Middlesex Health getting $2.17 million in state support

MIDDLETOWN — The state is dispensing an additional $40 million to Connecticut’s acute care hospitals to support their ongoing work responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration will be delivering this funding, which comes from the state’s Coronavirus Relief Fund, to nongovernmental, shortterm general hospitals that meet certain requirements based on applicable costs and expenses incurred as a result of the pandemic, he announced in a press release.

Middlesex Hospital, at 28 Crescent St. in Middletown, which is part of the Middlesex Health network, received $2.17 million in support, the release said.

It supplements the over $980 million direct federal funding received by the hospitals to date during the pandemic, according to the news release.

“This funding recognizes the front-line role Connecticut’s hospitals and their dedicated employees have played throughout this pandemic,” Lamont said in a prepared statement. “It is not an overstatement to say that this role has been heroic, and continues to be indispensable as we all work together to defeat the virus.

“Our hospitals have needed to adapt to new protocols and infection control measures, while also ceasing elective procedures during the crest of the first wave of COVID-19, which had the effect of increasing costs and decreasing

revenues, not to mention the physical, mental, and emotional toll this

pandemic has taken on their staff,” the governor said in the statement.

Hearst Connecticut Media file photo The main entrance to Middlesex Health is at 28 Crescent St. in Middletown.