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St. Vincent’s seeks three more operating rooms, OHS presses for data on earlier notifications
Summary
St. Vincent’s Medical Center asked Connecticut’s Office of Health Strategy to approve three new operating rooms, arguing rising trauma volume, recruitment of specialist surgeons and high OR utilization justify expansion; OHS probed prior 2020/2023 notifications and requested updated block schedules and recruit lists within two weeks.
Hearing Officer Dan Chuka opened a March 18, 2025, contested-case hearing before the Office of Health Strategy on St. Vincent’s Medical Center’s certificate-of-need application to add three operating rooms at its Bridgeport main campus. The hospital says the work will cost $14,250,000 and is intended to create appropriately sized rooms to accommodate advanced imaging and robotic systems.
Attorney Joan Feldman of Shipman & Goodwin, representing St. Vincent’s Medical Center/Hartford HealthCare, said the hospital would need to close three small, “suboptimal” rooms if it does not receive approval for the three additional ORs. “Simply put, if the three additional ORs are not approved, the hospital have no choice, but to close 3 existing small, ill sized operating rooms,” Feldman said during opening remarks.
Dr. Shay Gregg, chair of surgery at St. Vincent’s, told OHS staff the hospital has experienced a “15 percent increase in trauma cases” year over year and has recruited 37 new surgeons since 2021. Gregg said those trends, together with lengthening case times for more complex procedures, have pushed…
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