Connecticut Hospital Association (2026)

20/10/2026

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19/10/2026

New vaccine messaging tools for healthcare providers 🦠💉 Free campaign resources, including shareable sing-along videos and printable posters, are available on Connecticut Department of Public Health's immunizations web page 👉 https://ct.gov/dph/vaxvideos

The state campaign encourages Connecticut families to have conversations with their healthcare providers about the importance of staying up to date on recommended vaccines. Help spread the message and learn more in CHA's latest newsletter ➡️ https://cthosp.org/news-and-publications/cha-weekly-update/weekly-update-october-15-2026/ct-public-health-department-issues-respiratory-virus-vaccine-guidance/

05/10/2026

HOSPITAL SPOTLIGHT 🔦 This week we're featuring Backus and Windham Hospitals' Community Health Case Management Program, recipient of the 2026 Community Service Award! 🏠🥗🚌

The Community Health Case Management Program, operated jointly by Hartford HealthCare’s Backus and Windham Hospitals in the health system’s East Region, is a community-based care coordination model that goes beyond traditional hospital boundaries by embedding a dedicated interdisciplinary team directly into the community. The program makes care more accessible by building a sustainable, high-impact bridge between hospital and community.

This outreach program serves highly vulnerable populations, including individuals experiencing homelessness, seniors at risk of institutionalization, and historically underserved individuals facing complex social and medical barriers. Working in nonclinical settings, such as shelters, warming centers, senior housing complexes, soup kitchens, and senior centers, the team provides free basic health screenings (blood pressure, A1c, cholesterol via CLIA certificate), intensive case management and chronic disease support, wound care and medication reconciliation, nutrition counseling, and linkage to housing, food, transportation, and behavioral health resources.

Since the program was established in January 2023, the clinicians have facilitated more than 2,000 in-person community encounters, fostered more than 100 connections to community organizations, and submitted more than 400 referrals to healthcare services.

Read more 👉 https://cthosp.org/news-and-publications/cha-weekly-update/weekly-update-october-1-2026/hospital-spotlight-backus-and-windham-hospitals-community-health-case-management-program/

30/09/2026

Upcoming HIPAA training for hospital staff 👉 CHA is hosting an on-site program with attorney Jennifer Cox to review key trends in regulatory enforcement of protected health data and address the importance of prioritizing HIPAA security planning in the face of increasing cyberthreats.
📅 Wednesday, October 21, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., CHA in Wallingford

The session will focus on:
✅ Patient, provider, and government access rights
✅ Emerging state law data protections
✅ Data tracking and implications of “big data” and artificial intelligence
✅ Sensitive data challenges

Compliance professionals, privacy and security officers, risk managers, in-house counsel, health information/data management and health informatics professionals, and others with responsibilities for HIPAA compliance are encouraged to participate. REGISTER TODAY: https://cthosp.org/event/hipaa-privacy-security-breach-rules-keeping-current-to-remain-compliant-10-21/

28/09/2026

HOSPITAL SPOTLIGHT 🔦 This week we're featuring Yale New Haven Hospital's High-Risk Patient MRSA Prevention Initiative, recipient of the 2026 John D. Thompson Award! 👃🦠🛡️

Yale New Haven Hospital improved patient care by redesigning how high-risk patients are identified and treated to prevent hospital-onset bloodstream infections, shifting from reactive, variable practices to a standardized, proactive, risk-based nasal treatment process guided and validated by externally reported data.

Hospital-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bloodstream infections are associated with substantial morbidity, mortality, and cost. Despite adherence to established prevention strategies — such as hand hygiene, contact precautions, and chlorhexidine bathing — data revealed persistently elevated rates, signaling the need for a fundamental change in practice.

In response, a multidisciplinary team, including infection prevention, quality and safety, nursing leadership, supply chain, and executive sponsors, built and implemented a process focused on establishing early, consistent interventions based on patient risk rather than relying on surveillance testing or post-colonization response.

High-risk populations were clearly defined, including critically ill patients, those with central venous access devices, patients receiving hemodialysis, burn patients, and additional cohorts as data matured. Nasal treatment strategies are now matched to patient risk, allowing escalation for select highest-risk patients while maintaining broader prevention measures for others.

Read more 👉 https://cthosp.org/news-and-publications/cha-weekly-update/weekly-update-september-24-2026/hospital-spotlight-yale-new-haven-hospitals-high-risk-patient-mrsa-prevention-initiative/

25/09/2026

📣 Hospital OBGYN, psychiatry, nursing, social work, and mental health providers: Register today for an important training on CAPTA and Family Care Plans (FCPs) next week.

🏥 Know Your Role: An Overview of CAPTA and Family Care Plans for Hospital Providers
📅 Tuesday, September 29 | 9-11 a.m.
📍 Connecticut Hospital Association, Wallingford

Don't miss this opportunity to strengthen meaningful implementation of Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) and FCP requirements:
✔️ Understand the difference between a CAPTA notification and a DCF report.
✔️ Learn how to develop FCPs in collaboration with patients, families, and caretakers.
✔️ Access the CAPTA portal and submit notifications to DCF after a substance-exposed infant is born in the hospital.
✔️ Build confidence in having supportive, nonjudgmental conversations about substance use.

