Surgical Services include robotic surgery and advanced and minimally invasive techniques in a variety of surgical disciplines, including cardiothoracic, colorectal, gynecologic and breast, neurosurgery, orthopedic joint replacement, plastic/reconstructive, podiatric, spine, urologic, vascular and bariatrics (weight loss surgery).

The Danbury Hospital Research Institute opened in 2010 to study a variety of illness and conditions, and to develop targeted therapies for a new era of personalized medicine.

The institute is currently working to better understand the genetic basis of disease with the particular focus on women's reproductive cancers.

In 2013, Western Connecticut Health Network announced plans to lay off 116 workers in response to state budget cuts.

The Danbury Nurses Union voted 96% to reject a proposal to eliminate evening and weekend shift differentials in order to save the jobs of twenty-five nurses, arguing that the hospitals should cut executive pay and use the $35m annual profit to cover the budget shortfall.