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For more information about the Connecticut Center for Patient Safety, and about how to join, please contact Jean Rexford, the executive director.

Jean Rexford
Executive Director
Connecticut Center for Patient Safety
PO Box 231335
Hartford, CT 06123-1335

800-251-7444
jeanrexford@ctcps.org

Tell Us Your Story

Have you had an experience you would like to share with us? The strength of the CT Center for Patient Safety is the reality of what happened to you or a loved one. By adding your voice to ours, we grow stronger.

Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability, with respect to either your own experience or the experience of your loved one. Thanks for taking the time to do this.

1. What year did this happen?
2. Was it in a: Doctor’s office? A hospital? Other?
3. Describe your experience in your own words:
4. Name of hospital or doctor or facility:
5. Have you experienced a medication error? Yes No
6. Were you misdiagnosed? Yes No
7. If you contracted an infection while hospitalized
What area of the hospital? Was it following surgery? Yes No How many days did the infection add to the hospital stay? Did you find out about the infection after you left the hospital? Yes No What was the name of the infection? Do you know where the infection started? Catheter? Surgical site?

Please provide the following basic contact information so that we can call you to find out more about your experience. Your personal story will help us move this issue forward!

First Name:
Last Name:
Email:
Street:
City/State/Zip:
Phone:

Members’ Stories

Medical error can have devastating effects. Here, in their own words, Connecticut families tell the stories of how medical error changed their lives forever.

David Parian
Unfortunately when I had a tooth extracted, I was not given an antibiotic and got an infection. My wife kept calling my doctor who said it was just the flu. Days passed and I kept getting sicker and sicker and I kept being told I had the flu ... more

To Our Members

March 2008
Within the next two years, we can anticipate changes in the delivery of health care in our state. Several health authorities have been established by the Governor, the Speaker of the House, Jim Amman and the President of the Senate, Don Williams. These newly constituted authorities are to propose recommendations that would lead CT to universal health coverage.. ... more