by | Jun 12, 2024 2:04 pm | Comments (6)
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Hill Health CEO Taylor (center): "It really did take a village."
Shouts of joy erupted in the Hill as community healthcare leaders, philanthropists, and local and state politicians cut the ribbon on a new 52-bed, $38 million addiction recovery center on Minor Street.
by | Jun 11, 2024 9:11 am | Comments (4)
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Lake Whitney Dam: Ready to be improved for “the next 160 years.”
The Lake Whitney Dam on the border of New Haven and Hamden has been going strong since 1860, when Eli Whitney and the city built it. But it’s in need of rehabilitation — a major construction project — to prepare it for the climate challenges of the next century and beyond. That can be done while also keeping an eye on the community and environmental concerns of the present.
by | Jun 10, 2024 9:42 am | Comments (1)
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Nancy Jordan (right), with Mike Downing Jr. and Langston Dennis, checking out the threads.
There were t‑shirts and button-downs and pullovers, dress pants and jeans and sweatpants, jackets and hoodies and windbeakers, each meticulously organized by size. There were shoes of every style and make. There were household items like cleansers and kitchenware, and personal care essentials like deodorant, shampoo, and conditioner.
None of it was for sale, including the food. At Saturday’s 12th annual Free Market and Health Fair just outside the Dixwell Community “Q” House, everything was, as advertised, free.
by | Jun 7, 2024 9:01 am | Comments (9)
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794 Dixwell Ave.
The leaky roof of 794 Dixwell Ave. will soon get fixed, with the help of $300,000 from the city, in time for a new all-boys charter school to open there in the fall.
Continue reading ‘Alders Fund Clifford Beers, Charter School Roof Repairs’
by | Jun 4, 2024 11:30 am | Comments (0)
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Dr. Pittenger: "So much of our society can be described as alienation from meaning."
Researchers psyched about bringing psychedelics from the underground to the therapist’s office are confident that drugs like MDMA can help those suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
What they’re less sure about: how such experimental treatments might interact with antidepressants, which are widely taken by many patients who would benefit most from a therapeutic trip.
Continue reading ‘Yale Panel Welcomes “Psychedelic Renaissance”’
by | Jun 3, 2024 5:14 pm | Comments (3)
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Robert Farrow and daughter Harmony (center) with U.S. Sen. Blumenthal and Rep. DeLauro.
The local chapter of a federally funded program that fights to keep moms and infants in good health has secured a five-year, $5 million award to subsidize doula care, increase outreach to at-risk communities, and sustain education programs for new and expecting parents.
Continue reading ‘$5M Grant Targets Maternal, Infant Support’
by | May 30, 2024 11:21 am | Comments (38)
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Weed-focused labor organizers & customers Jose Anaya and Jake Serafini: Canna-biz is "like the new gold rush."
Long Wharf Theatre, now itinerant. INSA Cannabis, now on Sargent.
Jake Serafini and Jose Anaya showed up to the ex-Long Wharf Theatre site on Sargent Drive Thursday morning — not to catch a play by Samuel Beckett or Anna Deavere Smith, but instead to buy an eighth of Scout Breath and some weed gummies on opening day of the city’s newest cannabis dispensary.
by | May 29, 2024 4:27 pm | Comments (7)
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Seeking Conn.-grown solutions: Comptroller Scanlon pictured Tuesday during a stop at New Haven's Louis' Lunch.
Connecticut needs to pay doctors and hospitals more for Medicaid care. We also need to find a way to pay for it.
Sean Scanlon says he has an idea.
by | May 28, 2024 1:24 pm | Comments (21)
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Paid sick leave advocates celebrate ...
... Gov. Lamont's signing of bill, alongside Lt. Gov. Bysiewicz and State Sen. Kushner.
The bill doesn’t single out female workers as such.
But everyone who took the microphone to speak at a packed, celebratory press conference heralding the expansion of the state’s paid sick days program made clear on Tuesday that this law — freshly signed by the governor — is meant to make Connecticut a more family-friendly place, by helping women stay in the workforce.
by | May 22, 2024 11:52 am | Comments (4)
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St. Raph's ambulance drop-off area: Closing for construction. Temp drop-off area to be built next door.
How do you double the size of a hospital’s emergency department without displacing ambulances from a construction zone?
Yale New Haven Hospital is seeking to solve that riddle by shutting down a portion of Orchard Street for 18 months — and paying the city an extra $150,000 for the inconvenience — as it builds a larger emergency department for its St. Raphael’s campus.
Continue reading ‘YNHH Seeks Orchard Lane Closure During Construction’
by | May 16, 2024 12:15 pm | Comments (12)
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Smoke rings floating this way?
Neighbors tired of smoke shops pushed back on a Hill native’s plan to turn a vacant Washington Avenue storefront from a place for cutting hair to a venue for cutting deals on sweatsuits and smoking paraphernalia.
by | May 14, 2024 11:42 am | Comments (18)
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Ocean's Shmuel Aizenberg and attorney Gerry Giaimo in housing court.
Ocean Management’s Shmuel Aizenberg won’t have to take the witness stand in Waterbury after all — now that his company has struck a last-minute settlement in a long-standing child lead poisoning lawsuit that had been set to go to trial this week.
That jury trial was to determine how much the local megalandlord had to pay a mom whose son suffered “irreversible brain damage” while living at one of Ocean’s New Haven apartments on Edgewood Avenue.
While the dollar amount of that deal remains secret, public land records show that plenty of cash has been flowing into Ocean’s coffers — as the company has sold another 37 New Haven rental properties for nearly $13 million over the past two months.
by | Apr 22, 2024 6:02 pm | Comments (3)
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.
Continue reading ‘Pride Center Offers Queer Health Check-Up’
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.
Continue reading ‘Report: Overdoses Clustered In Hill, Downtown’
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.
Continue reading ‘"Ultrafine" Pollution Enters Tweed Debate’