Hartford Hospital Medical Staff Donates $15,000 to CCAR
Hartford, CT – In honor of Doctors’ Day, the Hartford Hospital Medical Staff donated $15,000 to benefit Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR), which supports recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction through advocacy, education, community-building, and service.
Recovery coaches through CCAR’s Emergency Department (ED) Program meet with patients admitted to the Hartford Hospital ED for opioid overdose or other drug or alcohol-related crisis. The coaches support patients, family members, and hospital personnel in connecting with recovery resources, such as outpatient detox services.
“CCAR has been an extraordinary partner in facilitating outpatient care for our patients that need specialized services for addiction and overdose treatment,” said Kenneth Robinson, MD, President of the Hartford Hospital Medical Staff and Chief Academic Officer at Hartford Hospital. “The recovery coaches, many of whom have lived experience, are exceptional at connecting with our community in a positive, compassionate way.”
“We are incredibly grateful to Hartford Hospital’s Medical Staff for this generous donation through their Doctors’ Day initiative,” said Stacy Charpentier, Executive Director of CCAR. “As we work tirelessly to secure funding for our recovery community centers, support like this means more than ever. It’s deeply meaningful to know that the medical staff at Hartford Hospital not only values recovery, but stands beside nonprofits like CCAR in our mission. Our collaboration in the emergency department—and now on the medical floors—shows what’s possible when healthcare and recovery support services work together. We’re proud of this partnership and look forward to continuing our shared commitment to ensuring people have access to the recovery support they need.”
Hartford Hospital’s active medical staff includes more than 2,000 physicians and dentists.
About Hartford Hospital:
Hartford Hospital, founded in 1854, is one of the largest teaching hospitals and tertiary care centers in New England. The hospital boasts 867 licensed beds, including its 114-bed mental health facility, the Institute of Living, which maintains an international reputation of excellence, a 59-bed, free-standing orthopedic hospital; and Jefferson House, a 104-bed long-term care facility. The hospital’s Emergency Department (ED) ranks among the 40 busiest EDs in the country. It has a nearly 200-year history of training physicians on the latest techniques and technology.
Hartford Hospital is the flagship member of Hartford HealthCare, Connecticut’s most comprehensive healthcare network. A system-wide institute model offers a unified high standard of care in crucial specialties at hospital and ambulatory sites across the state, offering unparalleled expertise at the most affordable cost. The institutes include Ayer Neuroscience, Behavioral Health, Cancer, Digestive Health, Heart & Vascular, Orthopedics, and Tallwood Urology & Kidney.
The hospital’s active medical staff includes more than 2,000 physicians and dentists. In 2023, the hospital had over 46,000 discharges and more than 100,000 Emergency Department visits. Hartford Hospital physicians performed over 38,000 surgeries in 48 operating rooms and delivered 3,964 babies that year.
Hartford Hospital was ranked best in the nation in 2023 for cardiac surgery by the Society for Thoracic Surgeons; achieved the highest kidney graft survival rates in the nation; and received an “A” grade, as well as Top Teaching Hospital recognition, from The Leapfrog Group, the nation’s leading independent watchdog for healthcare safety – all in addition to accolades from U.S. News & World Report, Healthgrades, CMS, The Joint Commission, Newsweek, and many more.
About Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery:
Along with organizing the recovery community (people in recovery, family members, friends and allies) to 1) put a face on recovery and 2) provide recovery support services, we also promote recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction through advocacy, education and service. CCAR strives to end discrimination surrounding addiction and recovery, open new doors and remove barriers to recovery, maintain and sustain recovery regardless of the pathway, all the while ensuring that all people in recovery, and people seeking recovery, are treated with dignity and respect.
CCAR meets people where they are. We don’t push any one form of recovery on anyone. Over the years CCAR has developed some foundational principles on which we base our work. They are:
Recovery First.
You are in recovery if you say you are.
There are many pathways of recovery.
Focus on the recovery potential, not the pathology.
Err on the side of the recoveree.
Err on the side of being generous.
Many times people are left to navigate the system on their own. By the time they get to us, they are frustrated, crying, discouraged. We talk with them. We meet them where they are. We offer the hope of a new way of living. We help them.