Windham Hospital

Hartford Healthcare said it’s reviewing its legal options after the state Office of Health Strategy denied the health system’s application to permanently close the decades-old maternity ward at Windham Hospital.

Hartford Healthcare said Wednesday it is reviewing its legal options after the state Office of Health Strategy denied the health system’s application to permanently close the decades-old maternity ward at Windham Hospital. Meanwhile, advocates who’ve fought the closure for the past two years called for obstetrics services to now be fully restored at the hospital, which is located in...

Nurses and hospital staff at Windham Hospital haven’t reached a contract agreement after six months of negotiations and picketed out front Monday.

Nurses and hospital staff at Windham Hospital haven’t reached a contract agreement after six months of negotiations and picketed out front Monday. Employees, including lab technicians and food services, held signs and marched in a circle today outside the hospital Monday. Leaders for the two unions representing them said their contracts ended in December. They said they went to...

Union workers at Windham Hospital who are in contract negotiations are picketing Monday. They said they have several concerns, including a lack of safe patient limits.

Windham Hospital is embarking on a new opportunity to get students in the health care industry. Hospital staff are partnering with educators at Windham High school to create a nursing curriculum. “So when students graduate from high school, they will have the opportunity, the training they need,” said Windham Hospital President Donna Handley. Windham juniors and seniors will get a…

To help students get into the healthcare industry, Windham Hospital is creating a curriculum to for Windham High School students. This will allow them to work in the hospital instead of college.

The maternity units at three rural hospitals have closed, forcing women to drive at least a half hour to another hospital to give birth.

Three hospitals in rural areas of Connecticut have ended their birthing services, forcing some women to travel farther to give birth.

A UConn student is in the hospital after falling out of a window at a residence hall at the University of Connecticut in Storrs late Tuesday night.

State police are investigating after a woman who was trapped in a house fire in Windham has died.

Don’t let a heart attack or a stroke be your wake up call. Heart disease is the number one killer of women, causing one in three deaths each year, according to the American Heart Association.

Memorial Sloan Kettering clinical trials are now available for Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute patients.

A teenager has died after a crash on Route 6 in Mansfield on Tuesday night.

A 28-year-old man has died after a crash in Willimantic early Sunday morning.

Anthem and Hartford HealthCare have reached an agreement that puts Anthem members back in-network with the healthcare provider.

Anthem and Hartford Healthcare each announced Sunday that the two had failed to come to a new in-network provider agreement, meaning hundreds of thousands of Anthem policyholders will now be treated as “out-of-network” patients in Hartford Healthcare facilities.

A stalemate between Anthem and Hartford HealthCare left Blue Cross Blue Shield patients out-of-network at five Connecticut hospitals, but just one day after the missed contract renewal deadline, the hospital group announced it had reached a “multi-year agreement” with the state’s largest health insurer.