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Supt. Tracey at Monday's press conference.
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.
by | Aug 19, 2022 1:50 pm | Comments (5)
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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.
by | Aug 18, 2022 5:58 pm | Comments (14)
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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.
by | Aug 16, 2022 9:02 am | Comments (15)
Site work underway at Orchard and George.
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.
by | Aug 15, 2022 2:32 pm | Comments (38)
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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.
Continue reading ‘"Engagement Center" Eyed For Problem Block’
by | Aug 12, 2022 12:29 pm | Comments (19)
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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.
Continue reading ‘"Trusted Messenger" Guides Ailing Newcomers’
by | Aug 11, 2022 3:48 pm | Comments (9)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Free Covid Test Options Narrow For Uninsured’
by | Aug 9, 2022 1:35 pm | Comments (31)
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Abdussabur: We came through during Covid.
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.
Continue reading ‘NHPS Turns Out Of State For Cleaning Schools’
by | Aug 4, 2022 1:42 pm | Comments (5)
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Arts and crafts hosted by Hamden Youth Services at National Night Out.
Hamden residents spent a night out together, in the name of building a safer community.
Continue reading ‘Community Comes Together For "National Night Out"’
by | Aug 3, 2022 11:55 am | Comments (3)
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.
Continue reading ‘State Launches 3-Year, $35M "Health Horizons" Program’
by | Jul 28, 2022 1:50 pm | Comments (1)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Post-Roe, Planned Parenthood Trains Clinicians To Meet New Demand’
by and | Jul 21, 2022 3:46 pm | Comments (3)
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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.”
Continue reading ‘Blood (Pressure) Talk Comes To Barber's Chair’
by | Jul 21, 2022 12:41 pm | Comments (2)
Two New Haveners have tested positive for the monkeypox virus, and city officials are working to stem the spread.
Continue reading ‘City Issues Monkeypox Alert After First 2 Cases Confirmed’
by | Jul 17, 2022 10:53 am | Comments (1)
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.
Continue reading ‘"Momma’s Love" Sparks Community Health Day at Goffe Street Park’
by | Jul 15, 2022 10:16 am | Comments (4)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Seeking Federal Help, City Readies Effort To Target Asthma’
by | Jul 14, 2022 4:43 pm | Comments (3)
Covid-19 cases have shot back up over the past two weeks, to a level about 11 percent of the peak experienced back in January.
Continue reading ‘Wastewater Reveals Continued Covid Ebb & Flow’
by | Jul 14, 2022 9:15 am | Comments (0)
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Panelists at Wednesday's event.
The new and the old came together Wednesday night to reflect on how healthcare is changing in New Haven.
by | Jul 13, 2022 4:11 pm | Comments (8)
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FHCHC Medical Assistant Ary Vazquez, pictured, said she is late for work several times a month looking for parking.
Affordable housing is critical for low-income people — but so is affordable health care, and easy, walkable, parkable access to it.
Continue reading ‘At Zoning Board, Fair Haven Health Tackles Housing Questions In Parking Plan’
by | Jul 8, 2022 12:06 pm | Comments (7)
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.
Continue reading ‘Cox Case Concern: Officers' Mental Health’
by | Jul 8, 2022 11:45 am | Comments (9)
Sketch of the plan.
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.
by | Jul 6, 2022 4:08 pm | Comments (19)
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She can "do this": Vaccinated Dalia Weinreb (center) with parents Marlene Edelstein and David Weinreb, U.S. Rep. DeLauro, HHS Secretary Becerra.
The top-billed guest was a U.S. cabinet secretary. But six-month-old Fair Havener Dalia Weinreb stole the show — and sent the message.
by | Jul 6, 2022 1:50 pm | Comments (4)
Members of Hamden’s Legislative Council went on record as supporting universal national health insurance — with lowered municipal healthcare costs.
Continue reading ‘Medicare For All Resolution Advances In Hamden’
by | Jul 5, 2022 2:39 pm | Comments (3)
The state Department of Public Health (DPH) reported Tuesday the first locally known case of monkeypox.
by | Jun 28, 2022 9:56 am | Comments (5)
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Clockwise from top left: Oscaima "Patty" Berrios, Kate Liphart, Joel LeChance, and Maria Solomon at Monday's drive.
New blood at the city’s teachers union arranged to draw blood from educators — along with ideas for how to pump new life into the organization and its headquarters.
by | Jun 24, 2022 7:30 pm | Comments (9)
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At Friday's protest downtown.
Hundreds of abortion rights protesters filled the federal courthouse steps downtown to decry the U.S. Supreme Court’s “outrageous” and “unacceptable” overturning of Roe v. Wade.