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How Jonysah Kept Her Cool, & Kept Her Patients Cared For

by | Oct 21, 2022 4:11 pm | Comments (4)

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Patient care tech Jonysah Bouknight at Friday's presser.

Jonysah Bouknight was finishing up giving one patient a bed bath” when she heard a loud noise — and quickly learned that another patient was having a stroke.

She took a deep breath, collected herself, and jumped into action, making sure the patients got the care they needed without letting the stress of her job completely overwhelm her.

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City Pumps Lead Poisoning Prevention

by | Oct 20, 2022 12:30 pm | Comments (9)

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Lead-buster Ramos: Ramos: Check out this site for more on prevention.

The city's new "lead case dashboard."

New Haven property owners can receive up to $15,000 per apartment from City Hall to help cover the costs of making their homes lead-safe — while city government watchdogs can now keep track online of how the Health Department is doing in making local houses less toxic for children to live in.

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Newhall, Sylvan "Convenience" Plans Contested

by | Oct 19, 2022 3:09 pm | Comments (7)

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This empty Newhall St. church will remain an empty church, for now.

One planned convenience store won’t be coming to a former Newhallville church any time soon — while another convenience store might be on the way to the ground floor of a Hill house. 

That was the upshot of two contentious Board of Zoning Appeals hearings at which two sets of neighbors pushed back hard on corner stores coming to their blocks.

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At Towers Visit, DeLauro Boosts Drug Price Savings

by | Oct 13, 2022 9:08 am | Comments (2)

Lois Jason fought for unionization at Yale and is now fighting for medical marijuana Medicare coverage.

Only medical marijuana helps Towers resident Lois Jason’s pain after spinal surgery — and that medication costs her $600 every six weeks. 

It’s also not covered by Medicare because the state-permitted substance is still federally illegal.

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Fair Haven Health Expansion Plan Detailed

by | Oct 10, 2022 8:46 am | Comments (8)

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So long, mixed-use building and parking lot; hello, new health center?

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A map of the clinic's current headquarters, planned addition (at the top left), and planned new parking lot.

Fair Haven Community Health Care’s upcoming Grand Avenue expansion came into sharper focus — as a health center representative described plans to knock down an existing corner building that currently houses a pharmacy, a pizzeria, and a handful of apartments, and to construct in its stead a new neighborhood clinic and community space.

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APT Holds Off On Methadone Clinic; Newhallville "Manifests" A Better Future

by | Sep 30, 2022 11:45 am | Comments (17)

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At Thursday evening's event, clockwise from top left: Jeanette Sykes, Kim Harris, Mayor Justin Elicker, Katurah Bryant, State Rep. Robyn Porter, Alder Devin Avshalom-Smith.

Some ideas for the neighborhood generated by a community brainstorm.

The APT Foundation has committed to pause development of a planned methadone clinic at 794 Dixwell Ave. through Dec. 1 as the organization searches for another location — and as Newhallville neighbors piece together a vision for what they want in their neighborhood instead.

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Gather New Haven Brings Out The Wellness In Inaugural Community Fest

by | Sep 19, 2022 2:03 pm | Comments (1)

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Neighbors buy fresh produce at Health and Wellness Festival.

Children do park yoga with Full of Joy Yoga.

Yoga. Farm fresh produce. Starter plants for home gardens. Hula hooping. And Bomba.

That was all on the agenda Sunday at the inaugural Gather New Haven Health and Wellness Festival. 

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Drug Rehab Nonprofit Buys CVS Site

by | Sep 14, 2022 4:09 pm | Comments (26)

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The former CVS site at 215 Whalley. Future home of MCCA outpatient clinic.

CFO Connan: Will "better serve" community.

A Danbury-based addiction-treatment nonprofit plans to move its local outpatient clinic to the former CVS site at Whalley Avenue and Orchard Street, after purchasing that recently shuttered ex-pharmacy property for $2.5 million.

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Hill Health Forms Foundation To Keep Community Care Flowing

by | Sep 12, 2022 9:32 am | Comments (0)

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Foundation-setters LindyLee Gold and Michael Taylor.

One of New Haven’s grassroots community health care success stories, the Cornell Scott Hill Health Center, has formed a new foundation — in order to set a new foundation to continue keeping New Haveners healthy for decades to come.

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Fair Haven Health Eyes Grand Expansion

by | Sep 1, 2022 8:35 am | Comments (6)

Site of proposed new Fair Haven Health building.

Fair Haven Community Health Care plans to build a new medical building focused on treating behavioral health issues and addressing social determinants of health” at the corner of Grand Avenue and James Street, next door to the community health center’s current headquarters and main clinic. 

If suggestions of Fair Haven neighbors come to fruition, the new building will be brightly colored, filled with plants, and adorned with local art reflecting Latino cultures.

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Fades & Friendship Converge On Green

by | Aug 24, 2022 12:20 pm | Comments (1)

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Erick Santiago cuts Alberto Reyes' hair on the Green Tuesday.

I’m tired of being outside,” said Jazel Brown as he waited in line for a haircut. He’d had a stressful few weeks of missing medication, sleeping in hospital beds, and witnessing a violent attack near the downtown church steps where he typically sleeps.

In the middle of a hard month, Brown stumbled across a glimmer of kindness in Erick Santiago’s weekly volunteer barbershop in the center of the New Haven Green — where a One-Stop Pop Up” provided him with a fresh cut, a place to charge his phone, a medical check-up, and the possible beginnings of a new friendship.

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