Connecticut emergency room wait times

ER wait times › Connecticut

Across 27 Connecticut hospitals that report the measure, the median emergency department visit lasts 3 hr 18 min — 48 min longer than the national median of 2 hr 30 min. The shortest is Sharon Hospital at 2 hr 10 min.

Medians over a full year, for patients treated and discharged rather than admitted. Busy hospitals treat sicker patients, so a longer wait is not by itself a mark against a hospital. How this measure works.

#	Hospital	City	Median wait	Left before seen	ER volume	CMS rating
1	Sharon Hospital	Sharon	2 hr 10 min	0%	low	5/5
2	Lawrence & Memorial Hospital	New London	2 hr 11 min	1%	very high	3/5
3	Windham Comm Mem Hosp & Hatch Hosp	Willimantic	2 hr 18 min	1%	medium	3/5
4	Bridgeport Hospital	Bridgeport	2 hr 20 min	1%	very high	4/5
5	Charlotte Hungerford Hospital	Torrington	2 hr 27 min	0%	high	3/5
6	Middlesex Hospital	Middletown	2 hr 39 min	1%	very high	3/5
7	Griffin Hospital	Derby	2 hr 45 min	2%	medium	4/5
8	Hospital of Central Connecticut, the	New Britain	2 hr 53 min	3%	very high	2/5
9	William W Backus Hospital	Norwich	2 hr 54 min	1%	very high	4/5
10	Greenwich Hospital Association	Greenwich	2 hr 56 min	1%	high	5/5
11	Johnson Memorial Hospital	Stafford Springs	3 hr 2 min	1%	low	3/5
12	Bristol Hospital	Bristol	3 hr 10 min	3%	medium	2/5
13	Bristol Hospital	Bristol	3 hr 10 min	3%	medium	2/5
14	Yale-New Haven Hospital	New Haven	3 hr 18 min	2%	very high	5/5
15	Stamford Hospital	Stamford	3 hr 20 min	2%	very high	5/5
16	Norwalk Hospital Association	Norwalk	3 hr 20 min	1%	high	3/5
17	Norwalk Hospital	Norwalk	3 hr 20 min	1%	high	3/5
18	Danbury Hospital	Danbury	3 hr 29 min	2%	very high	4/5
19	Midstate Medical Center	Meriden	3 hr 40 min	1%	high	4/5
20	Day Kimball Hospital	Putnam	3 hr 41 min	1%	low	2/5
21	Manchester Memorial Hospital	Central Manchester	3 hr 43 min	3%	medium	4/5
22	Waterbury Hospital	Waterbury	3 hr 47 min	3%	medium	2/5
23	St Vincent's Medical Center	Bridgeport	3 hr 48 min	2%	very high	4/5
24	John Dempsey Hospital	Farmington	4 hr 6 min	1%	high	3/5
25	Saint Marys Hospital	Waterbury	4 hr 9 min	5%	high	3/5
26	Hartford Hospital	Hartford	4 hr 29 min	0%	very high	4/5
27	St Francis Hospital & Medical Center	Hartford	4 hr 35 min	3%	very high	2/5

Source: CMS measure OP_18b, published July 2026. Hospitals with too few cases to report are not listed here; they still have a page in the Connecticut directory. Not affiliated with CMS. For a medical emergency, call 911.