New Database Reveals Patient Death, Violations in CT Hospitals

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.

According to C-HIT, one hospital was cited for several violations that preceded a newborn’s death in 2016 including the fact that oxygen was ordered for the mother during labor but she was never given any.

C-HIT also reports that a colonoscopy pouch was sewn to the wrong part of the patient's colon at a hospital. Other violations cited in hospitals across Connecticut include: a tool left inside a patient's chest after a procedure, a newborn fell from a bassinet while being moved by a nurse, and anesthesia was applied to the wrong eye prior to surgery.

In the first of its kind, the C-HIT team last 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 2016 through the first few months of 2017.

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.

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.