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CMS certification 073300

Connecticut Childrens Medical Center

282 Washington Street, Hartford, CT 06106

Childrens Emergency services

This page brings together federal quality data for this hospital: its CMS star rating, patient survey results, emergency department times, and death, complication, infection and readmission rates, each compared with the national rate. Everything here comes from CMS and NPPES, the federal sources themselves - not from us.

CMS overall rating Not rated Data are shown only for hospitals that participate in the Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) and Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR) programs.
Would definitely recommend No survey results published
Patient survey rating Not rated HCAHPS patient survey
Compared with the nation Too few cases for CMS to compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Data are shown only for hospitals that participate in the Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) and Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR) programs.

Not reported for this hospital

CMS had too few cases here to publish results for deaths, complications, infections caught in the hospital, readmissions and return visits. That is common at small, rural and specialty hospitals, and says nothing either way about quality.

Clinicians registered at this address

523 clinicians give this hospital's street address as their practice location in NPPES, the federal provider registry, plus 103 residents and trainees. The same address can take in offices and clinics in the building, and a listing does not prove admitting privileges or current employment.

Specialty Clinicians
Pediatrics 135
Physician Assistant 45
Clinical 26
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine 23
Pediatric Emergency Medicine 22
Family 21
Pediatric Cardiology 16
Pediatric Gastroenterology 15
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology 15
Neonatal, Critical Care 12
Audiologist 11
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 11

First 12 alphabetically

Money from drug and device companies

Drug and device makers have to report what they pay teaching hospitals to CMS's Open Payments program. At many teaching hospitals most of it is research funding, or royalties for inventions the hospital licensed to a company. A payment on its own does not show a conflict of interest.

2025 total $698,103 general $920 · research $697,183
All years, 2019–2025 $4.8M 1,181 reported payments
Studies funded, 2025 31 20 companies paid in total
  • 2019 $836,221
  • 2020 $723,744
  • 2021 $838,414
  • 2022 $762,533
  • 2023 $481,117
  • 2024 $442,728
  • 2025 $698,103

General payments Research payments

What the 2025 general payments were for

Type of payment Amount Payments
Debt forgiveness $620 2
Charitable contributions $300 12

Largest paying companies, 2025

Company Amount Payments
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. $225,413 43
Janssen Research & Development, LLC $70,334 7
Pfizer INC. $54,095 10
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $43,992 13
Day One Biopharmaceuticals $42,080 4
Abbvie INC. $40,391 6
Ardelyx, Inc. $39,500 9
Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. $38,082 11

Largest research studies funded here, 2025

Study Amount
UX143-CL301 Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. $225,413
A Multicenter, Prospective, Long-term, Observational Registry of Pediatric Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease (DEVELOP) Janssen Research & Development, LLC $53,084
LOGGIC/FIREFLY-2: A Phase 3, Randomized, International Multicenter Trial of DAY101 Monotherapy Versus Standard of Care Chemotherapy in Patients With … Day One Biopharmaceuticals · NCT05566795 $42,080
A Phase 3, Randomized, Open-label, Parallel-arm, Active-controlled, Multicenter Study to Evaluate Safety and Efficacy of ALXN1850 Versus Asfotase Alf… Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $40,053
LOW INTERVENTIONAL COHORT STUDY OF MYOCARDITISPERICARDITIS ASSOCIATED WITH COMIRNATY IN PERSONS LESS THAN 21 YEARS OF AGE PFIZER INC. $34,400
BMN 111-903 BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. $32,228
YKP3089C040 SK Life Science, Inc. · NCT05067634 $31,892
SRP-9001-401 Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. $26,250

Amounts are as the paying companies reported them to CMS; Open Payments data retrieved 13 Sep 2026. Full record on CMS Open Payments.

How to read this page

  • Everything here is published by CMS on Care Compare. We arrange it and explain it; the star ratings and the better / worse verdicts are CMS's, not ours.
  • “No different” is the most common result on most measures at most hospitals. CMS only calls a result better or worse when the difference from the national rate is statistically clear.
  • Death, complication and readmission rates are adjusted by CMS for how sick patients were, so hospitals that treat sicker patients can be compared fairly.
  • Infection results are ratios: 1.0 means as many infections as CMS predicted for a hospital like this one, below 1.0 is fewer.
  • These are hospital-wide results. They do not rate an individual doctor, nurse or department, and they are not medical advice.

CMS Care Compare data retrieved 4 Oct 2026, refreshed weekly. Where this data comes from and how we handle it · Report an error

Common questions about Connecticut Childrens Medical Center

Does Connecticut Childrens Medical Center have an emergency room?

Yes. CMS lists emergency services at Connecticut Childrens Medical Center.

Does Connecticut Childrens Medical Center receive money from drug and device companies?

Drug and device makers reported $698,103 in payments to Connecticut Childrens Medical Center for 2025, most of it research funding, under the federal Open Payments program. A payment on its own does not show a conflict of interest.