They provide high-quality care for everyone who walks through their doors.
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Caring for Connecticut
Connecticut hospitals are committed to putting patients first and providing the state with high-quality care. An outstanding hospital system is one that not only supports patient well-being, but also invests in local communities by partnering with others to improve health outcomes. In collaboration with providers across Connecticut, hospitals have remained dedicated to these efforts.
Hospitals and health systems serve communities in times of crisis and are critical to lifesaving response efforts. At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and their employees served on the front lines to ensure patients were receiving the best possible care. In the post-pandemic landscape, Connecticut hospitals continue to be the backbone of our communities through the care they provide, and the economic vitality they support. Hospitals’ commitment to building a skilled, diverse, and resilient workforce drives Connecticut’s economy and supports high-quality, coordinated, cost-effective, patient focused care.
Maintaining a strong hospital system is critical to keeping Connecticut’s people and economy healthy.
Connecticut hospitals are there when we need them.
Connecticut hospitals:
- Treat more than 1.5 million patients in their emergency departments
- Provide care for more than 336,000 admitted patients, accounting for more than 1.9 million days of inpatient care
- Provide nearly 10 million episodes of outpatient services to individuals
- Welcome more than 35,000 babies into the world
Hospital contributions to their communities extend far beyond great care and critical health services.
Connecticut hospitals and health systems provide valuable resources in the communities they serve and help Connecticut’s economy prosper and thrive.
Hospitals invest in healthcare spending:
- $8.5 billion spent on goods and services
- $8.3 billion created in "ripple effect" spending
- $16.8 billion: total impact of hospital spending
Hospitals invest in jobs:
- 119,421 employed by hospitals. Payroll: $10.3 billion
- 125,464 "ripple effect" jobs. Payroll $10.2 billion
- Total jobs: 244,885 and total payroll: $20.5 billion
Hospitals invest in capital improvements:
- $707 million spent on buildings and equipment
- $695 million additional economic activity generated
- $1.4 billion: total impact of spending on capital improvements
Hospitals contribute to community well-being.
Hospitals provide uncompensated, subsidized, and free health services, contributing to research, and supporting community health improvement and community building activities.
Connecticut hospitals contributed the following in community benefits in Fiscal Year 2022:
- $4.5 million in subsidized health services to provide care needed by the community
- $46.1 million in community health improvement services and operations
- $267 million in health professionals' education
- $7.3 million in community building to create stronger, healthier communities
- $15.7 million in research and other programs to advance healthcare for patients and the community
- $270.1 million in uncompensated care: Charity care/bad debt to provide services for those who cannot pay
- $37.8 million in donations to help support community organizations
- $1.23 billion in unpaid hospital care provided to Medicaid beneficiaries
- $1.55 billion in unpaid hospital care provided to Medicare beneficiaries
These data represent the most recently audited fiscal year, 2022, as reported to CHA by members.
