Day Kimball Healthcare Facts

Day Kimball Healthcare (DKH) is a premier provider of integrated healthcare services in Northeast Connecticut. The service area includes 450 square miles, spanning 13 towns across Northeast Connecticut. DKH serves 70,000 of the approximated 100,000 residents of those communities through our high-quality, comprehensive medical services delivered by skilled medical professionals, close to home.

Services Overview

Our physicians offer comprehensive services that integrate primary care medicine with specialties such as emergency medicine, cardiology, neurology, women’s health, pediatrics, cancer treatment, general surgery, mental health programs, in-home and hospice care and more.

Each year, some 42,000 seek primary and specialty care through our Day Kimball Medical Group practices, with 123,000 office visits each year, while another 107,100 utilize DKH’s inpatient, outpatient (ambulatory care), diagnostic and emergency services.

Approximately 50% of the primary care physicians in Windham County are employed by Day Kimball Medical Group and 80% of our employees live in the communities where we provide care.

Jobs overview

  • 1,345 DKH staff with an employed payroll of $74.3 million
  • 1,446 “ripple effect”* jobs with a payroll of $72.2 million
  • 2,791 total jobs with a total payroll of $146.5 million

Healthcare Spending in addition to Payroll

  • $59.3 million spent on goods and services
  • $57.6 million created in “ripple effect”* spending
  • $116.9 million total impact of hospital spending in addition to payroll

Capital improvements

  • $1.4 million spent on buildings and equipment
  • $1.4 million additional economic activity generated
  • $2.8 million total impact of spending on capital improvements

Awards

CMS Five Star Rating

Day Kimball has achieved the highest four- or five-star quality rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Nationally, DKH ranks in the top 20 percent of eligible hospitals that have earned this distinction.

Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade

Over the last three years, DKH has earned an “A” grade from the Leapfrog Group’s Hospital Safety Grade, a national distinction recognizing DKH’s achievements protecting patients from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections.