St. Francis Care and Yale-New Haven's Smilow Cancer Hospital said Tuesday that they've signed a letter of intent to explore an oncology partnership to serve the Greater Hartford market.
St. Francis Care, whose flagship hospital is Hartford's St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, said it has paid to join a Chicago-based health accelerator and consultancy called Avia.
St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center's Mount Sinai campus in Hartford has purchased two hyperbaric chambers, which doubles its patient treatment capacity, according to the New York company that installed the chambers.