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New MVHS CEO, Darlene Stromstad, was former CEO of an effort to merge two hospitals in Waterbury. It was unsuccessful and today Waterburry has two different healthcare systems and two hospitals; Saint Mary’s Hospital and Waterbury Hospital.

#NoHospitalDowntown Investigates


June 3, 2019 - What is the truth of this city's "downtown" hospitals...

Investigating Waterbury, what of their downtown's history? We see this, Downtown Waterbury Historic District, the Google map to their Waterbury Village Green. Most importantly medically, how is their healthcare?

Between the Village Green and St. Mary's Hospital is the University of Connecticutt, visit the college's website UConn.


Waterbury Hospital...

Is the largest private employer in the Greater Waterbury region, and serves a vital role in the economic vitality of Western Connecticut. It is a private, non-profit acute care teaching hospital licensed for 367 beds and affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine, the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. Founded in 1890 as Waterbury’s first and Connecticut’s fourth hospital, Waterbury Hospital is a full-service community health-care institution with centers of excellence in primary care, cardiac services, behavioral health and orthopaedics.

Waterbury Hospital On USNews Health and on LeapFrog.

Saint Mary’s Health System

Is a leading regional healthcare provider anchored by Saint Mary’s Hospital, an acute care community teaching hospital that has served Greater Waterbury for more than 100 years. Licensed for 347 beds, Saint Mary’s is designated as a Level II Trauma Center and Primary Stroke Center, offers award-winning cardiac care and houses the region’s only pediatric emergency care unit. As the leading provider of surgical services in Greater Waterbury, Saint Mary’s was the first to introduce the daVinci® Robotic Surgery System. The health system’s satellites and affiliates extend from Waterbury to Wolcott, Naugatuck, Southbury, Prospect and Watertown.

Saint Mary’s On USNews Health and on LeapFrog.


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April 9, 2019 - EXCLUSIVE: Prospect’s credit down

Prospect also said in the statement that the financial and clinical performance of the Connecticut hospitals it owns have been strong since it acquired them in 2016. In addition to Manchester Memorial and Rockville General in Vernon, Prospect also acquired Waterbury Hospital that year.


October 9, 2018 - About Half Of Connecticut's Health Systems Are Profitable, But Financial Picture Is Worsening... nine of the 16 health systems in Connecticut ended 2017 in the black, according to a report by the state Office of Health Strategy.

October 8, 2018 - In the news, Medicare To Penalize, with Waterbury Hospital at top (2.19 percent).


September 17, 2018 - News reports, Holiday Inn is coming down in Waterbury...

Former hotel site to be part of hospital complex... a contractor hired by Saint Mary’s Hospital has begun tearing down the former Holiday Inn Express on Union Street. The building is owned by the hospital, which acquired it for $4.1 million in 2013. The hotel had been purchased two years earlier by LHP Hospital Group in anticipation of merging the city’s two...


November 2017 - Waterbury teams offers their, Innovation Places: Final Strategic Plan


March 22, 2017 - Greater Waterbury HEALTH Network Announces Change in Leadership

Today, Lester Schindel, was named interim CEO of Waterbury HEALTH. Schindel replaces Darlene Stromstad who served on the role for nearly six years leading the network through the transition from non-profit to private ownership under Prospect Medial Holdings Inc. Stromstad was instrumental in leading the organization’s nationwide partnership search and successful transition to Prospect. During her tenure, Waterbury Hospital has been recognized for its clinical excellence by a number of national organizations and has earned praise for its patient-centered culture. Given her expertise in hospital turnarounds, Darlene will be providing support to Prospect for organizations that require support. She will also be available to support Les during the transition.

For more information contact Patty Charvat, pcharvat@wtbyhosp.org, +1(203)573-6718


March 5, 2017 - St. Vincent’s says no merger or sale on horizon

...the plan fell apart over a number of stumbling blocks, particularly around women’s health care. As a Catholic hospital, St. Mary’s follows the religious directives of Catholic Health Services, which prohibit some procedures commonly offered elsewhere. These include abortion and contraception, but also tubal ligations and vasectomies.

A combined hospital that followed the religious guidelines, which St. Mary’s required as a condition of a merger, would have left Waterbury and surrounding towns without a hospital that could offer those services, which brought objections from the state and women’s advocacy groups.

