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Community Health & Wellness Center’s North Canaan location recently was featured on WFSB’s Good Day CT.

Fair Haven Community Health Care, along with community, local, and state partners, celebrated a ribbon-cutting…

Decision follows budget deal that secured additional $26.4M for CT community health centers over the…

If patients lose their insurance, Community Health Centers and other providers could be forced to make difficult decisions.

State officials are poised to legally exceed Connecticut’s spending cap for the first time in nearly two decades to avert a crisis in paying Medicaid bills — and to pave the way for a new two-year budget.

HUSKY Medicaid checks won’t go out to thousands of doctors next week, unless Connecticut lawmakers plug a $300 million deficit by this coming Wednesday.

A roundtable discussion on the impact of reductions in federal funding for public health generated plenty of examples Friday.
Connecticut has already seen nearly $150 million in federal public health grants terminated by the Trump administration, and the loss of the funding is already being felt across the state.

Read this opinion piece from UCFS Board Chair and longtime patient Deb Kievitz about the funding crisis for CT’s Community Health Centers.

Connecticut’s Community Health Centers (CHCs) provide essential health care to 440,000 people in this
state, with a mission rooted in access to high quality care for all. Patients are seen regardless of ability to
pay, and a majority rely on HUSKY/Medicaid for insurance. However, Connecticut’s CHCs are in a
financial crisis due to insufficient Medicaid reimbursement.