Timely Request for Info and Advocacy to Save Sharon Hospital Maternity Ward and Services

 A Letter to Support the Maternity Ward at Sharon Hospital of CT (copied and shared without any edits)

Earlier this year, the corporate owner of Sharon Hospital, Nuvance Health, applied to Connecticut’s healthcare and hospital regulator, the Office of Health Strategy (OHS), to close the maternity unit at Sharon Hospital.

The maternity unit remains open at this time. We have been working alongside the non-profit community group, Save Sharon Hospital, to prevent this closure, and we are asking for your assistance in helping us to do everything we can to keep maternity open.

The decision on whether Nuvance will be permitted to close the maternity unit will depend on the outcome of the public hearing that has been rescheduled for next Tuesday, December 6 at 9:30am via Zoom, with the public testimony portion scheduled to start at 3pm. We are therefore asking that each of you please consider providing testimony to OHS on why keeping maternity open at Sharon Hospital is important to you. 

• To provide written testimony: Email ohs@ct.gov by Monday, December 5 and reference Docket #22-32511-CON.

• To provide oral testimony: Sign up on December 6 starting at 2pm via Zoom, with public commentary starting at 3pm, provided the technical portion (which begins at 9:30am) has ended.

• Here is the Zoom login information: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82873390892?pwd=Q2lqYVNpdmxnN1FHY1VvbU5Yb0dNQT09

Meeting ID: 828 7339 0892

Passcode: 736640

Dial in: 1 646 876 9923

• Save Sharon Hospital is also hosting a live streaming session of the public hearing at the Sharon Town Hall on Dec 6 to watch the hearing together, and to allow those who wish to testify the opportunity to testify alongside others within our community. We hope that you will join us! To streamline the signup process, please consider signing up to testify from your personal Zoom account prior to joining us to testify.

We also invite you to attend our last Community Roundtable this Thursday, Dec 1 at 5pm at Troutbeck, located at 515 Leedsville Rd, Amenia, NY. Learn from the physician perspective what has been happening at Sharon Hospital. No reservations needed. 

Thank you in advance for your time and support. If you have any questions, please email savesharonhospital@gmail.com.