News from Wheeler

Wheeler’s Sabrina Trocchi, PhD, MPA, president and chief executive officer, talked recently with MetroHartford Alliance about the components of innovative healthcare and Wheeler’s delivery of a broad array of person-centered programs and services to thousands of individuals and families across Connecticut annually.

Wheeler's community health center at 43 Woodland Street in Hartford is now open on Saturdays from 9 am to 1 pm as well, providing walk-in and scheduled care for cold and flu symptoms, aches and pains, minor cuts and bruises, behavioral health, addiction services, and more!

Every day. Every patient. Everything you need. With everything we've got.

"What gets me into work every day is our team."

Hope that today will be better than yesterday. Hope that you can make things right.

Almost one in five Americans lives with chronic pain, often so great that it affects their daily life. At the same time, the ongoing opioid crisis fuels discussions of the role that pain medications play in the epidemic and new examinations of alternative ways to treat pain. Wheeler is at the forefront, with specially trained staff who integrate behavioral health therapies and alternative approaches into plans of care at the Family Health & Wellness Center in Hartford.

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.

Heather Clinger, MPH, CPS, program manager, Wheeler’s Connecticut Center for Prevention, Wellness and Recovery, Wheeler, was named president of Southington’s Town-wide Effort to Promote Success (STEPS) Advisory Board for the 2019-2020 fiscal year.

Wheeler has received $122,000 in federal awards for quality care, including special recognition as the only health center in Connecticut ranked in the top two percent of all centers nationally that improved quality of care between 2017 and 2018 in one or more measures that promote behavioral health, diabetes health, and heart health.

In observance of International Overdose Awareness Day, Wheeler’s Connecticut Clearinghouse at 334 Farmington Avenue will host a community Remembrance Quilt workshop event on Saturday, August 31 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. during which the memory of those lost to substance use disorders, including opioid addiction, will be honored.

Wheeler’s Dr. Michael P. Twist, psychiatric medical director, was featured was part of Access Health CT’s series on health and the LGBTQ community. The series features perspectives on the state of health for the LGBTQ population in Connecticut, available services, barriers to care, and strategies for effectiveness.

Dr. Rebecca Eleck-Bruce, primary care medical director, Wheeler, is among the Hartford Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty class this year.

Wheeler and Connecticut's innovative Mobile Crisis Program are featured in a July 10, 2019 article in US News & World Report. If you or your family are experiencing a mental health crisis, call 211.

Judith A. Stonger, MA, CPS, vice president of Prevention, Wellness and Recovery, Wheeler Clinic/Connecticut Clearinghouse, will discuss “Addiction and Mental Health Disorders: Why They Often Co-Exist” on July 11 at 6 p.m. in Eno Memorial Hall, 754 Hopmeadow Street, Simsbury.

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