Healthier Communities Start Here | Hartford HealthCare

Every day, Hartford HealthCare touches 17,000 lives. And in every aspect of our work - from training to research to charitable care and screenings - Hartford HealthCare is committed to strengthening the communities we serve. During 2022, Hartford HealthCare’s investment in community benefit totaled more than $305 million dollars.

Healthier Communities in the News

April 19, 2024

Negative Experience Creates Strong Patient Advocate

What started as a negative experience — Julie Ciucias’ husband was brought to Hartford Hospital having a heart attack in [...]

February 22, 2024

BHN’s Community Support Services: ‘We Don’t Have Office Hours’

Mental health care doesn’t stop when the appointment ends. For those who live with severe persistent mental illness, the challenges [...]

February 16, 2024

Bringing Care Directly to Seniors

The Rose City Senior Center is where older residents of Norwich come for bingo, yoga and lunch with friends. Now, [...]

February 05, 2024

Thermal Scanners Help HHC Earn “A” Safety Ratings

The data wasn’t really making sense to Lisa Corbett, DNP. Why were patients experiencing pressure ulcers within a week of [...]

February 01, 2024

Providing Healthy Produce, Staples Helps Improve Health

For the 13.5 million U.S. households experiencing food insecurity, putting a healthy meal on the table is not as easy [...]

January 26, 2024

Turning Temporary Respite Into a New Life

Deborah Lawrence had never heard of the respite program at Rushford until a change in her living situation left her [...]

Here are a few examples of partnerships in our community

Brother Carl Hardrick Institute Partnership	more care in your community At Hartford HealthCare, we’re committed to health equity and bringing our experts where they are needed most. Hartford HealthCare Neighborhood Health. Learn more about Neighborhood Health	Hartford youths to refurbish laptops, distribute to community \| fox61.com
Hartford HealthCare and the City of Hartford partner to open the streets of Hartford for DominGO! Summer Event. Learn more about DominGO! Watch this video	Healthy Beginnings, part of Windham Hospital’s Women’s Health Center, brings info and support directly to new moms. Learn more about Healthy Beginnings	Rushford and the Meriden Police Department partner to create the Meriden Opioid Referral for Recovery (MORR) collaboration, offering crisis, addiction and mental health services to those in need. Learn more about MORR
The 36th Annual Swim Across the Sound Marathon will take place July 29, 2023. Swimmers cross Long Island Sound from Port Jefferson to Captains’ Cove Seaport in Bridgeport to raise funds and awareness to support oncology programs. Learn more and register	On November 4, 2023, Hartford HealthCare will provide critical medical services for free to our underserved communities. Now in its ninth year, the Medical Mission connects our communities to resources, follow-up care and more.

We are fully engaged in the exciting process of transforming healthcare.

We are moving from an old and broken “normal” model of care that is inefficient, hard to navigate and inequitable. Redefining healthcare to be “better than normal” has required us to challenge the status quo and repeatedly disrupt our own operations.

We face this task with clear-eyed motivation to enhance four dimensions of care:

Access

Making it easier for people to receive their care close to home in all the communities we serve. HHC continuously innovates to develop needed programs. We improve access not only through our facilities, but when we go to our patients in their homes and neighborhoods. Access, for us, includes information and education; behavioral health and telehealth; senior care and COVID clinics.

Affordability

We are creating and delivering more cost-effective and convenient options to health services. Increasingly, this means providing safe and efficient care outside of higher-cost settings like hospitals, with options in urgent care and ambulatory care centers and through a growing network of home-based and community services.

Equity

We are fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment in which our colleagues, customers and communities feel valued and respected. Equity includes targeted outreach to the most vulnerable, our Neighborhood Health initiative, free offerings for health education and a whole body of work that advance our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging efforts.

Excellence

Through our nationally recognized Institute model, we proudly recruit and retain the greatest experts to be our colleagues. Our coordinated model of care regularly earns HHC national recognition for excellence in quality and safety, research and innovation. We have achieved impressive firsts in several specialties, and regularly earn honors and accolades from independent quality and rating authorities.