Employees, State Leaders Look Forward as UConn Health Announces Plan to Acquire Waterbury Hospital

Employees, state leaders look forward as UConn Health announces plan to acquire Waterbury Hospital

WATERBURY, Conn. (WTNH) — UConn Health will acquire Waterbury Hospital under a deal announced Tuesday by Gov. Ned Lamont. The deal will likely see hundreds of millions of dollars in new state investment into the hospital, which has suffered years of tumult amidst questions about its future. Its current owner is the now-bankrupt Prospect Medical [...]

Lamont’s Hospital Takeover Plan is a Gamble Connecticut Cannot Afford

UConn Health — the state’s public medical center that includes the UConn School of Medicine, the School of Dental Medicine, and John Dempsey Hospital — is now at the center of Governor Ned Lamont’s plan to acquire struggling hospitals across Connecticut.   In a special session scheduled for Nov. 12 and 13, the governor is asking lawmakers to give UConn Health broad new authority to create subsidiaries and joint ventures capable of buying, operat…