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Happier days, before the collapse: site director Jarel Gallman, public relations director Jackie James, CEO Peter Schorr, Alder (and former facility employee) Ron Hurt, Mayor Justin Elicker at New Haven facility's 2020 ribbon-cutting.
A drug rehab company that shuttered its two New Haven facilities amid two executive suicides over the last week is nearly $230,000 behind in local real estate taxes — with its next $103,000-plus city tax bill due next week.
That’s among the revelations that are emerging about years of financial woes and “corporate anarchy” that plagued for-profit Retreat Behavioral Health before its sudden collapse this past week throwing hundreds of patients and workers into the cold in three different states.
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CEO Peter Schorr, CAO Scott Korogodsky: Both found dead in less than a week.
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Jackie James: "No one is responding from headquarters. We should come together to support people that are truly in need of support and jobs."
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All locations now closed indefinitely.
Chaos and uncertainty at the parent company of one of New Haven’s largest drug rehab clinics have left 160 workers burned by missed paychecks and patients hustling for new treatment options.
Retreat Behavioral Health’s facilities in three different states, including Connecticut, appear to be closed indefinitely — amidst a $17 million foreclosure lawsuit in Florida, and the second death of a company executive in less than a week.
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Retreat's 1 Long Wharf clinic: Now closed, too.
A drug rehab facility that abruptly closed its in-patient center on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard last weekend has now shuttered its outpatient clinic on Long Wharf as of Monday.
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Jun 24, 2024 12:15 pm
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Thank you, water, on Whitney Ave.
Part architectural stunner, part essential public utility, the silver and glass structure of the Regional Water Authority’s water treatment plant was even more impressive up close than seen from Whitney Avenue across the street from the Lake Whitney Dam.
Just as impressive, as it turned out, were the inner workings of that plant and how it provides water to the city and elsewhere — as a group of 30 participants learned on a tour of the facility, guided by Jesse Culbertson, RWA water treatment team lead, as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
Facility boss Jarel Gallman: "Some financial struggles" came to light.
One of the city’s largest in-patient drug-rehab facilities abruptly closed its doors this weekend, with questions lingering about why and what comes next for its employees and recovering substance abusers.
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Jun 17, 2024 3:37 pm
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INSA CEO Peter Gallagher: Cannabis seller and consumer. Don't tell mom.
“It’s a very, very capital-intensive business that’s not without risk,” New Haven’s newest legal pot dealer, INSACEO Peter Gallagher, said about his 500-employee company’s line of work.
There’s the challenge of finding lenders and lawyers and accountants willing to hire out their services in such a hazy market. There’s the prohibition on ferrying legal product across state lines. There’s the ban on billboard and TV advertising. There’s the reliance on cash and debit cards for retail transactions because of credit card companies’ continued aversion to the sector.
And then there’s Section 280E of the federal tax code.
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.
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Jun 11, 2024 9:11 am
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
... 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.
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May 22, 2024 11:52 am
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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.
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.
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.
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Apr 22, 2024 6:02 pm
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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.
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.
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Mar 19, 2024 3:26 pm
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
