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Mel Defilippo, a prevention services manager with A Place to Nourish Your Health (APNH), explains healthcare offerings to event attendees.
“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.
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by | Mar 25, 2024 2:29 pm | Comments (18)
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Chief Jacobson: "We see what happens if our officers aren't well."
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.
by | Mar 19, 2024 3:26 pm | Comments (6)
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.
by | Mar 14, 2024 1:06 pm | Comments (5)
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Parents Claire Roosien, Peter Butler, Vicki Grubaugh appeal to the Board of Ed.
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.
by | Mar 8, 2024 1:00 pm | Comments (2)
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First responders address a 2018 mass overdose on the Green.
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.
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by | Feb 23, 2024 5:16 pm | Comments (11)
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Lactation consultant Dionne Lowndes: Working to destigmatize and accommodate breastfeeding with renewed REACH funding.
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.
by | Feb 23, 2024 12:44 pm | Comments (6)
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Biree Andamarian, James Rawlings, Cece Calhoun at Thursday evening's gathering.
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.
Continue reading ‘Sickle-Cell Breakthrough Hailed; Affordability Push Comes Next’
by | Feb 23, 2024 12:18 pm | Comments (1)
Alders voted to make it easier to share data on older homes with lead paint that pose a threat to children’s health.
by | Feb 21, 2024 9:12 am | Comments (10)
Inside the Arvinas lab.
A growing New Haven biopharma company won “fast-track” federal review for a drug it’s developing to fight breast cancer.
Meanwhile it administered the first human test dose of another drug it has under development, to tackle neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s.
by | Feb 19, 2024 1:09 pm | Comments (1)
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Steve Harvin with his friend Rev. John Cotten at Sunday's event.
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.”
by | Feb 16, 2024 2:04 pm | Comments (7)
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George Carranzo packing up what's now the 2nd pizzeria purchased by Fair Haven Health.
A storied pizzeria that fed Fair Haven for generations will soon transform into a pharmacy providing health care to low-income and uninsured residents.
by | Feb 15, 2024 1:45 pm | Comments (4)
Heilpern: From NYC to the Elm City.
A former leader at New York-Presbyterian is headed to New Haven to serve as the next president of Yale New Haven Hospital.
by | Feb 13, 2024 4:12 pm | Comments (62)
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Tiny particles from Tweed planes like this one have raised concerns about Morris Cove air.
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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by | Feb 1, 2024 5:26 pm | Comments (1)
City Health Director Maritza Bond Thursday at her department's new HQ: Wellness the new "holistic approach."
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.
by | Jan 22, 2024 3:14 pm | Comments (4)
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Monique Ricks on her Healthy Homes-funded porch: Don't forget to remember about radon. The city is distributing 50 free test kits this week.
Monique Ricks can breathe easy — now that she’s sure her home is radon free.
by | Jan 16, 2024 9:30 am | Comments (5)
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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.
by | Dec 5, 2023 12:19 pm | Comments (7)
May 2001 article in the New Haven Advocate.
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.
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by | Nov 21, 2023 2:49 pm | Comments (25)
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Mayor Elicker (at podium) and regional health leaders on Tuesday.
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.
Continue reading ‘Overdose-Prevention Grant Heralded On Grand’
by | Oct 30, 2023 3:22 pm | Comments (7)
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Leonard Gorham with Dr. Frederick Landy at Floyd Little-hosted clinic.
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.
Its cost, ordinarily $500 to $1,500, was $0.00.
Continue reading ‘1,100 Smiles Brightened At Free Dental Clinic’
by | Oct 27, 2023 4:19 pm | Comments (6)
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A lead paint-chipped windowsill in Fair Haven.
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.
Continue reading ‘City Lands $7.7M Federal Lead-Abatement Grant’
by | Oct 24, 2023 3:28 pm | Comments (1)
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Maritza Bond and Rafael Ramos at WNHH FM.
Rafael Ramos grabbed a Swiffer and a damp rag and hit the streets this week, to help save the lives of the youngest New Haveners.
by | Oct 24, 2023 9:00 am | Comments (59)
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Pastors Cesar Padilla, Teresa Rivera, and Miguel Castro: Each overcame addiction "when the Lord Jesus came in our lives."
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.
by | Oct 24, 2023 8:34 am | Comments (0)
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At Monday's dental clinic-boosting press conference.
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.
Continue reading ‘Free Dental Clinic Coming To Floyd Little Athletic Center’
by | Oct 16, 2023 1:45 pm | Comments (2)
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This type of sliding-door won't face Grand Ave., per Fair Haven Health application.
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.
Continue reading ‘New Clinic Entrance To Pivot From Sidewalk’
by | Oct 12, 2023 8:55 am | Comments (10)
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Fatou braids a client's hair, hopes for more landlord accountability.
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.
