Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center
{{short description|Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, United States}}
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| org/group = Trinity Health of New England
| image = St. Francis Hospital, 114 Woodland Street in Hartford, Connecticut, 2009-09-02.jpg
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| region = Hartford
| state = Connecticut
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| address = 114 Woodland Street
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| emergency = Level 1 Trauma Center
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| affiliation = Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
University of Connecticut
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| beds = 617
| founded = 1897
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| website = {{URL|https://www.trinityhealthofne.org/location/saint-francis-hospital}}
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Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center is a 617-bed acute care hospital located on Woodland Street in Hartford, Connecticut. The hospital was established in 1897 by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chambéry.{{cite web|url=http://www.saintfranciscare.com/Saint_Francis_at_a_Glance/Saint_Francis_at_a_Glance.aspx|title=Saint Francis at a Glance|publisher=Saint Francis Care|access-date=2008-07-05|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090511091731/http://www.saintfranciscare.com/Saint_Francis_at_a_Glance/Saint_Francis_at_a_Glance.aspx|archive-date=2009-05-11|df=}} With 617 beds and 65 bassinets, it is the largest Catholic hospital in New England.{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807E5D71430F931A15752C1A96E958260|title= The View From/St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford; How Art, and an Artist, Join in the Healing Process|last=Ryan|first=Bill|date=22 November 1998|work=The New York Times|accessdate=2008-07-05}}
History
Saint Francis has been affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital since 1990. This was the first recorded instance of collaboration between a Catholic hospital and a Jewish hospital in the United States. The two institutions formalized the corporate merger in 1995. In addition, the hospital maintains affiliations with Saint Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, which is independently licensed. Saint Francis, a regional referral center, has major clinical concentrations in cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, women's services and rehabilitation.
In 2008, ground was broken on a ten-story addition, the John T. O'Connell Tower. Opened in March 2011, this addition included 19 replacement operating rooms, 72 replacement medical/surgical patient beds, and a Helipad on the roof of the building. It includes six orthopedic operating rooms and sixty-three replacement inpatient orthopedic beds for the Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute. Also featuring an enlarged emergency department, expanding the treatment area from forty-nine to sixty-eight treatment bays and increasing space for ambulances from six to ten parking spots.{{cite web |url=http://www.stfranciscare.org/body.aspx?id=7563 |title=SAINT FRANCIS BREAKS GROUND FOR JOHN T. O'CONNELL TOWER - 10-Story Facility To Host New ED, Surgery, Private Patient Rooms {{pipe}} Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT |publisher=Stfranciscare.org |date= |access-date=2013-11-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202225942/http://www.stfranciscare.org/body.aspx?id=7563 |archive-date=2013-12-02 |df= }}
In January 2012, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center received its second PureCell System's Model 400 phosphoric acid fuel cell, which will provide power to the Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital campus.{{cite web|author=|url=http://www5.cbia.com/green/article/utc-power-lands-at-saint-francis-hospital-and-medical-centers-mount-sinai-campus/ |title=UTC Power Lands at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center's Mount Sinai Campus — CBIA's Green Business Center |publisher=.cbia.com |date=2012-01-27 |accessdate=2013-11-22}} The 400 kW PureCell System will provide nearly half of the building's electrical needs as well as providing thermal energy; the installation prevents the release of more than 383 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually{{Cite web|url=http://buildingctgreen.com/AuggieVGreenBlog/utc-power-delivers-fuel-cell-at-saint-francis-hospitals-mount-sinai-campus/|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120707022123/http://buildingctgreen.com/AuggieVGreenBlog/utc-power-delivers-fuel-cell-at-saint-francis-hospitals-mount-sinai-campus/|archive-date=2012-07-07|url-status=dead|title=BuildingCTGreen {{pipe}} Blog}} – the equivalent of planting more than 88 acres of trees, the hospital claims.{{cite web|url=http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/news-events/news-archive/2012/february/saint-francis-hospital-and-medical-centre-installs-second-utc-fuel-cell |title=Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Centre Installs Second UTC Fuel Cell |publisher=Fuelcelltoday.com |date= |accessdate=2013-11-22}}
Trinity Health acquired St. Francis Care in 2014. Trinity merged St. Francis Care with Sisters of Providence Health System (parent of Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts) to form Trinity Health of New England in 2015.{{Cite web| author= Anne-Gerard Flynn {{!}} Special to The Republican| title = CEO sees Trinity Health-New England 'game changer'| work = masslive| accessdate = 2021-10-16| date = 2015-11-12| url = https://www.masslive.com/news/2015/11/ceo_calls_trinity_health-new_england_game_changer_for_area_access_to_care.html}}
In 2018, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center was verified by the American College of Surgeons as a Level I Trauma Center, the highest-level status for trauma care.{{Cite web|url=https://www.facs.org/search/trauma-centers?state=CT&country=United+States|title=Trauma Centers|website=American College of Surgeons}}
File:St. Francis Hospital, 95 Woodland Street in Hartford, Connecticut, 2009-09-02.jpg|St. Francis Hospital, 95 Woodland Street
File:St. Francis Hospital, 1000 Asylum Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut 2, 2009-09-02.jpg|St. Francis Hospital, 1000 Asylum Avenue
File:PostcardHartfordCTStFrancisHospital1915.jpg|The hospital shown in a postcard from about 1915
References
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