WESTPORT – Hospital for Special Surgery and Stamford Health Monday officially opened HSS Orthopedics with Stamford Health-Westport as part of a collaboration. The nearly 10,000-square-foot new regional outpatient center expands the Fairfield County footprint of the 8-year-old partnership.
The new office at 276 Post Road West is the second HSS and Stamford Health collaboration to come to the Westport area since the opening of HSS Sports Rehab-Westport in 2022. Additional physician office locations and sports rehabilitation facilities are located in Stamford, Greenwich, New Canaan, Wilton, Norwalk and Hamden.
“We’re really excited to build on the commitment we’ve made alongside Stamford Health to enhance orthopedic care options to the residents of Westport and surrounding areas,” said Dr. Samuel A. Taylor, sports medicine surgeon and medical director of the Stamford HSS Sports Rehab outpatient center. “Patients now have increased access to world-class orthopedic care across a broad range of services.”
“Our goal is get people back to doing the things they like to do,” Taylor added. “Getting people back to the levels of mobility that they expect in their lives, that they need in their lives.”
The Westport outpatient features seven provider offices, 12 exam rooms, and two X-ray suites with services provided by Stamford Health Radiology. Highly specialized physicians and staff will offer care in hand and upper extremities, joint replacement, physiatry, spine, and sports medicine (surgical and non-surgical). Later this fall, the foot and ankle service will be available. Additionally, the center will launch HSS Orthopedics Now in November, becoming the second location in Connecticut to provide quicker access to orthopedic care for sudden injuries and pain to patients 12 years and older.
Kathleen Silard, president and CEO of Stamford Health, was among the handful of HSS and Stamford Health executives to introduce the outpatient center to Westport.
“Over the past seven years we have advanced the orthopedic care that we have offered patients in this region tremendously,” Silard said. “And our collaboration has grown by every measure, including offering groundbreaking treatments, opening new locations like this beautiful center we are in today.”
First Selectwoman Jennifer Tooker led the welcome wagon from the Town of Westport.
“I couldn’t be more delighted that HSS has opened this location,” Tooker said. “We are a town of 28,000 people, we are small but we like to think of ourselves as being very mighty. We pride ourselves in attracting, from a commercial standpoint, really world class operations here.”
She paid the ultimate compliment to the HSS-Stamford Health executives.
“What you all are doing is not only a world class organization is you are servicing and helping and working with my residents,” she said. “That is fabulous.”
The town of Westport also has a historical connection to HSS as the birthplace of HSS’s third Surgeon-in-Chief William B. Coley. One of the town’s notable early families, the Coleys were prominent farmers and commercial shippers for 200 years. William Coley was born in 1862 in the Saugatuck neighborhood. The Coleytown section of Westport was named after the family.
