Bristol Hospital is a Saint Francis Care partner and offers the best inpatient and outpatient facilities and care for the community of Connecticut; they have an excellent emergency service that works 24 hours a day. They provide families with a single-room maternity unit; this service makes the mother and her child feel better, in a calm and clean room.
Support groups and educational programs, such as fitness, pain management, rehabilitation, and diabetes care are recommended for the benefit of the community, so that all the residents will posses a better quality of life. A very interesting service at Bristol Hospital is the medical library; here you can find information regarding the safeguarding of health; this service helps all medical and hospital staff and the patients in general to learn more about their own situation and how to cope with their medical condition. However, "this service does not substitute for the evaluation of one's condition by a personal health care provider."
At Bristol Hospital you can also find several support groups to maintain people's medical conditions at a high level of recovery and as a way for them to overcome many fears or strange situations they might face through their illness. Some of the groups are: Breast Cancer support group; they join up on Wednesdays, from 5:30 to 7pm at Bristol Hospital Wellness Center and entrance is free. An interesting group which is provided is crohns disease / colitis group; they have monthly meetings from 7pm to 9pm. Other groups are Better Breathing and HIV / AIDS support group. If you need information about these programs you can contact them through the email or over the phone.