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Faces of Hartford HealthCare

The Faces of Hartford Healthcare project is focused on sharing the stories of the women and men who provide and support bedside patient care in the chain's hospitals and facilities.
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HOPE Unions Vision Statement

H.O.P.E. is the Hartford Healthcare Organization of Professional Employees of Backus, Natchaug and Windham Hospitals. We are committed, in solidarity, to providing the highest quality care to our families and community. We believe that by uniting and elevating the voices of our frontline workers, we become the best advocates for our patients and each other. We are proud to be the H.O.P.E. of the region.
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Help share this important message to raise awareness of the risks of unsafe staffing levels to you, your colleagues and your patients.
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Demanding Better from Hartford HealthCare

Watch and share the latest spot exposing how Hartford HealthCare mistreats their own professional caregivers and worsens our nation’s medical debt crisis.

A Letter to All of Connecticut's Communities

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We are the presidents of two local healthcare unions and would like to make you aware of what’s been happening inside the walls of  our local hospital.

Since Hartford HealthCare (HHC) took over Windham Community Memorial Hospital (WCMH), we have seen a dramatic shift from patient care to corporate profits. HHC’s “partnership” and acquisition of WCMH has led to the loss of vital services such as our Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and our Labor and Delivery Unit. HHC is currently named in a class-action lawsuit for overcharging patients in its tier system. The chain has also been taken to court by

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"Is this How HHC Treats Patients?"

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Hartford HealthCare (HHC) executives pride themselves for claiming to demonstate core values like integrity, caring, excellence and safety. In reality, many of their "business" practices are highly questionable. This is especially true when it comes to the treatment of their own employees.
 
Right now, the nurses and health professionals employed by HHC at Windham Community Memorial Hospital (WCMH) are in effect "underinsured." Their limited coverage fails to meet their family's healthcare needs, leaving them with significant out-of-pocket expenses. 
 
Bree Eichler has worked as a paramedic since
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More Than Luck to Find Affordable, Quality Healthcare

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Are you feeling lucky when it comes to your health? Here in Connecticut, it can take more than luck to find local affordable, quality care. Chains like Hartford HealthCare (HHC) have been gambling with your well-being and that needs to change.

HHC has for years been cornering the market in communities all across our state by gobbling up smaller practices and limiting patients to physicians under their umbrella of control.

More recently, HHC executives closed the maternity ward at Windham Community Memorial Hospital (WCMH) which has forced expectant mothers to travel a long way from home to

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State Regulators Cite Hartford HealthCare Over Windham Hospital Maternity Services Cut

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The community coalition spearheading efforts to restore Windham Hospital's labor and delivery care for the region's mothers and babies expresses hope that this unprecedented enforcement action signals meaningful change. Read and share their press release. MORE

Heartless Hartford HealthCare

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Love is in the air... or is it? Hartford HealthCare (HHC) claims to love the communities it serves, but it has consistently cut services at many of the facilities it owns and operates.  Over a year ago, HHC executives closed the maternity ward at Windham Community Memorial Hospital (WCMH), sending expectant mothers far away to deliver their babies. Before that it was the Intesive Care Unit (ICU) on the chopping block. MORE

New Year's Resolutions

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The dawn of a new year means new beginnings, celebrating the start of new lives. But this year some communities couldn't welcome their Baby New Year.

Hartford HealthCare (HHC) executives have closed the maternity ward at Windham Community Memorial Hospital (WCMH), sending expectant mothers far away to deliver their babies.

As more community hospitals are taken over by larger healthcare chains, like HHC, a nationwide trend of 'healthcare deserts' has emerged. Windham County is slowly becoming one such area. This decision was made without consulting the community. HHC also failed to follow the law

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