The Danbury Hospital

What it reported doing in 2024

Danbury hospital is a 456-bed acute care hospital that provides comprehensive, high-quality, patient-centered care to the community. For more than 130 years, the hospital has delivered mission-driven services and remains committed to providing safe, convenient, and accessible care to meet the diverse healthcare needs of the populations it serves. Danbury hospital is part of nuvance health, which in may 2025 joined northwell health, creating an expanded integrated health system that enhances access to coordinated, high-quality care across New York's hudson valley and western Connecticut. As part of northwell health, New York's largest health system, danbury hospital patients benefit from expanded clinical coordination, enhanced specialty expertise, and access to system-wide best practices, while maintaining a strong focus on community-based care. Through its integrated system, danbury hospital offers a broad range of services, including bariatric surgery and medical weight loss, critical care, diabetes education, emergency services, heart and vascular care, imaging and radiology, infusion therapy, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedic care, physical rehabilitation, primary care, rheumatology, sleep medicine, urgent care, women's health, behavioral health, cancer care, dentistry, digestive health, endocrinology, genetic counseling, home health services, infectious disease care, nephrology, occupational medicine, patient blood management, pediatrics, podiatry, pulmonary care, geriatric care, surgical services, urology, and wound care and hyperbaric medicine. Danbury hospital is recognized for its commitment to delivering high-quality care, as evidenced by multiple national distinctions and accreditations in 2025. The hospital was named among healthgrades' america's 250 best hospitals, placing it in the top 5 percent of hospitals nationwide based on clinical outcomes. It also received several healthgrades specialty recognitions, including top 100 national rankings in cardiac care, critical care, gastrointestinal care, and spine surgery, as well as a surgical care excellence award. Additionally, u.s. News & world report rated the hospital as "high performing" in multiple procedures and conditions, including heart failure, hip replacement, spinal surgery, lung cancer surgery, and pacemaker implantation. Complementing these recognitions, the hospital maintains significant clinical accreditations and certifications from the joint commission, including advanced certification and the gold seal of distinction for excellence in palliative care; advanced certification and gold seal of distinction as a thrombectomy-capable stroke center; and certifications with the gold seal of distinction for excellence in spine, total hip replacement, and total knee replacement. The hospital is also recognized as a robotic center of excellence by the surgical review corporation. Collectively, these recognitions demonstrate the hospital's ongoing commitment to quality improvement, adherence to rigorous clinical standards, and delivery of safe, effective care. Danbury hospital conducts a community health needs assessment (chna) every three years to identify the health needs, barriers, and priorities of the communities it serves. The findings inform the development of the community health improvement plan (chip), which outlines strategies and measurable actions to address identified needs. Based on the most recent chna, danbury hospital focused its community benefit activities on two priority areas: preventing chronic disease and addressing behavioral health needs. In support of chronic disease prevention, danbury hospital implemented initiatives addressing nutrition and food insecurity. The hospital provided more than 10,000 discounted meals annually to seniors and patients undergoing cancer treatment and continued to expand its food as medicine (fam) program, launched in 2023. This program connects food-insecure patients with chronic conditions, such as u

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 93%; rating input score 93
• Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 1st percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Missing
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 65%; rating input score 65; 13th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 78.3%; rating input score 78; 26th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Fail
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 0.2%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0.5%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings