News from Wheeler

Wheeler’s evolution of integrating health care over the last 20 years has rapidly advanced, with behavioral health experts like Adam Harrison, Psy.D. working side-by-side with primary care and dental practitioners, community health workers, and many others, in one setting, working as one team, with a full range of resources for patients.

Wheeler's Health & Wellness Center team will have seven walk-in clinics available to assist with SNAP, SAGA, TANF, HUSKY and Access Healthcare.

The Wheeler Family Health & Wellness Center, a community health center at 43 Woodland Street in Hartford, and Genoa Healthcare marked the opening of a full-service, on-site pharmacy with a ribbon-cutting event on April 2.

Teodoro Anderson Diaz, LCSW, LADC, a behavioral health care leader and practitioner, has joined Wheeler as vice president of Adult Outpatient Services.

A free Spring Health Screening Camp provided by The Greater Hartford Sathya Sai Center in collaboration with Grace Lutheran Church and Wheeler Clinic will take place on Saturday, April 27 from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Grace Lutheran Church, 46 Woodland Street, Hartford.

E. Cinqué Barlow has joined the Wheeler Family Health & Wellness Center as a specialist for the Ryan White Case Management Program.

The Connecticut Health Foundation today released a new report that highlights the importance of community health workers in helping to improve health outcomes, reduce costs and reduce health disparities.

Learn more about the benefits of Zumba, offered to patients at Wheeler's Family Health & Wellness Center, Hartford.

Wheeler received a $465,000 grant to support structural enhancements to its Family Health & Wellness Center at the 43 Woodland Street, Hartford campus and better serve local individuals and families.

Patients at Wheeler’s Family Health & Wellness Center at 43 Woodland Street, Hartford have easy, on-site access to their medications and related assistance, thanks to the opening of a Genoa Healthcare full-service pharmacy at the community health center.

Wheeler’s Care Coordination teams in New Britain and Hartford were awarded a one-year grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to assist and treat families who fled to Connecticut from Puerto Rico after the devastation of Hurricane Maria.

Wheeler's toddler nutrition program provides parents and families with free hands-on lessons and demonstrations for how healthy eating improves overall wellness and child development.

The Boston Red Sox Foundation is philanthropically supporting programs for children and adolescents living in Wheeler’s community-based congregate care programs.

When James left prison in early 2018, he found a world that he didn’t recognize in many ways. There was new technology, new ways of communicating, new challenges. One major challenge remained, however, and that was addressing many of the factors that led him to prison to begin with, including 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.