Community Health Center, Inc.

Join us for a FREE Health and Wellness Fair on Tuesday, August 6, 10AM-1PM at our Meriden health center, 134 State Street! Our team will be on-site offering health screenings, confidential HIV and Hepatitis C testing, information about important community resources, and more! Stop by!

For more information, contact Sumaiya Sabnam at 860-347-6971 Ext. 3121 or at [email protected]. See you there!

Looking for FREE summer activities? 🌞🎶🍦🎨 Join us for a family-friendly and fun-filled community health fair on Wednesday, August 7, 11AM-2PM at our Middletown health center, 675 Main Street.

Visitors will find important health and community resources, vendors, music, ice cream, arts and crafts, and more! No pre-registration is required. Stop by and enjoy!

Looking for FREE summer activities? 🌞🎶🍦🎨 Join us for a family-friendly and fun-filled community health fair on Monday, August 5, 11AM-2PM at our New Britain health center, 85 Lafayette Street.

Visitors will find important health and community resources, vendors, music, ice cream, arts and crafts, and more! No pre-registration is required. Stop by and enjoy!

Something sealy to start your week 🌞🌊 CHC Executive Assistant to the Clinical Chiefs Cassie Yaiser helped Mystic Aquarium release four rehabilitated seals into Long Island Sound at Hammonasset Beach in Madison last week!

Cassie began volunteering as a first responder with the Animal Rescue Program (ARP) at Mystic Aquarium in 2023, helping with rescues, rehabilitation, and releases of sick, injured, and stranded marine animals along 1,000 miles of the Northeastern coastline through CT, RI, Fishers Island, and NY. In 2024, Cassie started volunteering in the rescue clinic within the aquarium itself where she helps with the rehabilitation portion more intensely.

Learn more about the rehabilitation and release of Sealy Dean, Tortellini, Cavatelli, and Orecchietti at an event that drew a crowd of almost 1,000 visitors, in this CT Insider story: bit.ly/seal-release.

Congrats Cassie and team! 👏 👏 👏 Learn more about Mystic's ARP, here: bit.ly/mystic-arp.

COVID-19 levels are on the rise in the U.S. Protect yourself and others:

🔸 Stay up to date with COVID vaccinations
🔸 Practice good hygiene
🔸 Take steps for cleaner air
When you’re sick:
🔸 Use precautions to prevent spread
🔸 Seek health care for testing and treatment

Consider additional prevention strategies, especially while traveling. Learn more from the CDC, here: bit.ly/3YcWO94.

POSTPONED: The health and wellness fair at our health center, scheduled to take place today, Tuesday, July 23, has been postponed. Stay tuned for more information about a new date. Thank you for your understanding.

Help a new mom in need! Did you know new and loving under-resourced mothers often face the threat of DCF intervention before even leaving the hospital simply because they struggle to afford a new car seat?

Make the first steps into motherhood a joyful journey by purchasing a new car seat or gift card towards a new car seat through our CHC Amazon wish list today: chc1.co/49QpR4e 🤗

: One of the effects of untreated or unmanaged is diabetic eye disease or Diabetic Retinopathy. Have questions? Learn more about diabetic eye health in this blog: chc1.co/3ycuoRs.

Register to Vote at CT Pediatrics at CHC on Thursday July 18th. A representative from the Registrar of Voters of the City of Hartford will be present to help community members register. Stop by anytime between 9 AM-12 PM. Make sure your voice is heard!

CT Department of Public Health is reporting an increase in new Mpox cases in 2024, more than doubling cases seen in 2023.

Medical Director of the Center for Key Populations at Community Health Center, Inc., Dr. Marwan Haddad, says it's "not a surprise" to see mpox cases on the rise. The majority of the cases currently are in people who have been under-vaccinated."

Read more from Dr. Haddad: https://chc1.co/4eZJbQk (may require subscription)

Join us for a FREE Health and Wellness Fair on Tuesday, July 23rd, 10AM-1PM at our Meriden health center! Our team will be on-site offering confidential HIV and Hepatitis C testing, information about important community resources, and more! Stop by!

For more information, contact Sumaiya Sabnam at 860-347-6971 Ext. 3121 or at [email protected]. See you there!

Happy Independence Day! Wishing you a safe and memorable celebration!

