Hospitals

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.

ECNH and Waterbury Health medical facilities are still having issues nearly three weeks after a cyber attack crippled their computer systems.

A neonatal nurse in a British hospital has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others during a yearlong campaign of deception when she preyed on the vulnerabilities of premature and sick newborns as well as their anxious parents.

Brittany Mahomes shared that her and Patrick Mahomes’ 8-month-old son Bronze recently had a scary trip to the emergency room, which occurred not long after learning he has a severe peanut allergy.

Many hospitals say they’ve skipped, delayed or rationed medications, including critical cancer drugs, as the crisis across the country continues.

Some medical facilities in both the Eastern Connecticut Health Network and Waterbury Health systems remained closed Friday, a day after an apparent cyber attack against their parent company.

A major New York City hospital is facing allegations that hospital officials ignored a star physician’s rampant sexual abuse of patients for more than a decade.

It is important — if one has the choice — to consider the hospital you want for medical care. The hospital you choose generally plays a part in your risk of dying or your chances of recovery. Upwards of 250,000 people die every year from preventable errors in hospitals, according to The Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit health care watchdog group….