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Bridgeport Hospital Initiatives
Bridgeport Hospital is a not-for-profit 425-bed teaching hospital located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and is a teaching affiliate of the Yale School of Medicine. Bridgeport Hospital is a full service acute care community teaching hospital that offers more than 60 sub-specialties. In Fiscal Year 2007, the Hospital recorded approximately 19,000 inpatient discharges and over 218,000 outpatient visits including more than 67,000 emergency department visits.
Bridgeport Hospital is the site of the only specialized burn care facility between New York and Boston and a regional American College of Surgeons-approved trauma center. Other specialties at Bridgeport Hospital include the Heart Institute, the Norma F. Pfriem Cancer Institute, the Norma F. Pfriem Breast Care Center, the Birthplace, the P.T. Barnum Pediatric Center, including a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, the Pediatric Asthma Center and a Children’s Emergency Center, the Joint Reconstruction Center, advanced neurosurgical services, mental health services including inpatient care, a 24-hour emergency crisis service, geriatric assessment service and day hospital programs, Bloodless Medicine and Surgery Program and occupational health programs for area employers.
In Fiscal Year (FY) 2007, Bridgeport Hospital provided a total of $25.6 million in free and charity care, bad debt expense and Medicaid shortfall. The hospital provided uncompensated care for more than 28,400 inpatient discharges and outpatient visits, which totaled $13.3 million (calculations based on costs not charges). This included $11.6 million for the provision of free and charity care and $1.7 million in bad debt expense. In addition, the hospital had a total of 68,580 Medicaid inpatient discharges or outpatient visits. The total payments received from Medicaid for this patient population were $12.3 million below the actual cost of providing care for these patients.
Bridgeport is the most populous city in Connecticut, and the fifth-largest city in New England. Located in Fairfield County, the city has an estimated population of 138,000. The city is the core of the Greater Bridgeport area, which itself is considered part of the labor market area for New York City. The per capita income for Bridgeport is $16,306, which is $12,460 below the State of Connecticut per capita income of $28,766. About 16.2% of families and 18.4% of the population of Bridgeport live below the federal poverty level, including 13.2% of those age 65 and over.
Bridgeport Hospital places a significant emphasis on providing preventive health and wellness programs and various community services as a fundamental strategy to help improve the health of the community. Recent examples include:
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