This in-person workshop wraps up the 2026 PROUD Summer Series, Strengthening Care for Parents in Recovery. REGISTER NOW 👉 https://cthosp.org/event/know-your-role-an-overview-of-capta-and-family-care-plans-for-hospital-providers-9-29/

25/09/2026

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston this week joined hospital leaders from across Connecticut for a roundtable discussion at CHA on the economic challenges and opportunities facing hospitals and health systems. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Susan M. Collins participated in the conversation, which explored inflation pressures, healthcare labor market trends, the long-term financial sustainability of hospitals, and how the Fed can support economic conditions favorable to growing patient access and world-class clinical care.

Connecticut hospital leaders in attendance included CHA Board of Trustees Chairman Jeffrey Flaks, president and CEO, Hartford HealthCare; CHA Board of Trustees Vice Chairman Kathy Silard, president and CEO, Stamford Health; Kurt Barwis, president and CEO, Bristol Health; Bob Duncan, executive vice president and chief operating officer, Connecticut Children's; Kyle Kramer, chief executive officer, Day Kimball Health; Michelle Robertson, market president, Northwell Health; Robert Roose, MD, president of acute care, Trinity Health Of New England; and Arnim Dontes, executive vice president/chief financial officer, Yale New Haven Health.

22/09/2026

Connecticut hospitals stand strong with 💪 Governor Lamont has declared September 21-25, 2026, in Connecticut!

CHA is a proud partner of Falls Free CT, a statewide coalition with a mission to reduce preventable falls through collaboration, resource development, education, and outreach. The coalition's falls prevention champions are committed to:

📚 Educating professionals and the public about the importance of falls prevention
📊 Gathering, analyzing, and monitoring falls prevention data and trends for developing falls prevention initiatives
🛡️ Implementing and enhancing community-based initiatives to reduce falls risks
🏡 Improving safety across home and public environments through modifications, new technologies, and injury-prevention policies

🔗 Learn more about Falls Free CT and access resources for patients, caregivers, and professionals at https://fallsfreect.org/

18/09/2026

Our new CHA Hospital Spotlight series continues with a feature on Ga***rd Specialty Healthcare's Sports Association 🎣🏀⛳🎾

Ga***rd Sports Association empowers people with permanent physical or visual impairments to “get back into the game of life.” What started as a basketball clinic in the Ga***rd Hospital parking lot three decades ago has grown into Connecticut’s largest adaptive sports program.

The Ga***rd Sports Association offers 17 different sports and recreation opportunities to thousands of adults with permanent physical and/or visual impairments in our state and beyond. Programs are offered for free or for a minimal registration fee. Participants do not have to have been a patient in Ga***rd’s system, although all Ga***rd Hospital patients recovering from life-altering illness or injury receive information about the program during their hospitalization.

Adaptive sports give people back more than movement … they restore confidence, purpose, quality of life, connection with others, and offer myriad long-term health benefits. It is just as intense and competitive as regular sports, and participants find the same drive and teamwork. Adaptive sport opportunities help people discover their abilities and enable participants to return to a sport they once loved, or find a new sport to connect with.

Opportunities include adaptive kayaking, waterskiing, rock climbing, cycling, archery, boccia, golf, pickleball, skiing, snowboarding, virtual boxing, yoga, Exercise for Life (high-intensity circuit training), and veterans-only programming like fishing and bowling for those with physical disabilities and/or PTSD.

Learn more 🔗➡ https://cthosp.org/news-and-publications/cha-weekly-update/weekly-update-september-17-2026/hospital-spotlight-gaylord-specialty-healthcares-gaylord-sports-association-get-back-into-the-game-of-life/

18/09/2026

Congratulations to 2026 CHA Healthcare Hero Eileen Woods, RN, MSN, Outcomes Coordinator, Quality Department 🌟 UConn Health Waterbury Hospital describes their honoree 👇

Rather than recognizing a single extraordinary moment or individual accomplishment, we have chosen one remarkable employee to symbolically represent the collective courage, resilience, loyalty, and unwavering commitment of an entire organization that refused to give up during one of the most difficult chapters in our hospital’s 130-plus-year history.

For over half a century, Eileen Woods has arrived each day with humility, compassion, professionalism, and an unshakable belief in the mission of community healthcare. Through generations of change, thousands of patients, and countless coworkers, she has remained a constant presence—steady, dependable, and deeply committed to serving others.

Eileen’s connection to UConn Health Waterbury Hospital began at just 15 years old while attending Holy Cross High School, when she joined the Candy Striper Volunteer Program. In 1979, while still a nursing student at Fairfield University, she began her career at the hospital as a trained aide. After graduating from nursing school, Eileen was hired as a registered nurse in the medical-surgical float pool and went on to build an exceptional career spanning decades. Throughout her tenure, she has served as an ICU nurse, nurse supervisor, and assistant director of the ICU and Telemetry units. She received a Master of Science in Nursing degree from University of Hartford while working as a nurse manager on the Telemetry unit. Eileen’s dedication to patient care and clinical excellence has earned her honors, including the prestigious Nightingale Award. Today, she continues to make a meaningful impact in her role as outcomes coordinator in the Quality Department, where she brings extensive nursing expertise and a steadfast commitment to quality care.

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