• Left to right: Brian Porter, Norwalk Hospital Foundation’s director of corporate partnerships, receives grant check presented by First County Bank’s Steven Ferguson, assistant vice president, business development officer.

    Norwalk Hospital Foundation Receives Grant for Healthier Norwalk Kids

    NORWALK, Connecticut – August 18, 2017 – The Norwalk Hospital Foundation has received a $2,500 grant from the First County Bank Foundation to support Healthier Norwalk Kids, formerly known as Project L.E.A.N., an innovative, school-based program that teaches children the importance of...

  • Baked with Love Summer Youth Volunteers Melissa Talamo and Natasha Hoffner

    Summer Youth Volunteer Program Creates Pathway for High School and College Students

    DANBURY, Connecticut – August 7, 2017 - Teenagers and young adults thinking about going into careers in healthcare have had an excellent opportunity this summer to test out the waters within Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN). At Danbury, New Milford and Norwalk Hospitals, the Summer Youth...

  • McGraw Family Learning Center at Norwalk Hospital

    McGraw Family Pledges $3 Million for New Learning Center

    NORWALK, Connecticut – July 17, 2017 – The McGraw family, founders of global multimedia publishing company McGraw-Hill, is continuing its legacy of investing in community health by pledging up to $3 million in a challenge gift to establish the new McGraw Family Center for Advanced Learning at...

  • Danbury Hospital and Norwalk Hospital Names 2017 Most Wired

    Danbury and Norwalk Hospitals Named 2017 Most Wired®

    Fairfield County, Connecticut - July 12, 2017 – Health & Hospitals Networks Magazine (H&HN), the leading publication for health systems nationally, has announced both hospitals within the Western Connecticut Health Network – Danbury Hospital and Norwalk Hospital – have been named...

  • Richard Freeman, MD, Appointed New Chief Clinical Officer for Western Connecticut Health Network

    Dr Richard Freeman New Chief Clinical Officer for WCHN

    DANBURY, Connecticut – June 19, 2017- Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) President and CEO John M. Murphy, MD, has announced the appointment of Richard Freeman, MD, ScD, MPH, FACP, to the newly created and expanded role of Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) for WCHN. In his new role, Dr. Freeman...