Hospitals

Lawmakers say they want to help Connecticut’s struggling hospitals this upcoming session – something that was a priority even before Prospect Medical Holdings filed for bankruptcy. In the wake of that filing, though, lawmakers now also want additional regulations around private equity firms that own hospitals. “First and foremost, we need to make sure that private equity keeps their greedy…

The decision by Prospect Medical Holdings to file for bankruptcy has put the spotlight back on Connecticut’s hospitals and the financial woes they face. Lawmakers say some difficult decisions might need to be made.

An IV fluid maker in Florida temporarily closed down Wednesday ahead of Hurricane Milton, but there haven’t been any new shortages yet.

A Connecticut family whose day-old infant died of a massive hemorrhage in February filed a lawsuit accusing a Greenwich Hospital delivery doctor of vacuuming the newborn’s head more than a dozen times during birth.

State leaders called the financial situation dire for community hospitals like Manchester Memorial, Waterbury Hospital, and Rockville General, especially since the cyberattacks to Eastern Connecticut Hospital Networks (ECHN) systems this summer. “Smaller hospitals have been going through financial challenges across the state, that’s one thing that we have seen,” said Sen. Saud Anwar (D-South Windsor), co-chair of the state’s...

State lawmakers are discussing a deal for Yale New Haven Health systems to acquire various Eastern CT health network hospitals, but a recent cyberattack could be putting that deal into jeopardy.