News from Wheeler

More than 150 golfers, supporters, volunteers, and friends took part in Wheeler’s 34th Annual Golf Classic presented by Mutual of America at the Country Club of Farmington on June 10—an event that raised nearly $60,000 and crossed the $1.2-million fundraising mark since its inception in 1986.

"People are dying. And I don't want to be a statistic."

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

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.

Congratulations to our Chief Financial Officer Athena Dellas, MBA, for her recognition on June 9 at the YWCA New Britain Women in Leadership Luncheon! More than 600 women have been celebrated for their outstanding accomplishments and contributions in the Greater New Britain community since 1985.

The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), in partnership with local organizations and communities, will kick off National Prevention Week 2019 with a forum on May 13 at 5 p.m. at the New Britain Museum of American Art located at 56 Lexington Street in New Britain.

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.

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.

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.

The only community health center in Connecticut with both primary medical care and behavioral health home certifications, Wheeler is also one of five organizations nationally to earn four specific accreditations and certifications from the nation’s oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body for providing quality, coordinated, patient-centered health care.

Amanda S. Grasso, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, has joined Wheeler’s Health & Wellness Center (HWC), offering services through HWC facilities in New Britain.

Wheeler’s new Basic Needs Fund, addresses a range of environmental and social factors that interfere with clients’ health and well-being, that are not addressed by other means of funding.