New community health center opens its doors in Fair Haven
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The new 36,000 square-foot building was a part of a $40 million expansion for the Fair Haven Community Health Center (FHCHC) campus on Grand Avenue. According to a press release from Mayor Justin Elicker, this expansion hopes to meet the growing demand for accessible high-quality care in the community.
The new community space will focus on supporting new learning programs like ESL, job training and digital health literacy, including support for neighborhood nutrition.
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'As you walk through, it not only is high quality space for both physical and behavioral health services, but it also has space for dieticians to meet with folks and do healthy cooking classes,' said Karen Dubois-Walton, president and CEO of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. 'There's space for a food pantry, the ability for people to come here and get food resources they need.'
Officials expect FHCHC to be able to field more than 55,000 visits per year with the addition of this new space.
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