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Patient Beware

by Sharon Bass | Dec 20, 2005 12:49 pm | Comments (0)

A court convicted Dr. Sushil Gupta of sexually abusing a patient. Now the New Haven pulmonologist may never be able to see patients again in this building. He is one of 47 physicians the state is either investigating or has reprimanded so far this year.

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A Health Care Worker’s Bedside Awakening

by Hernando Diosa/ La Voz Hispana | Dec 19, 2005 9:22 am | Comments (2)

Dominick Maldonado (in photo) makes his living working to improve other people’s health care. During a recent hospital stay, he learned what it feels like to be the patient—and how bad an experience that can be. He told his story to the Spanish-language newspaper La Voz Hispana, from which the following story was translated.

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History Made, Again

by Dan Levine | Dec 14, 2005 9:45 pm | Comments (0)

First Connecticut passed an historic campaign reform law. Another historic victory for the public interest came Wednesday. The state’s Freedom of Information Commission (FOIC) ruled that HMOs have to let the public know how they spend hundreds of millions of public dollars meant for poor people’s health care. Advocates say it’s probably the first ruling ever in the U.S. requiring HMOs to abide by freedom of information laws. The Independent’s Dan Levine watched New Haven’s Kari Hartwig and Sheldon Toubman make the case to the FOIC Wednesday (in photo), and he filed this report.

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Show Them the Money

by Dan Levine | Dec 14, 2005 9:39 am | Comments (0)

School and community-based health clinics are efficient and cheap, yet financial stability is still elusive. Private insurers don’t reimburse them for treatment, clinic administrators told lawmakers today, because the managed care companies don’t let the clinics into their provider networks. Is that because the clinics haven’t asked loud enough?

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CORD “Fires Up” A Cold Night

by Melinda Tuhus | Dec 14, 2005 8:55 am | Comments (0)

The drumming and chanting of hundreds of marchers echoed in the freezing air Tuesday night as community members and their supporters (including Fair Haven Alderwoman Migdalia Castro, pictured warming up afterward) rallied in front of Yale-New Haven Hospital. They marked the first anniversary of New Haven’s newest and most active grassroots campaign for social justice, focused on the hospital’s plans to build a new $430 million cancer center.

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A Universal Cause

by Paul Bass | Dec 13, 2005 3:23 pm | Comments (0)

Latinos make up 35 percent of the uninsured population of Connecticut, a fact that has not escaped the notice of Juan Figueroa, executive director of the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut. Figueroa will be in D.C. Wednesday moderating a Congressional briefing on the health insurance crisis facing Latinos across the country. U.S. Rep. John Conyers, one of the sponsors of the briefing, has introduced a bill calling for universal health care coverage, the goal that Figueroa’s foundation is fighting for in Connecticut. (Note: The foundation helps fund this web site.) “Access to health care is the civil rights issue of the 21st century,” Figueroa said.

Survey Says: The System’s Broken

by Sharon Bass | Dec 9, 2005 10:12 am | Comments (1)

Only 6 percent of people in Connecticut think the health care system is working right, according to a survey. More than two-thirds support some form of universal health care.

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Mystery Tags

by Melinda Tuhus | Dec 8, 2005 10:15 am | Comments (0)

It started as a simple question from an Independent reader: Why do all the Yale-New Haven Hospital employee vans have Virginia license plates? Reporter Melinda Tuhus watched the vans drive down York Street and turn on North Frontage Road — yup, Virginia plates.

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A License to Keep AIDS in Mind

by Melinda Tuhus | Dec 6, 2005 8:47 am | Comments (0)

New Havener Chris Cannon (at left in photo) wants people to know that AIDS is not disappearing in Connecticut, so he has launched a campaign for the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue the above license plate. Connecticut ranks eighth in the country in the number of those living with HIV or AIDS. More people died of AIDS in New Haven last year than in any year since 1997. Cannon needs to sign up 400 paid subscribers for the special AIDS license plate before the DMV will issue it. The cost of raising awareness would be $65 for a four-year tag. To help make this happen, contact Cannon by e-mail  or call (203) 641-9738.

Math, Social Studies, Fluoride Rinse

by Dan Levine | Dec 6, 2005 8:46 am | Comments (0)

Most poor kids in New Haven and Bridgeport don’t receive preventive dental care; close to half the kids in Hartford do. Why? Because Hartford has figured out a way to make school-based dental clinics work. Connecticut can learn from the clinics as it works to figure out how to make sure more children get health care. The Independent’s Dan Levine visited the clinics in Hartford and filed this report.

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