DPH finds serious violations of patient safety at CT hospital

Oversight of Saint Francis Hospital will continue for another six months after inspections uncovered “serious violations of patient safety regulations and protocols at the hospital” this past summer, according to the state Department of Public Health .

Brittany Schaefer, spokesperson for DPH, said Saint Francis entered into a consent order with DPH in September 2024 because of “the hospital’s failure to meet minimum staffing requirements, which are in place to protect the health and safety of the patients served by the hospital.”

More than 100 pages of inspections from DPH over the last year that were reviewed by The Hartford Courant highlight violations of health regulations including failing to follow physician orders that directed continuous monitoring of patients’ cardiac rhyt