Windham Hospital

Proud to support our community!

Sarah Bouchard, Erin Bane and Surheil Luciano from the Windham Hospital Women's Health Center attended the Third Thursday event in Willimantic last week.

The team (and some of their kids) provided information about the services we offer and even had a visit from Congressman Joe Courtney!

Windham Hospital is excited to welcome its newest K9 team, James and Mya.

James Credit-Roderick, who has a background with the Department of Corrections, has always been passionate about becoming a K9 handler. For him, partnering with Mya, a skilled firearm detection dog, is a dream come true.

The duo, who have been working together for two months, is already impacting the hospital community.

Welcome to the team James and Mya!

Hundreds of swimmers from across Hartford HealthCare and the community taking the plunge during a day filled with hope and inspiration in the fight against cancer

The 37th Annual Swim Across the Sound is officially underway!
The event is state-wide for the second year, bringing swimmers from every corner of Connecticut and beyond, raising money for the Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute and the hospital of choice.

A special thank you to all the swimmers!

Providing the highest quality and safest care possible.

The Windham Hospital Endoscopy Unit recently received their official plaque commemorating their three-year recognition for quality and safety from the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE).

Congratulations to the team!

From all of us at Windham Hospital, wishing you a happy and safe Fourth of July!

Something special is growing at Windham Hospital!

Installation has begun on a new 3,000 square foot hydroponic vegetable garden at Windham Hospital. The garden, located in the lower lot near the hospital’s Valley Street entrance, will be used to grow produce to be distributed to members of the local community in need.

The hydroponic system was built by Levo International, a Hartford-based company that provided the supplies and helped set up the system, with food-safe PVC pipes. The water comes from a basin and is pumped through the pipes, with added nutrients depending on the plants, which assists in faster growth.

Special thanks to all of our colleagues who volunteered to help put the garden together. We can’t wait to see the fruits (and vegetables) of their labor!

No parking spaces up front when you need care at Windham Hospital? No problem!

The hospital’s new golf cart shuttle will deliver you quickly and safely to the front entrance.

Just another way we try and provide our patients with the best experience possible!

In honor of Juneteenth, Windham Hospital hosted an informative table aiming to educate colleagues and the community about the holiday, its historical significance, and its relevance to Hartford HealthCare’s mission and values.

Windham Hospital is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all individuals feel valued and respected.

At the Juneteenth table, Jean Paul Valenzuela from the Community Health team, shared valuable information about the East Region’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Council, which plays a pivotal role in promoting a culture of diversity and inclusion within the hospital.

Windham Hospital recently welcomed a group of interns who are joining us this summer to explore careers in healthcare.

The interns are filling roles throughout the hospital ranging from radiology, hospital administration, pharmacy, surgical services, marketing, patient transportation and much more.

We are excited to have this amazing group of individuals who represent the future of healthcare!

National Hospital Week is a time to recognize all our healthcare heroes for the extraordinary work you do in our hospitals each day to ensure our patients receive the best care possible.

This year, we celebrated with events throughout the week, including ice cream socials, massages, cupcakes and a BBQ!

We are grateful for everything our colleagues do this week and every day for the patients and communities we serve.

Thank you!

They move us with their compassionate care, impress us with their expertise and inspire us with their professionalism.

They are the nurses of Windham Hospital.

We salute each and every one, and we’re proud to honor those chosen by their peers as 2024 winners of the Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing.

Darlene Saucier’s, APRN, WOCN patients and their families consistently say how much they appreciate her expertise and kind, compassionate way. She helped grow and expand Windham’s Wound Care Clinic into a thriving program. Patients say they refer friends and family to the clinic because of the quality care Darlene provides.

Thank you to all nurses – this week and always!

Windham Hospital held a special flag raising ceremony this morning to celebrate National Nurses Week.

Windham nurse and recipient of the 2024 Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing Darlene Saucier, APRN, WOCN, had the honor of raising the nursing flag up the flagpole as her colleagues looked on.

Thank you to all of our amazing nurses for all that you do for the communities we serve!

