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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.
YNHH leaders and city officials break out their shovels.
Yale New Haven Hospital ceremoniously started construction Wednesday on a long-awaited, $838 million neurosciences center in the Dwight neighborhood, celebrating the forthcoming addition as “transformative” for patients with brain-related illnesses.
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Aug 24, 2022 12:20 pm
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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.
For the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, New Haven public school students will not have to wear face masks when they return to the classroom this academic year.
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Aug 19, 2022 1:50 pm
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Getting swabbed at Murphy's former Day Street Park testing site in May 2020.
Alleged “pandemic profiteer” Steven Murphy is asking a federal judge to allow him to sue Yale for allegedly not paying him over $1.1 million in Covid-test reimbursements.
Hutcherson: I'm "fall guy" for mismanaged health dept.
A third-party investigator found that poor communication by the city’s fired former public health nursing director was largely what led to hundreds of Covid-19 vaccine doses being mishandled by the city Health Department in late 2021 and early 2022.
Sign posted at site of future neuroscience center.
After more than two years of pandemic-induced delays, Yale New Haven Hospital has revived its neuroscience center development plans — with construction vehicles now on site at the southern end of the St. Raphael’s campus, and local building permits pulled for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of medical-center-expansion work soon to come.
Jose (right) on Ferry Street: A new center with private bathrooms "would be nice," much better than going "in the woods."
Harm reduction crew at 229 Grand lot: John Burroughs, John Rivera, Mark Jenkins, Alder Sarah Miller, Jaclin Lucibello, Emme Magliato.
A Fair Haven-based harm reduction coalition has its sights set on turning a vacant Grand Avenue lot into a one-stop “engagement center” for sex workers, day laborers, drug users, and other struggling populations.
They have the backing of local businesses and social service organizations. Now they’re looking for help from City Hall.
Jocelin and community health volunteer José Antonio Armas Alvarez.
Jocelin hobbled through the doors of Unidad Latina en Acción’s Howe Street headquarters with a leg she had nearly lost, a mind spiraling with trauma, and a $64,000 medical bill.
Inside, she found a volunteer who had survived his own journey to New Haven as an undocumented immigrant — and who helped her find and afford the medical care she sorely needed.
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Aug 11, 2022 3:48 pm
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The SalivaDirect Covid testing site on the Green, which serves a handful of uninsured patients each day.
After a decrease in federal funding, New Haven’s largest community health care provider and only hospital system have started to charge uninsured patients $75 for Covid-19 tests.
The Board of Education voted to hire a new cleaning contractor for its schools this coming year, ditching a local Black-owned firm in favor of a Massachusetts-based company.
The state plans to spend $35 million of federal pandemic-relief aid over the next three years on tuition assistance, faculty recruitment, and college-employer partnerships to build up the number of nurses and social workers working in Connecticut.
Lt . Gov Susan Bysiewicz Thursday with Planned Parenthood Health Center Manager Shaquille Pigatt and Chief Medical Officer Nancy Stanwood.
Two clinicians at New Haven’s Planned Parenthood used a ripe papaya last week to practice a procedure they’re now legally allowed to conduct under a new state law: surgical abortions.
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Jul 21, 2022 3:46 pm
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Katherine Tucker screens Dexter Jones for high blood pressure at his eponymous Unisex Barbershop.
Cardiologists and healthcare workers sat in line at Dexter’s — not to get their hair cut, but to work their way into the barbershop talk of the day by speaking truth to a “silent killer.”
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Jul 17, 2022 10:53 am
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Ahndiya Glasper (far left) at the table honoring her late great-grandmother and mother.
Latoya Glasper was planning a community wellness day as part of her new job with the city Health Department. It would be a resource fair, named “Momma’s Love Community Day,” in honor of her late grandmother.
Before Glasper was able to see the event to completion, she underwent a sudden health crisis and died in June. At 42 years old, Glasper left her five children and own mother.
This Saturday, the Health Department put on the event anyway — dedicated to Glasper’s memory.
Deputy Health Director Brooke Logan, left, pitches plan to alders.
New Haven’s alders first voted to declare racism a public health emergency. Now it is looking for federal help to put the city’s money where its mouth is.
Among the many pressing issues raised by the controversy of police mishandling of an arrestee named Richard “Randy” Cox, one has gone largely unspoken: how the stress of the job impacts officers’ mental health.
Fair Haven Community Health Care (FHCHC) has examined its parking-related growing pains, and is now looking for community and government approval for the cure.
