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Abortion bans linked to preventable deaths, and more in this week’s roundup
Friday, Sep 20, 2024
Patients in Florida fearful of hospitals required to ask immigration status, crack down on homelessness undercutting health care efforts, preventable deaths in a state with an abortion ban, a historic drop in fetal deaths, and a perspective piece on the effects of racial trauma.
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Statement on U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion
Friday, Jun 24, 2022
Changes that make it more difficult for people to obtain reproductive health care only stand to worsen these devastating inequities. Today’s ruling is likely to impose particularly harsh burdens on those who already face the biggest challenges to accessing needed health care.
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The Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion is a health equity issue
Friday, Jun 24, 2022
Women’s health, well-being, and futures are at stake. Abortion is a safe medical procedure and, like all health care choices, is one that is best made by a woman and her provider. This Supreme Court decision will play a major structural force in exacerbating health inequity for women.
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Meeting moms where they are: A community health worker brings mental health to the grocery store
Friday, May 10, 2019
Kimberly Streater in the MOMS Partnership hub at Stop & Shop in New Haven, where she…
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Women’s Health Center at Saint Francis: Making sure oral health is part of prenatal care
Monday, Jun 18, 2018
It was 11 a.m. on Christmas Eve when the woman came to see Dr. Walter Trymbulak. She was there for her regular prenatal visit, but she also had a more…
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Women’s Health Center at Saint Francis: Bringing mental health care into the prenatal clinic
Friday, Sep 22, 2017
Women are more likely to suffer from depression and other mental health issues while they are pregnant. Left untreated, those conditions can have dire…
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Wheeler Clinic: Data driven health care
Thursday, Aug 17, 2017
In five decades of providing behavioral health services, Wheeler Clinic has served hundreds of thousands of Connecticut residents, many with serious…
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What’s at stake: The impact of the Affordable Care Act in Connecticut, by the numbers
Tuesday, Jun 27, 2017
As lawmakers debate major changes to the federal health law, it is important to understand what’s at stake in Connecticut. The Connecticut…
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Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Awarded Grant to Explore Primary Care Integration at Hartford North End Center
Monday, Dec 19, 2016
Foundation Awards Over $889,000 to Nonprofits to Improve Health in Connecticut
HARTFORD, CT – The Connecticut Health Foundation (CT Health)…
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