50-Year Tradition of Service to the Bridgeport Hospital Community

During the past five decades, the Auxiliary has raised more than $4 million, helping to bring the latest technologies and the finest facilities to the hospital’s patients and staff, including

  • Maternity Unit Renovations
  • Coronary and Medical Intensive Care Unit Renovations
  • Emergency Room Renovations (1970s)
  • Burn Center – Hubbard Tank
  • Linear Accelerator
  • Coffee Shop Renovations
  • Ambulatory Care Projects
  • Surgical and Critical Care Waiting Room
  • Surgical and Recovery Unit Monitoring Equipment
  • Rehabilitation Unit Renovations
  • Critical Care Unit Renovations
  • Burn Center Renovations
  • Emergency Department Expansion (2008-10)
  • Gift Shop Renovations

Each year, the Auxiliary supports nursing education with scholarships and advanced education awards to students of the Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing.

Mini-grants are made to staff members in support of patient education and other modest or short-term projects.


During the winter holidays, Auxiliary board members distribute live poinsettia plants to hospitalized patients.


Chairman of Emergency Medicine Michael Werdmann, MD, thanks Auxiliary Vice President Ilene Feldman, Fund-raising Chair Toni Zeleny, and President Judy Brown for the auxiliary's $500,000 pledge towards ED expansion.