After more than a year of talks, the hospitals finally dropped the plan. Waterbury Hospital has since sought approval to be acquired by Prospect Medical Holdings, a for-profit health care company, while St. Mary’s in 2015 agreed to become part of Trinity Health, a Catholic health care organization with operations in 21 states.

For St. Vincent’s, a potential conversion to a for-profit hospital from its current nonprofit status would require approval of the state’s attorney general and Department of Public Health. New ownership that would maintain nonprofit status would require approval from DPH and its Office of Healthcare Access.


October 05, 2016 - Ardent Health Services And LHP Hospital Group, Inc. Announce Plans To Merge


March 3, 2016 - Hospital Seeks Approval - Waterbury Sends Letter To State Regarding Prospect Acquisition

For the third time in four years, Waterbury Hospital has formally applied to the state to be bought by a for-profit company.

The hospital’s parent company, Greater Waterbury HEALTH Network, on Thursday filed a Certificate of Need letter of determination with the state Office of the Attorney General and the Office of Health Care Access, seeking approval to be acquired by Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. in a $100 million deal, the two organizations announced Friday.

GWHN in May signed a letter of intent to be acquired by Prospect, which owns 13 hospitals and 40 clinics in California, Rhode Island and Texas. Prospect, whose hospitals have a total of 2,258 licensed beds, also manages the provision of healthcare services for about 257,000 members enrolled in its networks of almost 9,000 primary care physicians and specialists.

“Prospect is an innovative healthcare company that will provide the expertise and resources to help us strengthen and enhance access to the delivery of high quality, cost-effective services for the community,” GWHN President and CEO Darlene Stromstad said in a statement. “We are excited to be moving this partnership forward.”


May 9, 2015 - Cautious Optimism For Workers In Waterbury Hospital's Third Merger Try

...Prospect's early willingness to work with the unions and to accept the current collective bargaining agreements, is raising hopes that this could be, at long last, the right merger for a hospital that some say must have a partner to survive. It's been a tumultuous three years, even by the standards of the topsy-turvy health care world. The hospital has seen two failed merger deals, three rounds of layoffs, tense union contract talks that went into overtime and, just last month, a comment by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy in the Republican-American newspaper that Waterbury probably can't support two hospitals.

Both of the previous merger deals included St. Mary's, the other hospital in town, which is generally stronger financially. This one does not. And unlike the last one, with Tenet, this deal is not part of a complicated arrangement. The Tenet deal involved five Connecticut hospitals under the clinical umbrella of Yale-New Haven Hospital.

How, then, can Prospect, a small player in the national hospital game, make a good offer that supports Waterbury Hospital's staffing and strengthens its market position when others have failed, or in the case of Hartford HealthCare, did not try?

Reardon, at Prospect, declined to talk with me about the merger, saying through a spokesman that it's too soon without a final deal worked out. But there are reasons to support the optimism of union leaders, rank-and-file workers and hospital management.

Darlene Stromstad, the Waterbury Hospital CEO, who has worked toward a merger since she arrived in 2011, said she has guarded optimism.


May 26, 2014 -Independent hospitals weigh strategic alliance

St. Mary’s Hospital faces competitive pressures from cross-town rival Waterbury Hospital. St. Mary’s is considering joining an independent hospital alliance.


October 13, 2012 - Waterbury Hospital calls Saint Mary’s merger over...

Calling it an investment in “the impossible,” Waterbury Hospital on Friday made official what many in the region had already guessed: the effort to merge with Saint Mary’s Hospital is over. The announcement comes about six weeks after LHP Hospital Group Inc. of Plano, Texas – the third partner in and catalyst for the proposed merger – had sent letters to both Waterbury and Saint Mary’s hospitals terminating the joint venture agreement signed in August 2011 that would have resulted in construction of a new, for-profit, $400 million state-of-the-art hospital. LHP also removed its representatives from the city shortly after sending its letter.


June 11, 2012 - Waterbury hospitals’ proposed merger spurs hopes and concerns

The hopes and tensions underlying the proposed acquisition and merger of Waterbury’s two hospitals were exposed during a public forum in Hartford Monday. While Waterbury’s mayor said the plan could revitalize his struggling city, hospital union members said they felt ignored by the private entity that would acquire the new, merged hospital, and others said they were wary of the influence of the Catholic Church.

