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Hospital Quality

I-Team In-Depth

Connecticut Hospitals Don’t Make ‘Top Performer’ List

By Lisa Chedekel | September 20, 2012

Connecticut is the only New England state—and one of just three nationally—to have no hospitals designated as “Top Performers” by The Joint Commission, which issued an annual report gauging the performance of more than 3,300 accredited hospitals on 45 accountability measures linked to positive patient outcomes.

Adverse Events

Hospital Errors Persist, State Probes Rare

By Lisa Chedekel | January 29, 2012

Incidents of pressure ulcers, wrong-site surgeries and other surgical errors reported by Connecticut hospitals have increased in the last five years, despite myriad efforts to curb them, a new state report shows.