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The approval of the Certificate of Need clears the way for a proposed sale to go through, but the deal between Yale New Haven Health and Prospect Medical Holdings is in danger.

General Assembly could vote on two different bills impacting how nursing homes in Connecticut are run. One authorizes the use of forensic audits when the Department of Social Services reviews nursing homes’ annual financial reports. Another would require nursing facilities to spend at least 80% of their Medicaid funds on the direct care of residents.

Connecticut lawmakers say the state's approval process for Yale New Haven Health's purchase of three Connecticut hospitals is taking too long.

Prospect Medical Holdings launched a toll-free “incident response line” to answer questions about the breach.

More than 24,000 employees of Prospect Medical Holdings in Connecticut may have had some of their personal information, including Social Security numbers, exposed during the recent cyberattack that paralyzed many operations in three hospitals for nearly six weeks.

The August cyberattack was far more debilitating than hospital officials publicly acknowledged. Now, it threatens a sale of the hospitals to Yale.