by | Jun 28, 2023 3:51 pm | Comments (14)
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Rosa DeLauro (center) at Wednesday's courthouse-steps presser.
Connecticut has been a sanctuary for decades for those seeking abortions — and will remain a haven for women’s reproductive healthcare, even as the court-toppled Roe v. Wade precedent recedes into recent history.
Continue reading ‘1 Year Later, Abortion Advocates Remember Roe’
by | Jun 26, 2023 4:06 pm | Comments (6)
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Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison cheers on Q House healthcare.
At the newly opened Cornell Scott Hill Health Center at 197 Dixwell.
Gayle Hall, a self-described “lifetime member of the Q House,” celebrated a newfound chance to see her doctor at the newly-revived community center in the neighborhood she calls home.
by | Jun 22, 2023 11:04 am | Comments (3)
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The planned new rehab site at 215 Whalley.
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The ex-CVS's closed front doors and chainlink fences.
An abstinence-focused drug rehab clinic won its final needed city approval to relocate to the former CVS site at Whalley Avenue and Orchard Street.
by | Jun 16, 2023 10:56 am | Comments (0)
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Jamila Hokanson, Sasha Lehrer, Jordan Sloshower, Damian Paglia, Stephanie Kilpatrick, in West Rock Wellness's art gallery.
A team of clinicians and wellness instructors has opened a new mental health center in Westville, offering everything from psychotherapy to mind-body medicine to ketamine-assisted psychedelic therapies.
This panoply of offerings is unified by their greater aim to create connection and community.
Continue reading ‘Whalley Wellness Center Explores Therapy's Frontier’
by | Jun 13, 2023 12:10 pm | Comments (0)
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Health Department's current rented home at 54 Meadow.
Health Director Bond and Acting Controller Gormany Monday.
The city’s Health Department plans to stay in rented office and clinic space on Meadow Street through the end of the year as renovations wrap up at its new publicly owned headquarters to-be on Chapel Street.
Continue reading ‘Health Department Eyes 6 More Months On Meadow St.’
by | Jun 7, 2023 4:16 pm | Comments (1)
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Rodriguez with Zoe in Wooster Square Park.
Zoe got an extra walk through Wooster Square Park Wednesday morning so her owner could get some air before hunkering down to six hours of indoor Zoom.
by | Jun 6, 2023 12:05 pm | Comments (15)
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794 Dixwell: Still APT owned, but not for long?
Newhallville-Hamden Strong Chair Jeanette Sykes: APT pushback brought community together.
A hundred Newhallville and southern Hamden community members celebrated news that the APT Foundation methadone clinic nonprofit is still open to selling its recently-purchased Dixwell Avenue building to a local children’s mental health nonprofit.
by | May 15, 2023 11:51 am | Comments (0)
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Fair Haven Health's Suzanne Lagarde with renderings of the planned new Grand Ave. clinic.
A light-saturated waiting area. A lush outdoor patio. A rooftop terrace alive with plants and trees.
The images, exhibited on an easel at the Atwater Senior Center, were only representative of what the new Fair Haven Community Health Care clinic could be — but they took Denise Dean’s breath away.
Dean, FHCHC’s person-centered care coordinator, has been at the clinic for over 20 years. To judge from the palpable sense of excitement among the dozen or so residents at a recent community gathering, she wasn’t alone in her feeling of welcome anticipation.
Continue reading ‘Community Care To Come With Clinic Expansion’
by | May 12, 2023 10:17 am | Comments (3)
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NICU Family Support Specialist Michelle Gray with AnneMarie Rivera Berrios and her son Joshua ...
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... dropping off Mother's Day gift bags for NICU moms, with friend Lisa Milone.
AnneMarie Rivera Berrios pulled up to the front entrance of Yale New Haven’s York Street hospital campus with a trunk full of gift bags, a son on the cusp of turning 3, and still-vivid memories of the kind gestures that helped her through her own time as a NICU mom.
by | May 10, 2023 4:45 pm | Comments (15)
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Gov. Lamont, YNHH's Chris O'Connor, and Yale epidemiologist Albert Ko on Wednesday.
Gov. Ned Lamont joined hospital officials in New Haven to declare an official end to the Covid-19 public health emergency — and reflect on lessons for the next one.
by | May 10, 2023 3:04 pm | Comments (5)
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Rick Woods contributing to city coffers outside Affinity.
City government picked up extra cash for cleaner streets and other state-allowed public service programs as local sales rack up for legal pot and mini-liquor-bottle “nips.”
by | May 9, 2023 8:47 am | Comments (11)
YNHH's James Dodington: Exploring "new ground nationally."
Shooting victims and their families are now eligible to receive one-time checks worth up to $1,000 apiece — thanks to an expanded hospital-led cash transfer program focused on supporting targets of interpersonal abuse while disrupting a broader cycle of social violence.
by | May 1, 2023 2:12 pm | Comments (0)
The author, at right, planting butterfly garden at last year's walk.
