Stamford Hospital is a community teaching hospital situated in Stamford, Connecticut. With 2,100 employees and 554 physicians, it serves as the regional center for medicine in Southwestern Connecticut in Fairfield County. The hospital is affiliated with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Its residency training programs are in internal medicine, family medicine, surgery, and obstetrics.

Specialty programs at Stamford Hospital include:

• A full service Heart and Vascular Institute (including
  state-of-the-art heart surgery)
• Cancer services (including the Bennett Cancer Center
  and CyberKnife^® Center)
• Women's Services
• Orthopedics
• Infectious Diseases
• Pulmonary Medicine
• Maternal Fetal Medicine
• Diabetes and Endocrine Center
• Children's Specialty Center
• Multiple Outpatient Centers including the Tully Health Center

Stamford Hospital is:

Fully accredited by the The Joint Commission;

A recipient of The Joint Commission's Ernest A. Codman award for excellence in the use of outcomes measurement to achieve improvements in the quality and safety of health care in the hospital Intensive Care Unit;

The only Hospital in Fairfield County to achieve the prestigious Magnet award of excellence for nursing;

A member of the Planetree Alliance, a group of hospitals nationwide focusing on patient-centered care; and

A 2007 recipient of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System (NYPHS) Quality Symposium Award in “Recognition of Commitment to Quality Innovation”. The award recognizes the achievements of the Environmental Services and Infectious Disease Departments in their joint effort over the last two years to combat the prevalence of hospital-acquired infections.