Electric A New UConn Hospital?: Hard Questions in Need of Answers

Arthur W. Wright

The Connecticut Economy, 2009, issue Summer

Abstract: Governor Jodi Rell put the kibosh on the proposed new “University hospital”, on fiscal austerity grounds, before the public debate had barely started. Nonetheless, the joint proposal by the UConn Health Center and Hartford Hospital raised some hard questions that elected officials will have to grapple with in coming years. Apparently, we do need to do something about the Health Center’s John Dempsey hospital. But should that “something” entail building a new hospital? And should we “do something” in Farmington rather than in Hartford? Definitive answers ought to turn on the relative costs and benefits of different strategies.

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Date: 2009
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