Mott, Wheeler Recognized as Health Care Heroes by Hartford Business Journal
The Mott Corporation of Farmington is a 2017 Hartford Business Journal "Health Care Heroes" award winner for their work partnering with Wheeler in communities across Central Connecticut. The recognition was presented at a lunchtime ceremony at the Hartford Marriott Downtown on Thursday, December 7; the Journal's Health Care Heroes award highlights outstanding leaders in the health care industry across a range of categories.
Wheeler Clinic President and CEO Susan Walkama, LCSW, and Wheeler as an organization, were named award finalists at the same award event as well.
A full story about Mott and Wheeler will appear in the December 11th print issue of Hartford Business Journal and online on December 8.
Earlier in November, at a Leadership Greater Hartford breakfast highlighting the partnership (related link), Mott CEO Boris Levin said that working with Wheeler has generated both tangible and intangible business results for the company and its several hundred employees, more than a quarter of whom have directly volunteered at a Wheeler event in the last two years as a “Mott Health Ambassador.” Improved employee satisfaction surveys have been one consistent benchmark, but the intangible benefits are also real and profound. Many of Mott’s volunteer projects have involved addiction services at Wheeler. These have included community forums on opioids, helping family members who have lost loved one to addiction create a “Remembrance Quilt,” or participating in the 2017 CCAR Recovery Walk in Hartford.
With Mott’s support, Wheeler also added a full-time community health outreach worker, Bristol resident Lisbeth Barreto, who uses a peer-based education model to engage families in culturally and linguistically responsive health care services, including those provided at Wheeler’s Family Health & Wellness Centers in New Britain and Bristol. The community health worker model builds on the belief that community members are experts in their own lives and in their own communities, and harnesses local expertise, relationships and trust to improve engagement in primary and preventative care, chronic disease management and patient education and advocacy.
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Wheeler’s 38th Annual Golf Classic, presented by Mutual of America Financial Group for the fifth consecutive year, will take place at The Country Club of Farmington on Wednesday, September 13, 2023. Registration is open, and sponsors, players, and prize donors are welcome.
From Beyblades to Barbies, books, crayons, and everything in between, employees from Farmington-based Mott Corporation are helping to make a joyful holiday for 40 youth in foster care in the Central Connecticut region.
Corporate and individual donations are helping to ensure that children and youth receive holiday gifts this year.
On Wednesday, September 15, more than 130 golfers, sponsors, and volunteers participated in Wheeler’s 36th Annual Golf Classic, presented by Mutual of America Financial Group, at the Country Club of Farmington, raising $52,000 to support individuals and families in care through Wheeler’s Basic Needs Fund.
Our dear partners at the Mott Corporation joined the Connecticut Clearinghouse, other Wheeler staff, the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, and advocates from across the state to place 1,374 white flags along the south walkway of the State Capitol.
Some of the clearest ways that private philanthropy saves lives at Wheeler is at our community health centers.
Employees from the Mott Corporation prepared 1,000 bags of personal care items for Wheeler patients, which will be distributed at our four Family Health & Wellness Centers.
Wheeler staff and the local community commemorated International Overdose Awareness Day, remembering the lives lost to addiction and working toward a better future of recovery.
Wheeler’s Connecticut Clearinghouse hosted a community quilting event on Saturday, March 30 to honor the memory of those lost to substance use disorders, including opioid addiction. This event was part of a statewide Remembrance Quilt initiative—launched in 2017 by the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) —to honor loved ones who have died from substance use disorders or addiction.
Health and wellness is so much more than going to the doctor or getting prescriptions filled. If individuals and families leave the physician’s office and return home to environments that don’t promote or sustain healthy behaviors, treating diseases like asthma, depression or heart disease can become difficult or even impossible. The social determinants of health influence everything else in our health care system.
