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Talks underway on creating big new Conn. children’s hospital

 

Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, based in Hartford, and Yale New Haven Hospital are discussing a pediatric- care partnership that could extend the Hartford-based hospital’s reach into populous Fairfield County and create one of the largest children’s hospitals in the U.S.

The two health centers said officials “have agreed to discuss a partnership to create a new Connecticut and regional system of pediatric care with national prominence and deep community engagement.”


Conn. justices back forced chemotherapy on teen

 

Video and text: In a very strange story,  the Connecticut  Supreme Court rules that a 17-year-old girl must continue to submit to chemotherapy for Hodgkins lymphoma at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center although she is trying to refuse treatment.

The case raises questions on how much a hospital should be a tool for involuntary treatment.

 


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