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38 Doing Business in Connecticut | 2016 XX Doing Business in Connecticut | 2016 SPONSORED REPORT Growing Healthier ECHN is Growing Best-in-Class Care East of the River Currently, ECHN has 12 arrangements with industry leading organizations, providing services and support in such areas as ambulatory care, lab and imaging, behavioral health, rehabilitation and occupational health. Teaming Up On Eating Disorders Addressing the health of the community requires more than focusing on merely the most prominent or most publicized health concerns. So, while ECHN has built partnerships and facilities to address cancer, women's health, senior care and much more, it must also focus on under-addressed health issues. Most recently, ECHN has teamed up with one of the region's most respected and experienced providers of behavioral health services to address an often underserved population. A partnership between ECHN and Walden Behavioral Care, headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, Growth Through Partnerships The answer to expanding health services isn't always owning those services. ECHN believes it can often deliver specifi c healthcare services in a more cost-effi cient manner by creating strategic partnerships and joint ventures. Through the years, ECHN has grown its cooperative network of care services by identifying professionals and organizations that share the same goal – delivering high quality care within the community. "If there is a best-in-class provider out there that's a good fi t with our organization, partnering helps us offer a new service more quickly," says Dennis McConville, Senior Vice President, ECHN. "Ultimately, it offers the patient the best outcomes while saving the system and the patient money." A community is a living, breathing thing. It's never static. It grows and changes over time. So a health care network built to protect, serve and improve the community's well-being must likewise shift its shape and expand its scope year after year. With roots stretching back to 1918, Eastern Connecticut Health Network (ECHN) has consistently kept in step with the needs of the community by staying at the forefront of the industry. It does so by constantly listening to and assessing the needs of the community and fi nding the most effective ways to provide the care that meets those needs. ECHN maintains quality throughout all services by investing in innovative technologies and by attracting experienced, highly trained professionals. And it adapts to changes as a result of state or federal legislation, community dynamics or medical developments. Positive growth has been a hallmark of ECHN since the very beginning, when two leading hospitals decided to join together for the benefi t of the community. It marked the fi rst time this happened in Connecticut for reasons other than saving one party from fi nancial distress. Today, ECHN consists of two hospitals, 13 wholly owned companies, 12 joint ventures, dozens of facilities and more than 3,000 employees serving the community. In 2015 alone, ECHN hospitals treated more than 114,000 people with another 60,000 patients under the care of ECHN physicians. And like it has for decades, ECHN is currently undertaking several bold new partnerships and investments to continue growth that answers the community's health care needs. A PARTNERSHIP WITH WALDEN BEHAVIORAL CARE, THE NEW INPATIENT PROGRAM AT ROCKVILLE GENERAL HOSPITAL WILL BECOME A HOME AWAY FROM HOME, DEDICATED TO PATIENTS WITH EATING DISORDERS. SPONSORED REPORT