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  1. Health care workers race to learn about immigration rights, and more in this week’s roundup

    Friday, Feb 28, 2025

    CT among states that sat on opioid settlement funds, efforts to address nursing shortage in CT, rural patients drive long distances for surgery, health care workers race to learn about immigration law in response to ICE raids, and undocumented immigrants describe the impacts of not having health coverage.

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  2. Unstable housing impacts children’s health for years, and more in this week’s roundup

    Friday, Jul 12, 2024

    Young children who don’t have stable housing report worse health later in life, the Medicare Cliff leading to higher costs and worse health outcomes for lower-income people, HUSKY insurance expansion to children in CT, racial disparities in older adult’s mental health, and U.S.’s higher death rate for children.

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  3. A big study seeks to solve cancer mystery affecting Black women, and more in this week’s roundup

    Friday, May 10, 2024

    A new study seeks to uncover cancer mysteries; troubling new data on child deaths; cuts looming for Medicaid in Connecticut; more checkboxes coming for AAPI ethnicities; and potential improvements in access to care for those released from incarceration.

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  4. HUSKY 4 Immigrants: Expanding health coverage for immigrants benefits everyone

    Wednesday, Mar 13, 2024

    Efforts in Connecticut to expand coverage to Connecticut’s undocumented residents have been spearheaded by HUSKY 4 Immigrants, a coalition of nearly two dozen state and local organizations.

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  5. Grants will support advocacy for coverage expansion

    Thursday, Oct 19, 2023

    Grants from the Connecticut Health Foundation will support advocacy efforts to expand health care coverage to more immigrants and to ensure that those who are eligible can get covered.

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  6. NEW REPORT: Georgetown University recommends steps to improve the health of CT’s children

    Wednesday, Jan 02, 2019

    HARTFORD, Conn. (Jan. 2, 2019) – Connecticut outperforms many states on key measures of children’s health care access and quality, but lags behind…

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  7. NEW REPORT: Georgetown University Center for Children and Families finds Medicaid’s impact goes beyond health care

    Tuesday, Aug 21, 2018

    HARTFORD, Conn. (August 21, 2018) – Medicaid is best known as a health insurance program that provides coverage to low-income Connecticut residents,…

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  8. NEW BRIEF: Impact of Reducing Eligibility for HUSKY Parents from 155% of FPL to 138% of FPL

    Wednesday, Mar 01, 2017

    Impact of Reducing Eligibility for HUSKY Parents from 155% of FPL to 138% of FPL
    Potential Impact of Governor’s Budget Proposal on HUSKY…

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  9. Medicaid Eligibility Among Cuts in Governor’s Budget Proposal

    Wednesday, Feb 08, 2017

    HARTFORD, CT (February 8, 2017) – Today Patricia Baker, President & CEO of the Connecticut Health Foundation, issued the following statement in…

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  10. New Haven Community Health Center Awarded Technology Grant to Integrate Medical and Dental Care

    Tuesday, Mar 29, 2016

    Foundation Awards Over $675,000 to Nonprofits to Improve Health in Connecticut

    HARTFORD, CT –  Fair Haven Community Health Center (FHCHC), a…

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