The hospital has a family medicine residency program and a radiologic technology school. In addition to its emergency department in Middletown, the health system operates two satellite medical centers in Westbrook, Connecticut, and Marlborough, Connecticut, with fully accredited, stand-alone emergency departments. Combined, the three locations serve the 4th highest emergency patient volume of all Connecticut hospitals. In 2022 the hospital had 11,902 discharges and 77,805 emergency department visits.[3]
History
In 1895 the Connecticut General Assembly issued a charter incorporating Middlesex Hospital. With a $20,000 grant from the state, and the gift of the Camp Homestead on Crescent Street, the hospital opened in the spring of 1904.
[4] The hospital's nursing school graduated nurses from 1910 until the Ona M. Wilcox School of Nursing closed in 1997.[5]
Services
Inpatient Care
The hospital is licensed for 297 beds, 33 bassinets and serves a total population of over 250,000 persons.
The Cancer Center offers radiation oncology, medical oncology and supportive services with diagnostic radiology including PET scan, CT scan and MRI close by. The cancer program is an ACoS-approved Comprehensive Community Cancer Center.[6]
Comprehensive Breast Center
Middlesex Hospital is accredited by the American College of Surgeons National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers as a Comprehensive Breast Center.[7] The Breast Center is located at 540 Saybrook Road.
Home Care / Hospice Program
The hospital provides Homecare, hospice and palliative care home visits. The hospice program is Medicare-certified and includes homecare as well as in-patient care within the hospital. It was established in 1985.
Pregnancy and Birth Center
The Pregnancy & Birth Center at Middlesex Hospital is designated as “Baby-Friendly” by Baby-Friendly USA.[8] The Baby-Friendly Hospital initiative recognizes hospitals that provide an optimal level of care and information for breastfeeding moms.
Centers of Excellence
The hospital has Joint Commission approved Centers of Excellence in stroke, joint replacement for hips and knees, and bariatrics. The Middlesex Hospital Center for Joint Replacement has earned The Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval® for hip and knee replacements.[9]
In 2024, Middlesex Hospital received an A grade for safety from the Leapfrog Group.[11]
Magnet Hospital
On June 1, 2001, Middlesex Hospital became Connecticut's first Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), an arm of the American Nurses Association.[12] The hospital has retained its designation since 2001.
Top 100 Hospitals
Middlesex Hospital has been designated four times as one of the Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals® [13]
The Hospital was recognized as part of The Joint Commission’s 2015 annual report “America’s Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety,”[15] for attaining and sustaining excellence in accountability for key quality measures for:
Middlesex Hospital was recognized by Healthgrades[16] for the following five clinical and hospital quality awards:
America's 100 Best Hospitals for Pulmonary Care Award 2015, 2016, 2017
America's 100 Best Hospitals for Stroke Care Award 2016, 2017
Critical Care Excellence Award 2017
Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence 2016
Outstanding Patient Experience Award 2014, 2016
Middlesex was the only hospital in Connecticut to receive the Patient Experience Award in 2014, and one of only two in 2016.
Middlesex Hospital received an award for Clinical Excellence in 2017 for rating in the top 5% of hospitals in the nation with the lowest risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates across at least 21 of 32 common conditions and procedures.[17]
References
^"OHCA Hospital Study"(PDF). Connecticut Department of Public Health. Retrieved 2017-01-23.
^The halls of ivy: The Middlesex Hospital and The Wilcox College of Nursing : one hundred years of caring, 1895-1995 : you can get here from there, by Mary B. Heath. Worcester, MA, Deerfield Press, 1995, p. 3. ASIN B0006QPJJA