Colleagues from Hartford HealthCare were at Eastern Connecticut State University on Monday to help kick off National Nurses Week and celebrate the university's new Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program.

The program is a partnership between ECSU, Hartford HealthCare’s Center for Simulation and Education and Windham Hospital designed to prepare more nurses to work in eastern Connecticut.

They move us with their compassionate care, impress us with their expertise and inspire us with their professionalism.

They are the nurses of Windham Hospital.

We salute each and every one, and we’re proud to honor those chosen by their peers as 2024 winners of the Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing.

Heather Sanchez, RN is a strong patient advocate. One patient noted: “Heather embodies the best qualities of our healthcare system - compassion, positivity and unselfishness. Heather made a scary situation calming.”

Thank you to all nurses – this week and always!

Windham Hospital earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade again from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit watchdog. It is the only hospital ratings program focused exclusively on preventable medical errors, infections and injuries.

Congratulations to our exceptional colleagues who make this recognition possible!

Celebrating Earth Day!

Team members from Windham Hospital (and even some of their kids) braved the rainy weather on Saturday to participate in an Earth Day cleanup event in downtown Willimantic hosted by Eastern Connecticut State University and RiseUP for Art.

Windham Hospital is proud to recognize our amazing physicians on National Doctors' Day. Thank you for all you do for the patients and communities we serve!

The team at Windham Hospital dressed in blue today in recognition of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.

Each day, our experts are committed to improving the health and healing of our patients and communities.

Providing safe and innovative care when it is needed most.

Windham Hospital paramedics are now equipped with fresh blood on board their ambulances allowing them to perform blood transfusions after trauma events before the patient gets to the hospital.

The blood is transported in specialized coolers to help keep it fresh and ready for use and is administered through a specialized device that warms the blood from 39 degrees to 100.4 degree when it reaches the patient.

For the Windham paramedics, who are one of the only EMS teams in eastern Connecticut to provide this service, the addition of the blood is a game changer when it comes to on the ground, lifesaving care.

“We get a lot of calls to patients suffering traumatic injuries and losing blood fast and especially in rural areas where the trip to the hospital is longer, they now have a much better chance of surviving,” said Paul Pedchenko, Manager of Windham’s EMS Services, who helped bring the program to Windham.

Spreading the love!

Windham Hospital administration team member Pierrette Proctor and 14 of her family and friends gathered over the weekend to make Valentine’s Day cards for healthcare workers.

The group, which began the tradition three years ago as a way to support healthcare workers and patients during the pandemic, made a total of 185 cards to be handed out on Valentine's Day.

Windham Hospital Goes Red!

The hospital was proud to host the "Go Red for Women – Ladies Night Out" event in recognition of National Heart Health Month.

Colleagues from throughout the system were on hand to provide screenings and heart health information to guests while local vendors provided heart healthy food and drinks.

The event also included talks from Dr. Stephanie Saucier and Dr. Katherine Decena from the Hartford HealthCare Heart & Vascular Institute and a musical performance from Katie Perkins, who at the age of 16 needed open-heart surgery to repair a rare heart condition.

Women Physicians Day is on Saturday, February 3rd! 👩🏻‍⚕️
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Women physicians are vital to the dynamic of today’s healthcare arena.
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Reflecting on the day, Dr. Ashley Ornoff, Pathologist at Windham Hospital says “I have an amazing group of people that I work with in the laboratory. I also feel that the work I do is important and intellectually stimulating.”
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The Mattel Children’s Foundation, a charitable arm of the toy manufacturing company Mattel Inc., helped spread the holiday cheer by donating more than 700 toys to Windham Hospital.

The emergency department will hand out the toys — which include storybooks, stuffed animals, toy tractors and cars, building blocks and more — to all of the children who come through our doors throughout the year.

Thank you, Mattel, for this wonderful donation!

Giving back to the communities we serve!

Team members from the Windham Hospital Radiology department visited Covenant Soup Kitchen in Willimantic to present a donation of $1,000 that they raised during National Radiologic Technology Week in November.