Patient Death, Violations At 29 CT Hospitals Revealed In Database

No one wants to go the hospital, but if you do or if a loved one needs to, you're likely going to want to check out this updated searchable in-depth database prepared by the Connecticut Health-Investigative Team. Newly released inspection reports from state health officials reveal violations at numerous hospitals that compromised patient safety, C-HIT reports.

The inspection reports are from 2016 through September 2018. Hospitals with several violations include Bridgeport Hospital, 26, and Hartford Hospital, 60. Two violations preceded patient deaths at Hartford Hospital, according to C-HIT.

In one incident at Bridgeport Hospital, a surgeon ended up burning a patient by using an electrical surgery device along with a flammable surgical preparatory solution, C-HIT reports. The surgeon in this case was working on three surgeries at the same time, the report notes.

During a surgery at Hartford Hospital a piece of a broken needle was left inside the patient's body, according to C-HIT. After each violation, hospitals are required to take corrective action and devise plans, which you can view in the C-HIT database.

In the first of its kind, the C-HIT team in 2016 compiled a massive database of every hospital in Connecticut and includes reports of violations found during inspections. Now, the C-HIT team has just updated the database. In this database you can read the entire inspection report and violation along with the hospital's corrective action.

You can read more about each of the 29 hospitals in CT by clicking on this link and searching C-HIT's database of violations and inspection reports. You can view one hospital at a time.

Here are the 29 hospitals included in the database:

Backus Hospital

Bridgeport Hospital

Bristol Hospital

Charlotte Hungerford Hospital

Connecticut Children's Medical Center

Danbury Hospital

Day Kimball Hospital

Greenwich Hospital

Griffin Hospital

Hartford Hospital

Johnson Memorial Hospital

Lawrence & Memorial Hospital

Middlesex Hospital

MidState Medical Center

Milford Hospital

New Milford Hospital

Norwalk Hospital

Rockville General

Saint Francis Hospital Medical Center

Saint Mary's Hospital

Sharon Hospital

St. Vincent Medical Center

Stamford Hospital

The Hospital of Central Connecticut

University of Connecticut Health Center/John Dempsey Hospital

Waterbury Hospital

Windham Hospital

Yale-New Haven Hospital

To view the C-HIT database and read the violations by hospital click here.