On Sunday, May 7, I’ll be joining hundreds of other walkers and participants at the Discovery to Cure Beverly Levy Walk and Festival 2023.
by | Apr 24, 2023 10:43 am | Comments (7)
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Dr. Nancy Stanwood with U.S. Sen. Blumenthal on Monday: "The reprieve is only temporary."
Connecticut patients seeking an abortion can continue to access — for now — a safe, legal, and decades-old medication that is commonly used across the country to help end a pregnancy in its first trimester.
But the U.S. Supreme Court’s upholding of mifepristone’s federal approval is only temporary. And an ideologically motivated attack on the drug’s legitimacy could still prevail.
Continue reading ‘Caution, Concern Greet Abortion Pill Legal Reprieve’
by | Apr 19, 2023 2:50 pm | Comments (2)
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Outdoor fitness equipment slated for Wooster Memorial Park.
Wooster Street parkgoers should soon have a new climbing structure, pull up bars, and other outdoor fitness equipment to help them exercise in the public greenspace, thanks to a donation from the Dalio Foundation.
by | Apr 19, 2023 9:11 am | Comments (11)
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A Peels & Wheels bin-full of compost: Coming soon to NHPS?
As New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) searches for a new food service director, the district is also looking to make some sustainability-centered changes to how it handles what doesn’t get eaten — including by introducing school-based composting programs.
by | Apr 18, 2023 12:02 pm | Comments (15)
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Mohamed Lamine behind the counter at the newly opened smoke shop at the old Egidio's Hair Studio on Orange Street. (Below)
A former Orange Street hair salon has newly opened its doors as a smoke shop.
Several months after a former Chapel Street cellphone store shuttered to become a smoke shop.
Not long after the former Ann Taylor on the Green cycled through its afterlife as a rapid Covid testing site to become — wait for it — a smoke shop.
Continue reading ‘Surprise! Downtown Gets ... Another Smoke Shop’
by | Apr 10, 2023 4:45 pm | Comments (12)
State Rep. Robyn Porter: "It's birth injustice we're talking about."
More rooms for moms to lactate at work and more Black mothers breastfeeding their babies.
by | Apr 10, 2023 12:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Workshop attendee Nathalie Garcia: "You just need to be ready and know how to take care of yourself and others."
A box of Narcan nasal spray.
Shrunken pupils, shallow breathing and blue nail beds are signs that someone may be overdosing on opioids — and cues that more New Haveners may now be able to pick up on, thanks to a library-hosted class educating the public on how to intervene in such situations.
by | Mar 29, 2023 3:23 pm | Comments (9)
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Getting swabbed at Murphy's former Day Street test site in May 2020.
Another federal judge dismissed another one of pandemic “profiteer” Dr. Steven Murphy’s million-dollar lawsuits, after finding that doctors do not have the right to sue insurers under the CARES Act for withholding Covid-test reimbursements.
by | Mar 27, 2023 8:46 am | Comments (3)
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A sample of Tierra Soap Co.'s offerings.
For some, a bar of soap is a common household item that helps them get their body clean. For Tierra Soap Co., a bar of soap has become a fusion of art, wellness, and culture as well as a way to connect to earth, nature, and community.
by | Mar 22, 2023 4:53 pm | Comments (25)
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City social services director Mehul Dalal, Yale epidemiologist Robert Heimer, and DESK leader Steve Werlin: All in support of harm reduction center pilot.
City public health experts and homelessness-services advocates traveled to Hartford — online and in person — to support a proposal to counter a fatally rising tide of local opioid overdoses by providing a safe area to consume drugs under medical supervision.
by | Mar 21, 2023 5:04 pm | Comments (4)
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State Rep. Juan Candelaria, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Fair Haven Health CEO Suzanne Legarde and Fair Haven Alder Sarah Miller accept the symbolic check Tuesday.
A Fair Haven-anchoring community health center has landed $3 million in federal funds to help cover the costs of constructing a new neighborhood clinic — as that same center gears up to tear down nearby apartments and relocate tenants in service of a broader campus expansion estimated to cost up to $40 million.
Continue reading ‘$3M From Feds Boost Health Clinic Expansion’
by | Mar 10, 2023 2:56 pm | Comments (10)
Health Director Bond and Lt. Gov. Bysiewicz on Friday.
“Let’s be the 21st state to pass this legislation!”
With those words of encouragement, city Health Director Maritza Bond joined Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz in Fair Haven to call on Connecticut to allow pharmacists to prescribe birth control pills.
by | Mar 7, 2023 3:41 pm | Comments (19)
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Democratic mayoral challenger Tom Goldenberg: "This is an inappropriate place" for a methadone clinic.
APT patient Jeffrey Culp: "What happens to the people where this place saved their lives?"
A Democratic mayoral candidate traveled to Congress Avenue to call for the immediate closure and relocation of a controversial methadone clinic.
One of the clinic’s patients posed the candidate a question: What about the many lives that have been saved from the depths of heroin addiction by the APT Foundation’s treatments? One saved life, he continued, is his own.
Continue reading ‘Patient Presses Politician On APT Critique’
