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UConn Health Gifting Safe Sleep to its Newborns
Each baby born at UConn John Dempsey Hospital is being gifted safe sleep with a UConn Health embroidered sleep sack.
UConn Health Goes Red
National Wear Red Day was marked on February 2, 2024, during American Heart Month.
Keep Your Daily Diet and Kitchen Heart Healthy!
February is American Heart Month. The experts at UConn Health want to help you learn how to eat and cook heart healthy all year round.
Leadership: We Are All Leaders at UConn Health
Anne Horbatuck, RN, Chief Operating Officer for the UConn Medical Group at UConn Health, is highlighted as an exemplar leader. We’ve asked her to share her insight and experiences gathered from the last four decades with us here at UConn Health, the state’s only public academic health system.
UConn Health Recruits Leader of Thoracic Surgery
Dr. Dustin Walters has been recruited to the Department of Surgery at UConn Health to launch a new program for thoracic surgical care and to grow it to world-class program heights.
Excellence Awarded at UConn John Dempsey Hospital
UConn John Dempsey Hospital (JDH) has awarded its 2023 Annual Awards of Excellence including a new first Annual Community Outreach Award.
MLK Day of Service: UConn Health Students Improving Health Outcomes for Connecticut Citizens
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2024 UConn medical and dental students gathered to present posters about their project efforts around the state to improve health outcomes for Connecticut residents.
UConn Health Begins Blood and Marrow Transplants
Dr. Kapil S. Meleveedu was recently recruited and has launched the new Blood and Marrow Transplant Program establishing a state-of-the-art Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at UConn John Dempsey Hospital.
UConn John Dempsey Hospital Named to Newsweek’s New America’s Best-In-State Hospitals List
UConn’s award-winning teaching hospital is the only hospital in the Greater Hartford area to make Newsweek’s new best-in-state hospital ranking.
Professor Cato T. Laurencin of UConn receives the 2024 John P. McGovern Compleat Physician Award
The award recognizes physicians who have enriched the field of medicine with excellence and humaneness.