Hartford HealthCare completes acquisition of St. Vincent's Medical Center

Hartford HealthCare said Tuesday it has completed its acquisition of St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, establishing a beachhead in Fairfield County and challenging the dominance of Yale New Haven Health System in the area. The parent of Hartford Hospital and five others in Connecticut will operate St. Vincent’s as a Catholic hospital. St. Vincent’s, which was founded in 1903 by the Daughters of Charity, is part of Ascension, the nation’s largest nonprofit health system.