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Laura Glesby |
Apr 22, 2024 6:02 pm
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“I’ve never, ever gone to a place like this before,” said Darnell Ray, taking in the flurry of queer-affirming healthcare and self-care opportunities that filled the New Haven Pride Center.
Sometimes police respond over and over again to the same address for mental health calls that would best be served by an agency like Clifford Beers or COMPASS or the Veterans Affairs medical center.
So the city’s police department wants to add a new lieutenant position focused on making sure those connections take place — for the betterment of community and officer “health and wellness” alike.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Mar 19, 2024 3:26 pm
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The city is poised to start peeling lingering lead paint off old walls — after alders voted to allow data sharing to proactively track and eliminate the endangerment to childhood health.
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Maya McFadden |
Mar 14, 2024 1:06 pm
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Worthington Hooker School parents are pleading for a school nurse at the school’s K‑2 campus on Canner Street — a concern they initially raised to the Board of Education back in December.
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Laura Glesby |
Mar 8, 2024 1:00 pm
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Overdose deaths have hit the Hill particularly hard since 2020, while non-fatal overdoses in the region were concentrated on or around the New Haven Green.
Fair Haven doctors will soon be able to “prescribe” fruits and vegetables to food-insecure patients, thanks to a new round of federal funding for health equity advocacy at CARE.
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Kamini Purushothaman |
Feb 23, 2024 12:44 pm
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A panel of doctors lauded the recent approval of CASGEVY, a gene therapy for sickle-cell disease, but called for advocacy to make the treatment affordable, especially for people on Medicaid.
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Allan Appel |
Feb 19, 2024 1:09 pm
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The same God that protected Steve Harvin in combat in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993, as a soldier with the 75th Army Ranger Regiment, is continuing to protect — and heal — him in an ongoing battle with cancer.
Sunday evening Harvin raised his hand in praise, along with more than a dozen other cancer survivors in a moving, music and prayer-filled celebration inside a New Haven church billed as “Faith Over Cancer.”
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Laura Glesby |
Feb 16, 2024 2:04 pm
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A storied pizzeria that fed Fair Haven for generations will soon transform into a pharmacy providing health care to low-income and uninsured residents.
An air pollution researcher reported finding that unregulated “ultrafine” particles spike when Tweed airplanes take off and land — prompting neighbors to consider whether to adjust their daily routines to avoid air pollution, and the airport to double down on plans to expand their operations.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Feb 1, 2024 5:26 pm
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City officials cut the ribbon on a “health and wellness” center — and hoped the fresh color scheme and branding strategy could sell STI tests, school physicals and flu vaccinations to the public as presents rather than punishments.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jan 16, 2024 9:30 am
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New Haven nursing home patients may fret less about flu season next year — if a Bronx-based assisted living company gets the green light to build 150 beds, pave half as many parking spaces and bring ultraviolet disinfection tech to the Hill neighborhood.
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Lisa Reisman |
Dec 5, 2023 12:19 pm
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On May 31, 2001, an article, headlined “The Predator on the Hill,” appeared in the now-defunct New Haven Advocate. The predator: Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Roughly $10 million in federal aid will flow to the New Haven area over the next five years to help municipal health departments take a regional approach in combating the opioid epidemic through the hiring of 10 case-management “navigators” and the cross-town sharing of overdose data.
This aid comes as the number of overdose deaths in 2022 reached 490 in New Haven county, including 128 in the city itself.
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Lisa Reisman |
Oct 30, 2023 3:22 pm
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In the midst of a teeming bazaar of dental specialists cleaning, drilling, and extracting at Floyd Little Athletic Center, Leonard Gorham, a 71-year-old Air Force veteran from New Haven, relaxed into his dental chair, waiting to be fitted for a partial denture.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 27, 2023 4:19 pm
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Lead paint hazards will be removed from 200 more New Haven homes — and 130 local contractors, maintenance workers, and landlords will receive training in how to do that children’s-health-protecting work — now that the city has been awarded a new $7.7 million federal grant.
Three pastors and a mayoral challenger took to the steps of City Hall to criticize the Elicker administration for even considering establishing a safe-use injection site downtown — with the clergy arguing that spirituality is the best balm for addiction, and the Republican candidate claiming that city government is further along in such a plan than it has made itself out to be.
Eight hundred volunteers will be be descending upon Sherman Parkway later this week to provide cost-free, first-come-first-served dental care to New Haveners in need of everything from x‑rays to fillings to tooth extractions to limited root canals.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 16, 2023 1:45 pm
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The sliding-door front entrance to Fair Haven Community Health Care’s new Grand Avenue clinic building won’t face Grand Avenue, but will instead point east towards the center’s existing headquarters — in order to prioritize accessibility for patients with disabilities and to avoid existing high-voltage power lines.
A new layer of city regulation is coming to local hair, piercing, tattoo, and nail salons — sparking a debate over the burden of annual inspection fees, and prompting one African hair braider to hope that more leverage against neglectful commercial landlords is on the horizon.