistol and two Bushmaster-made assault rifles like the one used in the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre.
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“Danbury Hospital received two children and one adult. … When we announced that there would be no more transports and all of the patients who would be coming were already here, there was enormous sadness. Everyone recognized what that meant. We had been told at least 24 had been shot.
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Striking nursing home workers in Connecticut said Wednesday they were hopeful about returning to work next week under a judge's order after five months on the picket lines.
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States expanding their Medicaid programs must broaden Medicaid eligibility to the full extent laid out in the reform law in order to get full federal matching funds to help pay for the new coverage.
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Veteran IBM Corp. executive Marc Lautenbach has been named president and CEO of Pitney Bowes, the Stamford, Conn.-based provider of communications technologies and services for healthcare and other industries.
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