How the Connecticut file is built

Every value comes from a Connecticut record: the dockets and documents on the state's CON portal, and the archived Office of Health Strategy (OHS) lists for 2015 to 2017. The program moved from OHS to the Department of Public Health on July 1, 2026; the portal and docket numbers did not change. Each row links its decision where one was found.

Sources

The CON portal lists every docket entered on it, nearly all from late 2017 on, with the applicant, proposal category, CON type, status, filer town and expenditure field. Each docket's document list gives the application, completeness letters, hearing notices, intervenor petitions and rulings, and the decision or agreed settlement. 861 portal documents were downloaded, 340 of them decisions, settlements and withdrawals.

History and archive copies

Dockets from 2015 to 2017 that never reached the portal come from the archived OHS lists: CON decisions, completed applications and determinations, with 71 decision PDFs. OHS's own summaries count 30 CON applications received in 2016 and 24 in 2017; this file has 20 and 15, because the lists miss some applications withdrawn in those years.

Reading the decisions

Received, deemed complete, notice and hearing dates come from the procedural history in the decision or settlement. Capital cost comes from the decision, else the archived list, else the portal field, which is kept in its own column. 159 scanned files were read by OCR of their first and last four pages. Intervenors and appeals were read by hand from the petitions, rulings and court opinions.

Matching and outside sources

Rows are matched by docket number. Hospital applicants are matched to CMS records by hand, giving the CMS certification number and today's CMS-listed owner on 101 CON-family rows. Court opinions add the appeal on three rows.

Checks on every row

Docket number matched across the portal, the archived lists and the decision text

Both values kept, with each source named, when the portal and a document disagree (90 rows carry one)

Ten rows checked by hand against their documents, across 2015 to 2026 and every outcome

Five faults found in that check were fixed before the file was final

Portal read at one request every 1.1 seconds or slower

What the file does not have yet

2016 and 2017 are incomplete: some applications withdrawn or still open in those years never reached the portal.

Determinations from 2018 on carry the portal category, not a project description, and 17 from 2017 have no result that could be separated.

33 decided CON-family dockets have no decision file among the documents read.

Connecticut has no separate staff report. The hearing officer's proposed final decision is the closest thing, and a column for it is not built yet.

Filer town is the filer's mailing town on the portal, not always the project site.