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Community Health & Wellness Center — which operates clinics in Torrington, Winsted and North Canaan — and Wheeler Health — which serves patients in Bristol, Hartford, New Britain, Plainville and Waterbury — have signed a letter of intent to evaluate combining into one network.
Despite the challenges facing them on the federal level – such as changing policies and executive orders from the Trump administration – several of the state’s community health centers (CHCs) are being nationally recognized for the services they provide to hundreds of thousands of patients.
Community health centers (CHCs) are an essential source of health care for millions of U.S. women, building on a long history of providing care to under-resourced and higher-risk communities.
Scores of workers at clinics, nonprofits and state agencies help some of Connecticut’s most at-risk residents to stay not only sober, but also fed, safe, housed. But that work’s future has been spun off-kilter in recent months by massive federal budget cuts to programs that serve the poor.
Between 100,000 and 200,000 Connecticut residents could lose health insurance coverage from HUSKY Health, the state’s Medicaid program, over the coming years, severely impacting seniors, healthcare and eldercare facilities, particularly in rural communities.
Eastern Connecticut is about to get an unusual example that sometimes less really is more,…
Hundreds of health care professionals all gathered in Bridgeport Tuesday to talk about how best…
This week of recognition coincides with National Health Center Week, celebrated August 3–9.
A network of 17 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) in Connecticut, including three in the Northwest Corner towns of North Canaan, Winsted and Torrington, will receive a long-awaited funding boost in Medicaid reimbursement rates to the tune of $80 million over the next three years.