Updated Database Reveals Patient Deaths, Violations in CT Hospitals: Report

Several patient deaths, including the death of a newborn who was given an overdose of medication, were among various violations found at Connecticut hospitals, according to newly released inspection reports from state health officials, the Connecticut Health-Investigative Team reports.

In the first of its kind, the C-HIT team earlier this year 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, which includes inspections at hospitals in Connecticut from late 2015 through April of 2016.

The new updated reports include information on some patient deaths at hospitals and some other patients who suffered injuries, according to C-HIT.

In this database you can read the entire inspection report and violation along with the hospital’s corrective action. The inspection reports and violations date back to 2013-2015.

In the newly updated reports, C-HIT states several violations were found at Yale-New Haven Hospital including a case in July 2015 where a newborn died after being given too much amiodarone. Too much medication may have been administered due to a “default frequency” that was automatically entered into the computer system, C-HIT reports.

A patient at Yale-New Haven Hospital also died after having a heart attack during an eye surgery procedure in January 2015, C-HIT reports. Also a patient died at Norwalk Hospital after possibly overdosing on medication in April 2012, C-HIT reports.

Numerous other violations were found at hospitals in Connecticut.

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.

The 29 hospitals in the C-HIT database include:

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