Karen Essig

Bridgeport Hospital is a private, not-for-profit acute care hospital located in Connecticut’s most populous city, primarily serving patients from Fairfield and New Haven Counties. Burn patients are seen in The Connecticut Burn Center—the only burn center in Connecticut—from throughout the state and neighboring states. Bridgeport Hospital is a member of the Yale New Haven Health System with Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale New Haven Children's Hospital and Greenwich Hospital, and managed care network participant Westerly (R.I.) Hospital. Accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Bridgeport Hospital has 383 licensed beds plus 42 beds licensed under Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, more than 2,600 employees, nearly 600 active attending physicians representing more than 60 subspecialties, 235 medical/surgical residents and fellows in programs affiliated with Yale University School of Medicine, and more than 460 volunteers and 380 auxilians.