Danbury Hospital

Notable departments and offerings

• The Praxair Heart and Vascular center provides open heart surgery and coronary angioplasty to all the patients in need of care. Founded in 2003 the Center leads the state in outcome for cardiac surgery and heart and vascular treatment. Specialized care for valve disease, heart failure, electrical disease of the heart, percutaneous arterial treatment, in state-of-the-art new facilities. The provider for advanced tertiary care for over 500,000 people in Eastern New York and Western Connecticut.
• The Center for Weight Loss Surgery was started in the fall of 2002.
• The Praxair Cancer Center at Danbury Hospital is the Western Connecticut Affiliate of the Yale Cancer Center. Services range from prevention to aftercare. The Praxair Foundation, run by a company with offices in Danbury, contributed $4 million to the hospital to support cardiovascular care. The new center was dedicated in May 2006.
• Walgreens Pharmacy is a retail pharmacy on the first floor of the Stroock Building and is open seven days a week.
• Sleep Disorders Center
• Horblit Health Sciences Library A staffed health sciences library, with access to a collection of more than 300 books, 1300 ebooks, 3000 journals, and databases such as Access Emergency Medicine, Access Surgery, Clinical Key, DynaMed, RefWorks, and Micromedex. They also maintain a collection of board review materials for Internal Medicine, Surgery, Cardiology, and Primary Care, as well as providing open access journals that number in excess of 14,000.
• Complementary Alternative Medicine includes "programs designed specifically to complement and enhance traditional medicine, rather than replace it," according to the hospital's Web site. "On-site holistic services include therapeutic touch, reiki, and instruction on relaxation techniques. Staff also provides referrals for massage therapy, acupuncture, chiropractic treatment, hypnosis, biofeedback, nutritional experts, homeopathic practitioners, and naturopathic physicians. Patients may purchase magnets, herbs and vitamins through the program."

  Awards

• HealthGrades ranks Danbury Hospital in the top 5% across the United States for overall clinical performance - five years in a row: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009
• The only accredited chest pain center in Fairfield County, a level II trauma center and accredited stroke center.
• Healthgrades ranks Danbury Hospital in the top 5% in the United States for overall Cardiac Services - Two years in a row: 2008 and 2009
• Healthgrades ranks Danbury Hospital in the top 5 hospitals in Connecticut for the treatment of Stroke - Seven years in a row: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009
• Healthgrades ranks Danbury Hospital in the top 5 hospitals in Connecticut for Joint replacement - Two years in a row: 2008 and 2009
• Healthgrades ranks Danbury Hospital in the top 5% in the United States for Gastrointestinal Surgery in 2009
• Healthgrades ranks Danbury Hospital in the top 5% in the United States for overall Gastrointestinal Services - Two years in a row: 2008 and 2009
• Solucient LLC, a national firm providing statistical analysis of health care quality, named Danbury Hospital on its list of "100 Top Hospitals" for 2004, 2005 and 2006. to get "1A accreditation status" from the American College of Surgeons - the highest level of hospital achievement - for its quality, safety and reporting standards for weight-loss surgery.
• The American Society for Bariatric Surgery named Danbury Hospital as a bariatric surgery center of excellence in 2005.
• The hospital received "Accreditation with Commendation" from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
• The hospital received "2009 CoC Outstanding Achievement Award" from the American College of Surgeons

  Satellite locations

• Brookfield Family Medicine and the Brookfield Specimen Collection Facility, in the Greenknoll Professional Building, 60 Old New Milford Road
• Danbury Diagnostic Imaging Center opened in Danbury in 2001.
• Danbury: Seifert & Ford Family Community Health Center, 70 Main St. in downtown Danbury
• Danbury Specimen Collection Facility, 41 Germantown Road
• New Canaan Immediate Care, 38 East Avenue
• Ridgefield Diagnostic Imaging, and the Ridgefield Surgical Center LLC, 901 Ethan Allen Highway-Route 7. RDI offers a "full range of diagnostic services" for radiologic care, according to a hospital news release. The surgical center is a joint venture between Danbury Health Systems and local surgeons and offers outpatient surgery. Both units opened in the summer of 2006 at the same address.
• Ridgefield Specimen Collection Facility, 10 South St.
• Southbury: The Danbury Hospital Health Center, in the Southbury Medical Building at 22 Old Waterbury Road, offers three primary care practices: Primary Care of Southbury, Southbury Pediatrics and Southbury Geriatrics) along with specialist practices.

  Affiliations

History

Other area hospitals

• New Milford Hospital
• Griffin Hospital in Derby, Connecticut
• Norwalk Hospital
• Stamford Hospital
• Bridgeport Hospital