CHA serves as a credible source of information on a broad array of healthcare topics. Through its weekly Update newsletter, Annual Report, reports on hospitals' contributions to communities' health and economic well-being, workforce shortages, and other publications, CHA offers information to its members, policy makers and legislators, the media, and the public at-large.

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• Update newsletter. Click here for archived newsletters.

• CHA Annual Report. Click here for archived reports.

• Facts About Connecticut Hospitals

• Ensuring the Highest Standards of Patient Safety and Quality Care

• Hospital 101

• 2009 Keeping Connecticut Healthy: Connecticut Hospitals Strengthening Community Health - CHA document highlights the community benefit role of our not-for-profit hospitals. It provides an overview of the financial contributions hospitals make as part of their community benefits and includes a story about a program being conducted at every CHA acute care hospital member.

• 2008 Connecticut Hospitals: Major Contributors to the Financial Health of Communities - CHA report that examines the major contributions Connecticut Hospitals make to the financial health of communities.

• Faces of Medicaid in Connecticut - A 2007 CHA report that focuses on the implications of Medicaid underfunding to hospitals and the patients and communities they serve.

• Averting Crisis: Ensuring Healthcare for Future Generations in Connecticut - A 2007 CHA report focuses on the state's healthcare workforce shortage, recommends a six-point plan to address the shortage before it becomes a crisis, and highlights many of the workforce development initiatives being conducted by CHA member hospitals.

If you have questions regarding any of these publications, please contact Leslie Gianelli.