Bridgeport Hospital: Yale New Haven Health

Why Choose Bridgeport Hospital?

Located on the Connecticut shore, Bridgeport Hospital is a 425-bed, private, not-for-profit hospital and proud member of Yale New Haven Health System. As the largest hospital in prestigious Fairfield County, we provide service for more than 400,000 patient visits each year with a diverse range of specialty services in a wide range of practice settings. These include:

The Heart Institute at Bridgeport Hospital, named one of Solucient's “100 Top Hospitals for Cardiovascular Care"
The Norma F. Pfriem Cancer and Breast Care Centers
The first and only nationally verified Burn Center in the state of Connecticut
A busy and acclaimed regional Trauma Center
A 20-bassinet Level III Newborn Intensive Care Unit
The renowned Ahlbin Centers for Rehabilitation Medicine
And dozens of other renowned specialty units.

We are also an employer dedicated to building careers for life. Here you will find opportunities for lifelong growth, learning and advancement — careers designed to challenge you as a professional, inspire you as an individual and empower you to build the kind of future you deserve.

Our Culture and History

Bridgeport Hospital offers a unique blend of community hospital character with the technologies, services and opportunities of a major urban medical center. Here you’ll find an environment where people know one another by name, and where our commitment to treating people with respect for their diversity, support for their goals as a professional and understanding for their needs as an individual has helped us to maintain high retention rates.

People take immense pride in the work they do here, and we work hard to provide every member of the Bridgeport Hospital team with a generous salary and benefits package – including tuition reimbursement plans and strong work/life balance programs – and the kind of growth opportunities that transform a job into a true career for life.

For more than 125 years, Bridgeport Hospital has been synonymous with extraordinary care. The Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing – founded in 1884 – is the longest continuously operating school of nursing in Connecticut, and many members of our current nursing team are graduates who matriculated to successful careers here. Over the years, we’ve been the site of a long list of historic healthcare firsts — and today, we’re proud to be one of the premier destinations for healthcare professionals in New England.

Living in the Bridgeport Area

Bridgeport, Connecticut is a dynamic and diverse city of 140,000 located on Long Island Sound. A longtime center for industry and manufacturing, the city is today experiencing an economic and cultural renaissance. Strategically located between New York and Boston, Bridgeport offers easy access to the history and scenery of both New England and Long Island.

Bridgeport is the largest city in prestigious Fairfield County, which also includes such communities as Trumbull, Fairfield and Stratford. The area is an easy commute from much of southern and central Connecticut by car, train or bus.

We invite you to visit us in person to learn more about Bridgeport Hospital and the communities we serve.

Bridgeport Hospital At A Glance

Number of Beds:	425 beds
Annual Outpatient Visits:	218,000
Annual Emergency Visits:	67,000
Annual Admissions:	20,000
Annual Births:	2,600
Active Medical Staff:	550
Surgical/Medical Residents:	220
Active Registered Nurse Staff:	580
Annual Operating Room Procedures:	4,800 (Inpatient) 7,600 (Outpatient)
Annual Laboratory Procedures:	2,000,000

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