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Can $500 each month, no strings attached, improve health outcomes for people recently incarcerated?
Yale is studying whether giving direct cash assistance to recently incarcerated people in New Haven and Bridgeport improves their health outcomes.
Health inequities persist in Connecticut: 14,000 excess deaths among Black population
A new report found that inequities resulted in 14,000 excess deaths among CT’s Black population compared to its white demographic.
CT United Way works to expand 988 crisis line as calls surge
A year after the national 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline was launched, calls have surged in Connecticut and across the country.
More than 45,000 people lost Medicaid coverage in CT in April and May
Two months after the end of a policy that allowed people to stay on Medicaid regardless of income, 46,140 people in CT lost coverage.
Lawmakers looking into CT’s overcrowded emergency rooms
A bill calls for a working group to be convened by July to advise the DPH commissioner regarding methods to alleviate ER crowding.
With more patients traveling to New England for abortions, Connecticut looks to expand access
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, CT opened an information hotline, enacted new legal protections, and increased the number of providers.
Grieving family members plead for CT legislators to pass aid in dying bill
The latest version of the bill addresses legal concerns raised by the Judiciary Committee last year to minimize the risk of misuse.
Violence intervention specialists hired at Hartford hospitals hope to break cycles of violence
People with lived experience of gun violence are aiming to stop the cycle of trauma by intervening at the bedside of gunshot victims.
CT clinic expanding primary care access for people recently released from prison
The Transitions Clinic Network, which provides health care to people recently released from prison, is expanding to New London and Waterbury.
Yale study combining opioid use disorder treatment with OB-GYN care offers hope to pregnant women struggling with addiction
When Amanda, 28, found out that she was pregnant with her second child, she was in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and struggling with opioid use disorder.