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Jun 16, 2025 9:37 am
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Anthony Dawson promoting early cancer detection.
After a blood pressure cuff tightened and loosened around his arm at a packed Q House gymnasium, Orlando got a reality check.
High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, can put you at risk for stroke, heart attack, and other problems, Yale New Haven Health nurse Cheryl Hoey told him, upon pronouncing his blood pressure a little high. Nearly half of adults who have hypertension don’t realize it.
“Let’s talk about what you can do,” she said, before counseling him on diet and exercise and recommending that he make an appointment with his primary care doctor.
It was part of a larger message at the Men’s Health Awareness Expo, which took place last Saturday and which began with a one-mile community walk led by Dwight Alder Frank Douglass and Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison, as well as members of the Delta Iota Sigma chapter of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.
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Jun 11, 2025 3:33 pm
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Officials make it ... official.
Officials cut the ribbon on Fair Haven Community Health Care’s expanded new home as they vowed to work hard to keep delivering health care for the poor at a time of looming federal budget cuts.
From APT's site plan application: The location and rendering for the nonprofit's proposed new HQ.
The APT Foundation hopes to begin construction this fall — and complete work by next summer — on a new 40,500 square-foot medical office building, methadone clinic, and pharmacy with 99 on-site parking spaces to be built atop a Sargent Drive lot currently owned by the state.
Those details and more are included in a site plan application submitted by the local healthcare nonprofit to the City Plan Commission about a project that is also the subject of a separate, parallel proposed city land deal.
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Jun 9, 2025 4:46 pm
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Lagarde, with the third-floor collage: "I wanted to create something people would be proud of. I think we succeeded."
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Fair Haven Health's new HQ, at the corner of Grand and James.
Art and exam rooms, on the second floor.
A collage hangs on the third floor of Fair Haven Community Health Care’s new headquarters on Grand Avenue.
Through black and white photos — of longtime former executive director Katrina Clark, of a list of the first board members, of a 1971 handwritten message declaring, “Clinic Patients: The Clinic Belongs To You!” — the collage tells the story of the community health center’s first five and a half decades of serving Fair Haven.
Then, by the time the collage rounds the corner, it bursts into color, and points towards the health center’s future in a brand new 35,600 square-foot medical-office building that, after less than two years of construction, is just about complete.
The Elicker administration has begun chopping down trees on an overgrown Winthrop Avenue lot — in advance of trying to tear down a dilapidated former nursing home later this summer.
The property is also the subject of a new anti-blight lien as well as a new foreclosure lawsuit, in which the city claims the landlord owes more than $250,000 in back taxes, interest, and penalties. The landlord, meanwhile, has dismissed that legal action as mere posturing by a city more interested in collecting taxes than fostering development.
First responders seek to revive victims passed out on the Upper Green during an overdose spike in August 2018.
A map of where the most recent overdoses took place.
One person died following 19 reported overdoses that took place across the city between Sunday and Tuesday.
According to one of the city’s front-line addiction healthcare workers, there were also at least four “saves” during that same time period — including by someone in a Congress Avenue barbershop who rushed out into the street to use the life-saving medication Narcan.
APT's proposed new Long Wharf HQ, methadone clinic.
The Elicker administration has reached a tentative agreement with the APT Foundation that, if approved by the Board of Alders, would see the city sell a 1.5‑acre plot on Long Wharf to allow for the development of a new 36,000 square-foot medical office building, outpatient treatment facility, and pharmacy.
As part of this deal, the APT Foundation would close its existing methadone clinic on Congress Avenue in the Hill and relocate those operations to its to-be-built new headquarters on Sargent Drive.
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May 26, 2025 10:39 am
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Robin Little-Bowman: Don't complicate health.
Vendor Keesha Davis holds a handmade Croc.
Healthy lifestyle habits can be difficult to adopt, but fitness trainer and wellness coach Robin Little-Bowman says that it doesn’t have to be complicated. To reduce processed sugars, eat fresh fruits and meal prep at home. To increase your daily step count, park farther from where you need to go. Instead of paying for a gym membership, get workout equipment from Five Below.
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May 15, 2025 10:46 am
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Cutting the ribbon on state's first DBT residential program.
Accompanied by two therapy dogs outside of a house in the Heights, clinicians and government workers celebrated the opening of Connecticut’s first Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) residential program — a five-bed facility where residents who struggle with complex trauma receive specialized treatments including music, art, and pet therapy.
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May 14, 2025 8:19 pm
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HHS Secretary RFK, Jr. and Rep. DeLauro, at Wednesday's House Appropriations Committee hearing.
WASHINGTON— Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, accused Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday of “jeopardizing the health, safety, and well-being of millions of American families” by “a dangerous dismantling” of his agency.
State consumer protection chief Bryan T. Cafferelli: Consumers beware.
