Advocacy Alert

Our patients, our colleagues, and our community need your help. To close a severe budget shortfall, Governor Malloy targeted health care as one area to substantially trim state funding.  His proposal calls for unprecedented cuts to patient care reimbursements that, over the next two years, total more than $550 million to hospitals statewide and $30 million specifically to Western Connecticut Health Network.

These cuts could devastate hospitals and agencies that provide health and human services. Every patient, physician, hospital employee and community in the state will feel the impact. We will have to cut care. We will have to cut our workforce and our local economy will suffer as a result. It only takes a minute to help. Log onto ProtectmyHospitalCT.Org and send a message to legislators TODAY to oppose these cuts to patient care.

We challenge some of the Governor’s assumptions:

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