News from Wheeler

About 100 state and local leaders, board members, donors, employees, and friends gathered at a groundbreaking ceremony for Wheeler’s planned 46,000-square foot community health center and administrative headquarters at One Hope Street in downtown Bristol on Thursday, September 29th.

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.

"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."

Tied for the most awards in the state, Wheeler received six out of eight Community Health Quality Recognition (CHQR) badges from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) following an annual Uniform Data System (UDS) review for 2021.

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.

Wheeler’s Community Support for Families (CSF) program marked its 10th birthday in recently, and there was a lot for this 29-member team to celebrate. Read more.

Wheeler has earned Behavioral Health Care reaccreditation from The Joint Commission, the nation’s oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body for providing quality, coordinated, patient-centered health care.

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

Wheeler's Katie Kirch, LCSW, ICGC-II, BACC, clinical supervisor, Bettor Choice Gambling Treatment Program, appeared on the Fox61 Morning Show today to discuss Problem Gambling Awareness Month and resources for individuals and loved ones struggling with this issue.

Trustee Mary Rodier, CPA, who will become Wheeler’s next chair of the Board of Trustees in September, sees an organization poised to do even greater things in the years ahead.

Helping to anchor the downtown Bristol Centre Square development with professional jobs and accessible health care for the entire community, Wheeler Health will move forward with a plan to purchase an approximate 1.3-acre lot between North Main and Hope streets, with the intent to build an approximately 35,000-square foot community health center and administrative headquarters, opening in 2023.

We listened to concerns, pursued alternatives, and compromised. Economic and Community Development approved unanimously. But we still need City Council support on Tuesday, February 8.

Now more than ever, students and educators need support. Wheeler can help in several ways, including through a model called Collaborative Learning Program (CLP). Wheeler's Jon Oddo, MS, CAGS, vice president/principal, Northwest Village School, explains.

Wheeler’s latest Giving from the Heart newsletter is available for download and features stories about our vision for health care in Bristol, holiday giving, our unique partnership with Delta Dental of New Jersey Foundation and Harc., Inc, generous, innovative corporate giving through Voya Financial, and more.