They said they hope to piece together enough land to make the hospital the centerpiece of downtown Waterbury. They estimate the facility would take four years to build and would create more than 700 construction jobs. “This is the most important economic opportunity the city of Waterbury has seen in my lifetime,” the city’s mayor, Neil O’Leary, told the panel, adding that he hopes doctors’ offices might fill some of the empty buildings downtown.


March 12, 2012 - Could There Be A More Visible Spot For A New $400 Million Hospital In Waterbury?

During an interview last month Waterbury Hospital CEO Darlene Stromsted told the Waterbury Observer that high visibility was one of the factors being considered in deciding where to build a $400 million replacement hospital. The electrifying development of a new hospital in the city emerged in September...

Mayor Neil O'Leary is lobbying hard to get the hospital built in downtown, and if his efforts are successful, could there be a more visible site than the one Saint Mary's Hospital sits on now? Every day there are 45,000 vehicles driving west on I-84 that sweep around a big curve and come face-to-face with Saint Mary's Hospital. If the new hospital is built on that site it will redefine the landscape in Waterbury, and project a modernized image of the Brass City.


September 1, 2011 - St. Mary’s still has plans for downtown after merger

Plans for a merger between the Waterbury Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital will not affect plans for St. Mary’s to build a medical office in Naugatuck as part of the borough’s downtown development project, according to St. Mary’s President and CEO Chad Wable.

On Aug. 25, the borough interviewed five planning and engineering firms that responded to a request for qualifications to design a 500-space parking garage on Parcel C. The $10 million garage would support the medical offices and the train station.

In April, the borough received a $500,000 grant from the state Department of Economic and Community Development to pay for the design.


August 24, 2011 - With Merged Hospitals, What Happens to Naugatuck Medical Facility?

A board member for Saint Mary's Hospital said, if it financially made sense back when it was proposed, then it would make sense now.

It has been considered one of the in the massive Renaissance Place project, which is a plan to renovate downtown Naugatuck to attract businesses and residents.


August 23, 2011 - LHP Hospital Group, Inc. Announces That The Waterbury Hospital Will Join Saint Mary’s Hospital in Connecticut Joint Venture...

PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE) - Plans for a New State-of-the-Art Hospital Officials at LHP Hospital Group, Inc. (LHP, but now ArdentHealth) ....announced that they have signed a letter of intent to merge the previously announced joint venture (JV) between LHP Hospital Group, Inc. (LHP) and Saint Mary’s Health System, Inc. (Saint Mary’s) with the Greater Waterbury Health Network, Inc. (GWHN) which includes The Waterbury Hospital.

“These two fine hospitals have provided quality health care services to the Greater Waterbury region for more than 100 years, and LHP is honored to become a part of that tradition and the exciting future that lies ahead.”

The combined joint venture will invest $400 million to construct a new state-of-the-art medical center that will replace both The Waterbury Hospital and Saint Mary's Hospital. The combined revenue of both hospitals will be over $520 million, making it one of the larger hospitals in the State of Connecticut.

“This is a momentous day for The Waterbury Hospital and the community we serve,” said Carl Contadini, Chairman of The Waterbury Hospital Board of Trustees. “After thoroughly analyzing the health care needs of the Greater Waterbury region, we concluded that coming together with LHP and Saint Mary’s to build a modern, state-of-the-art replacement facility would bring the best in health care to patients for generations to come. We will not only create new construction jobs and help the local economy but we will position the Greater Waterbury community to become the regional leader for health care services in southern New England. We could not be more pleased.”


June 1, 2011 - Malloy dives into hospital debate over women’s services


March 28, 2011 - Landscape shifts in Waterbury

In fact, a 2007 report from the state Office of Health Care Access concluded that health care services in the Waterbury were “fragmented, competitive and in financial distress,” and that the long-term viability of the health care delivery system there was at risk. The report concluded that having two hospitals in the city may not be economically viable and that St. Mary’s appeared to be insolvent at the time. The report suggested a merger between the two hospitals, or even the closure of St. Mary’s Hospital, as potential options.

Waterbury Hospital, which recently named Darlene Stromstad of Goodall Hospital in Maine as its new CEO, posted a loss — a negative 1.98 percent margin — during fiscal 2009.


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