Wait… Was that a vanilla milk chocolate Häagen-Dazs ice cream bar selling for $5.99? Or a 36.25 percent THC-infused “Häagen-Za” bar selling for $59.99?
What looked at first like an American ice cream staple was actually a highly potent cannabis edible, allegedly on the shelves of the toy-store-imitating smoke shop “Vape R Us” on Wednesday.
By Thursday morning, the “Häagen-Za” bar sat in a garbage bag alongside 100 pounds of other cannabis products seized by police from three smoke shops across the city.
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Apr 29, 2025 8:08 pm
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Connecticut Public Health Commissioner Manisha Juthani gets ready to testify at a House Democratic hearing on President Donald Trump's budget cuts.
WASHINGTON — A panel of health experts, including Connecticut Public Health Commissioner Manisha Juthani, warned Congressional Democrats Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s proposed spending reductions threaten Americans’ public health, from young children to senior citizens.
“Vape R Us” can stay put at the entrance to Westville Village despite the city’s new zoning restrictions — as the Elicker administration goes after the smoke shop for marketing tobacco products to children.
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Apr 22, 2025 9:43 am
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NHFD Paramedic Keith Kerr treats a man who overdosed on heroin.
As emergency medical response teams across the country struggle with worker shortages, a ceremony at the Yale School of Medicine highlighted a new statewide program meant to boost paramedic recruitment.
Ten of the 44 students who graduated at that Friday ceremony were part of a new, statewide “Earn While You Learn” program — which pays aspiring paramedics as they learn the ropes.
Murphy: "Trying to do my small part to help build a national opposition movement against what's happening."
“The old tools are still the new tools,” U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy told a room of Fair Haven healthcare providers and advocates worried about potential Republican-led cuts to Medicaid.
“As much as politics has changed, it is still turnout and protest and volume that makes a difference.”
Lagarde: "We're not gonna break any laws. We're not gonna abandon any patients."
Fair Haven Community Health Care is looking to open a separate private practice — with no federal funding — so that it can continue to treat all of its patients without violating any of President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
Elicker (center): "We don't need any more of these shops."
Grand Asmoke Shop, time to local license up.
Mayor Justin Elicker put pen to paper at a City Hall signing ceremony that could lead to $1,000-a-day fines for rule-breaking smoke shops — as part of new local regulations governing where and how retailers can sell tobacco and vaping products in New Haven.
Fair Haven Health's Dr. Tejada Arias: Medicaid affects every generation.
Politicians and healthcare providers gathered to send a message that cutting Medicaid is a matter of life and death.
They made the case that at stake is the well-being not only of those insured by the program — including roughly 60,000 New Haveners — but of their families and communities as well.
Furlow (at mic): “This is one step towards a more healthy and vibrant city.”
New Haven officially has room for one last smoke shop — which will have to obtain a municipal license, alongside all of the city’s 212 existing tobacco retailers — thanks to new zoning and public health regulations passed by the Board of Alders.
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Feb 4, 2025 4:12 pm
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Nunez (right) leads the way: "Like sports, the arts save kids."
“Get out your heads and get into your bodies!” Hillhouse High School dance teacher Millette Nunez instructed her students, as each of them danced to the upbeat rhythm of Afro-Caribbean guitar and drums.
Zrelak: "What you flush down the toilet, dump down the drain, this is where it ends up."
Yuck: "Raggy material," like wipes and tampons, that ends up in the dumpster.
Gary Zrelak, director of operations for the Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority, wielded a several-foot-long plastic pipe with a valve at the end, which he nicknamed the “sludge judge.”
He was on a catwalk over the water draining out of the last of three enormous tanks at the East Shore Water Pollution Abatement Facility, taking a core sample of the 14-foot-deep pool.
As he expected, below the surface, the water was still brown, tinted with matter that was settling slowly to the bottom of the pool. But the top three feet of water were clear — almost ready to be released into the New Haven Harbor on a cold winter day.
The tank — and the two preceding it, and the entire facility that runs them — “is connected to everyone, every household and commercial building” in a substantial part of the greater New Haven area, Zrelak said. “They have a toilet, they’re coming here.”
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Jan 31, 2025 11:44 am
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Community resilience director Kemp: "I want us to reframe how we think about the victims."
In response to impending Trump administration cuts to Medicaid, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro brought together local healthcare providers, city officials, gun violence survivors, and researchers to hear about how an about-face in federal policy might affect New Haven’s anti-violence public health interventions.
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Jan 27, 2025 3:11 pm
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200 execs at 100 College, for "legislative breakfast."
Bracing for a federal funding drought and higher state costs for Medicare and Medicaid, Gov. Ned Lamont urged pharma executives to work with Hartford on cutting the cost of prescription drugs Monday morning at a gathering held by the life sciences lobbying group BioCT.
