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No CT hospitals make top quality list

By Ellen Andrews | September 19, 2012

The national experts who are responsible for accrediting US hospitals, the Joint Commission, has just released their list of 620…

State Employee wellness program working

By Ellen Andrews | September 19, 2012

Preliminary results from the new Health Enhancement Program (HEP) for state employees show decreasing use of specialists and increasing use…

New uninsured brief posted

By Ellen Andrews | September 14, 2012

Check our uninsured brief for more information on the drop in uninsured CT residents last year. See where the gains came…

Census finds 94,000 more CT residents had health coverage last year

By Ellen Andrews | September 12, 2012

New US Census numbers found that the number of uninsured CT residents dropped to 303,000 last year from 397,000 in…

Kaiser taking guesses on uninsured number

By Ellen Andrews | September 10, 2012

New Census figures on the number of Americans without health coverage last year are due out Wednesday morning. Experts expect…

RFI for state employee Health Enhancement Program support

By Ellen Andrews | September 7, 2012

The Office of State Comptroller has released a Request for Information for data, support, chronic care coordination and monitoring services…

CEPAC coming to CT December 6th

By Ellen Andrews | September 7, 2012

The New England Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council (CEPAC) will hold our next meeting here in CT — December 6th…

LHP takeover of Waterbury hospitals may be off

By Ellen Andrews | September 6, 2012

News outlets are reporting that LHP Hospital Group, the for-profit Texas company planning to purchase both Waterbury and St. Mary’s…

Insurance Company Shenanigans – Part 2

By Ellen Andrews | September 6, 2012

If you live in CT and are insured through Golden Rule, now also known as United Healthcare’s United HealthOne; you…