by | Nov 17, 2022 12:19 pm | Comments (3)
Daycare approved for 97 Whitney Ave.
An Orange-based Hebrew day school is one big step closer to opening a new childcare center at the vacant site of a former private school on Whitney Avenue, thanks to a unanimous vote of support by city zoners.
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by | Nov 16, 2022 3:04 pm | Comments (1)
Dr. Ece Tek, Chief Medical Officer, Mental Health and Addiction Services, Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center; LindyLee Gold’s grandson Ari Kroop; Michael Taylor, CEO of Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center; LindyLee Gold, President of the Amour Propre Fund and recently named Chair of the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center Foundation board; and local attorney Keith Bradoc Gallant, who assists with the Amour Propre Fund.
Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center has received the largest donation in its 55-year- history, a $1 million infusion that will support a wellness center within a new facility for women in recovery from addiction.
Continue reading ‘Record Donation Supports Hill Health Center For Women In Recovery’
by | Nov 15, 2022 9:16 am | Comments (22)
Mark Colville serves a hungry passerby named Michelle his homemade pasta and meatballs during a recent meeting of the Unhoused Activist Community Team at 266 State St.
Antar Adams: Done searching for housing. “All the low-income spots are taken."
A year after a tentative plan to convert a Long Wharf hotel into housing for the homeless fell apart, the city is considering a second attempt to invest federal pandemic-relief dollars towards stable long-term shelter for the unhoused.
Meanwhile, those with nowhere to sleep but the streets, bracing for the start of winter, are upping their demands on local government for safe places to stay, public bathrooms and city-funded storage units.
Continue reading ‘Homeless Hotel Plan Scrapped. What's Next?’
by | Nov 3, 2022 3:18 pm | Comments (3)
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83, 85, and 87 Woolsey (the three houses pictured from right to left): All slated for demolition to make way for a new larger parking lot.
A Fair Haven community health center won permission to knock down three houses and build a larger surface parking lot — as it moves forward with a plan to create an expanded neighborhood-anchoring medical campus.
Continue reading ‘Health Center's Demolition, Parking Plan OKd’
by | Nov 3, 2022 1:45 pm | Comments (6)
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Green Party gubernatorial candidate Michelle Bicking at WNHH FM.
Get ready to ride the rails from Sprague to New Haven in half an hour — aboard the Michelle Bicking Express.
Continue reading ‘Guv Candidate Boosts Transit, Single-Payer’
by | Nov 3, 2022 11:55 am | Comments (0)
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The former CVS building and future MCCA treatment center on Whalley.
New Haven residents make up three-quarters of the patients served by a substance use disorder treatment center that currently operates out of a rented Whalley Avenue office building — and that plans on moving to the former CVS site at the corner of Whalley and Orchard.
Continue reading ‘Drug Rehab Clinic Serves Mostly Local Patients’
by | Nov 1, 2022 1:42 pm | Comments (19)
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COMPASS crew members Yichu Xu and Nanette Campbell hear out Ollie Cooper, who's homeless, and share information about possible housing.
Key players at crisis-team launch: Mayor Justin Elicker (at left) and U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who secured $2 million, in top photo; city resilience director Carlos Sosa-Lombardo (center); community services chief Mehlul Dalal.
Social worker Yichu Xu and “peer recovery specialist” Nanette Campbell reported for duty Tuesday to start helping cops and firefighters deal with emergency calls — and pilot a new way of dealing with people in crisis.
by | Nov 1, 2022 11:11 am | Comments (2)
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At Monday's trunk-or-treat on Ashmun St.
Baby Savannah practices candy crawling her own way Monday night.
Little mermaids, Minions and monsters gathered outside of the Connecticut Violence Intervention Program’s headquarters Monday — to take turns “trunk or treating” within a web of safety-minded community members and their cars.
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by | Oct 25, 2022 3:22 pm | Comments (21)
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WEB CMT Chair Rebecca Cramer (left), MCCA's Scott Nelson (right) at Monday evening's meeting.
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Former pharmacy at 215 Whalley.
The leaders of a Danbury-based addiction-treatment nonprofit promised to keep preaching abstinence — and not to branch out into prescribing methadone — as they prepare to move their local outpatient clinic into the former CVS site at Whalley Avenue and Orchard Street.
Continue reading ‘"Abstinence," Not Methadone, Set For CVS Site’
by | Oct 25, 2022 1:10 pm | Comments (5)
Fair Haven Health's parking lot plans.
A health center’s plan to rezone a Fair Haven block to allow for more parking, and eventually a larger medical campus, moved ahead — despite city staff’s initial recommendation of denial.
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.
Continue reading ‘How Jonysah Kept Her Cool, & Kept Her Patients Cared For’
by | Oct 21, 2022 2:15 pm | Comments (27)
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Amistad's Na’karr, Kailey and Michael: Don’t punish students who use cannabis to cope.
Should showing up stoned to school mean you should be sent by ambulance to the hospital?
A Dixwell Avenue charter school said yes.
Some Amistad school students aren’t so sure.
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Newhall, Sylvan "Convenience" Plans Contested’
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.
Continue reading ‘At Towers Visit, DeLauro Boosts Drug Price Savings’
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.
Continue reading ‘Fair Haven Health Expansion Plan Detailed’
by | Oct 7, 2022 9:34 am | Comments (5)
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Rick Altice: As overdoses rise, patients need safe equipment.
A Yale harm reduction-focused healthcare team has its sights set on installing a trio of vending machines around town that would dispense not candy bars and soda, but clean syringes, safe injection kits, and overdose reversal medication.
by | Oct 6, 2022 1:39 pm | Comments (6)
The consolidation of Connecticut health care continued with the announcement Thursday that Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) has reached a deal to take over three more hospitals in the state.
by | Oct 4, 2022 3:16 pm | Comments (20)
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Shafiq Abdussabur.
(Opinion) Let’s take a deeper look at gun violence in New Haven. A look beyond the retroactive approach of throwing resources to violence-plagued communities after the fact.
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by | Oct 4, 2022 1:21 pm | Comments (3)
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Alexis Evans at work at Raw Juicescape.
Alexis Evans was ready for the start of flu season with a natural weapon. Four natural weapons.
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.
Continue reading ‘APT Holds Off On Methadone Clinic; Newhallville "Manifests" A Better Future’
by | Sep 29, 2022 5:16 pm | Comments (2)
Approximately 1,000 students may be turned away from school Friday if families don’t meet the submission deadline for their students’ health immunization forms this year.
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by | Sep 28, 2022 9:26 am | Comments (22)
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Capt. Dell, who led probe into deaths of Maggie and Buttons.
A police captain has been assigned to supervise New Haven’s animal shelter — and remind the city’s animal control officer the difference between a dead cat and a live one.
by | Sep 23, 2022 9:00 am | Comments (4)
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At Thursday's groundbreaking on Minor St.
A community of healthcare partners and political backers gathered in the Hill to celebrate the groundbreaking of Cornell Scott Hill Health Center’s new hub for behavioral health and substance abuse services.
by | Sep 21, 2022 4:46 pm | Comments (29)
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YNHH VP Vin Petrini: Large deficits led to large layoffs.
Yale New Haven Health laid off 72 hospital managers Wednesday and eliminated another 83 vacant administrative positions in a system-wide “restructuring” done in the face of rising costs and an expected $300 million deficit.