News from Wheeler

Watch an engaging conversation by Tina Loarte-Rodriguez, MSN, RN, CIC, CPPS, CPHRM- Vice President of Nursing, Wheeler Health, Vanessa Nazario, MBA- Corporate Director, Chief Diversity Officer, Memorial Healthcare Systems, and Lourdes Negrón-McDaniel, CDP, SHRM-SCP- Director, Inclusion & Culture, Nationwide Children's Hospital. This dynamic conversation and event is moderated by Monique Daley, MS, CDP, Diversity Officer, Wheeler Health.

September 15-October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month, an opportunity for us to continue our Visibility Campaign series and underscore our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This month we will highlight some of our Hispanic staff. Today's spotlight goes to Luis Perez.

September 15-October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month, an opportunity for us to continue our Visibility Campaign series and underscore our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This month we will highlight some of our Hispanic staff. Today's spotlight goes to Veronica Torres, MA.

Teodoro Anderson Diaz, MS, MSW, LCSW, LADC, vice president of family health and wellness center outpatient services, received the Top Latino Leader award at the 2022 National Latino Leadership Conference of the National Diversity Council and the Council for Latino Workplace Equity.

September 15-October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month, an opportunity for us to continue our Visibility Campaign series and underscore our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This month we will highlight some of our Hispanic staff. Today's spotlight goes to Serrita Roper, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC.

"Sometimes a spur-of-the-moment decision you make with your heart puts you on the path you were intended to follow. That was the case for Monique Daley when she was a senior at Weaver High School in Hartford in 1999."

Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15-October 15.

Wheeler received a $5,000 grant from the Bristol Brass General Grant Fund at the Main Street Community Foundation to support its Walk With Me program. The grant will be used to support the work of a peer support specialist and enhance and expand parent/caregiver services for LGBTQIA+ families.

Wheeler is a proud sponsor of the 2022 National Healthcare DEI Conference in Pittsburgh, which featured presentations by experts including Diversity Officer Monique Daley, MS, and Vice President of Nursing Tina Loarte-Rodriguez, MSN, RN, CIC, CPPS, CPHRM.

Kalisha Yopp, LMSW, supervisor, Wheeler’s Community Support for Families (CSF) program, has an unwavering commitment to the New Britain community, and she has dedicated her life and career to serving its most vulnerable families. Read more about Kalisha’s 100 Women of Color recognition at an event in late June.

Wheeler employees share what Juneteenth means to them.

More than 60 community leaders, donors, neighbors, and Wheeler staff and trustees celebrated Wheeler’s newly renovated and expanded Family Health & Wellness Center in Plainville.

April 11-17 is Black Maternal Health Week. Janet Anderson-Ray, MD, one of Wheeler's obstetrician & gynecologist, shares her story.

Today, Wheeler Health has received an evaluation of 95 out of 100 and the designation of “LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Top Performer” in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 15th anniversary edition of the Healthcare Equality Index (HEI), the nation’s foremost benchmarking survey of healthcare facilities on policies and practices dedicated to the equitable treatment and inclusion of their LGBTQ+ patients, visitors, and employees.

Gawdys Grullon, BS, MPA, understands the importance of the services that Wheeler provides daily, through her personal passions and professional work as program director of vocational, education, and training programs at New Opportunities, Inc