Quest Diagnostics at our Waterbury health center will be closed today, Tuesday, July 2. Patients in need of lab services may visit Quest at 1389 West Main St. in Waterbury before 5PM.

Join us for a FREE Health and Wellness Fair on Tuesday, July 23rd, 10AM-1PM at our Meriden health center! Our team will be on-site offering confidential HIV and Hepatitis C testing, information about important community resources, and more! Stop by!

For more information, contact Sumaiya Sabnam at 860-347-6971 Ext. 3121 or at [email protected]. See you there!

Our amazing staff continue to show their PRIDE and celebrate our LGBTQIA+ community as we close out ! Check out some photos! 👇

Thank you to our staff for leading community outreach efforts at local Pride events and to those who have shown their support at work and beyond. A special shoutout to our Center for Key Populations team! 🤗

We're proud to care for all! Happy Pride! 🌈

Quest Diagnostics at our New Britain health center will be closed tomorrow, Saturday, June 29 and will have reduced hours, 8AM-12PM, next week, July 1-5. *Closed on 7/4. Patients in need of lab services outside of these hours may visit Quest at 1 Grove St. in New Britain.

It was a pleasure hosting the Middles*x County CT NAACP's Ida M. Masselli Scholarship award ceremony at our Middletown health center Wednesday night. Eight outstanding students were awarded scholarships to advance their education.

The Ida M. Masselli Scholarship Fund exists to support the educational aspirations of young people living in the fifteen towns of Middles*x County, Connecticut and was established by CHC Founder, President & CEO Mark Masselli in honor of his late mother, Ida Masselli.

Congratulations to those awarded!

REMINDER: All CHC locations will be closed on Thursday, July 4 in observance of Independence Day. Normal business hours will resume on July 5.

Know Your Status! Stop by New Brite Plaza in New Britain this Thursday, June 27, 10AM-3:30PM, during National HIV Testing Day! Our Center for Key Populations will be there offering FREE:

🔸Confidential HIV testing & counseling
🔸Safer s*x products
🔸Info about PrEP
🔸Narcan & training

Individuals who get tested will receive a $10 Subway gift card. *While supplies lasts.

Can't make it? Visit centerforkeypopulations.com to learn more about our HIV primary care. Follow CKP on Instagram !

We're proud to care for all! ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 Our Center for Key Populations team has been busy attending celebrations across the state, offering visitors free HIV and Hepatitis C testing, health info and more! Check out some pics👇from Enfield Pride and the East Hampton Pride Stroll! See you all in Waterbury this Saturday!

Learn more about our LGBTQIA+ health services at centerforkeypopulations.com and follow CKP on Instagram !

This month, our diaper banks in Meriden and Stamford served 130 families in need, providing free baby diapers! Our staff were excited to connect with families in two great communities, show them support and ease the burden of caring for a baby. Check out the pics! 👇

🌈 Join our Center for Key Populations at the East Hampton Pride Stroll this Saturday, June 22! Festivities begin at 10AM in the Village Center.

Find our CKP team under the rainbow tent and in our mobile health unit. We’ll be offering children's activities, important health info and freebies! Have a health question? Stop by and ask one of our kind and knowledgeable staff members.

For event info, visit easthamptonpride.com. To learn more about our LGBTQIA+ health services, visit centerforkeypopulations.com.

June 19, 1865, two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be set free. Juneteenth (short for June Nineteenth) honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. Juneteenth was declared a federal holiday on June 17, 2021.

Join our Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Office in celebrating this important hallmark in American History, representing the triumph and perseverance of African Americans.

Learn more about the historical legacy of Juneteenth from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, here: bit.ly/3zekVcQ.

As part of the Moses/Weitzman Health System, we’re pleased to announce this year’s College Scholarship Program winners! The MWHS College Scholarship Program is aimed at supporting children of caregivers working full-time at MWHS with the cost of college. Twenty $1,000 scholarships were awarded for the 2024-2025 academic year. Winners were chosen at random in a live drawing on June 17.

Congratulations to all the students who entered! We look forward to seeing all that you accomplish in college, in your careers and beyond!

Quest Diagnostics at our New Britain health center will have reduced hours (8AM-1PM) this week, June 17-21. Patients in need of lab services outside of these hours may visit Quest at 1 Grove St. in New Britain, 7AM-5PM.