Saint Mary's Hospital (abbreviated STMH) is a

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-affiliated urban hospital located at 56 Franklin Street,

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, Connecticut. Operated by Trinity Health, it was founded in 1907 by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chambéry and is designated as a Level II trauma center. Saint Mary's has been a teaching hospital for the

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for over 40 years.

History

In 2011, Waterbury Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital said they planned on merging."Waterbury, St. Mary's hospitals plan to merge."
(''Hartford Business'') (August 23, 2011) Retrieved March 3, 2019. The merger between St. Mary's Hospital and Waterbury Hospital was called off in 2012.
(''Becker's Hospital Review'') (October 15, 2012) Retrieved March 3, 2019. In July 2014

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announced that the hospital would be acquired by a Tenet subsidiary, with the hospital's religious directives and uncompensated care policies remaining intact. Tenet was chosen by the hospital after a four-year selection process. The Tenet deal unraveled in 2015 when Tenet expressed concern with the conditions on the sale set by the

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."Tenet's Plan To Buy Connecticut Hospitals Is Dead."
(''

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'') (February 5, 2015) Retrieved March 3, 2019. In September 2015, Saint Mary's Hospital was acquired by

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-based Trinity Health, who had recently acquired

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in Hartford. In 2018, Trinity Health opened a center for

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treatment and research at the hospital."Trinity Health opens $3M center for MS care, research at St. Mary's Hospital."
(''Hartford Business'') (May 9, 2018) Retrieved March 3, 2019.

Hospital rating data

The HealthGrades website contains quality data for St. Mary's Hospital as of 2016. For this rating section three different types of data from HealthGrades, 9 or 10 are the two highest possible ratings. Percentage of patients rating this hospital as a 9 or 10 - 67%."HealthGrades website"
(Health Grades) (2016).

References

External links

St. Mary's Hospital (Waterbury) website
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