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New Haven Independent
Construction Starts On New Vlock Home
July 9, 2018
In the thick of a heat wave, the Yale School of Architecture first-years came together this week to start building a two-story home on 41-43 Button St. for a homeless family and a single renter.
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New Haven Register
Lamont looks at homeless needs
July 5, 2018
Ned Lamont, the Democratic Party’s candidate for governor, visited the Columbus House homeless shelter Tuesday to hear about the experiences and needs of people living or working there.
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New Haven Register
Yale New Haven Hospital’s work with community brings $100,000 prize
May 28, 2018
A hospital, in order to truly meet its patients’ and employees’ needs, has to do more than provide health care.
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GlobeNewswire
Watson Provides Small Appliances to Columbus House for Formerly Homeless
May 24, 2018
Watson, Inc. recently donated 25 small appliances to Columbus House, to be included in their Welcome Kit initiative, which provides basic household necessities to those moving out of homelessness and into permanent homes.
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The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University
Study shows that medical respite care for patients experiencing homelessness is cost-effective for hospitals
May 22, 2018
A new study by Professor Donald Shepard and Dan Shetler in The Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved demonstrates a powerful business case for providing medical respite care to hospitalized patients experiencing homelessness. In the article, titled “Medical Respite for People Experiencing Homelessness: Financial Impacts with Alternative Levels of Medicaid Coverage,” Shetler and Shepard examined two hospital case studies: St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Conn. (a Medicaid-expansion state) and Holy Cross Hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (a non-Medicaid-expansion state).
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New Haven Register
Annual count shows slight decline in Connecticut homelessness
May 18, 2018
When volunteers walked city streets and visited shelters on an unseasonably warm winter night early this year, they found two more homeless people than last year, bucking a downward trend statewide.
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New Haven Independent
Columbus House Goes Solar
April 13, 2018
A crane is extended and solar panels are busily being installed just in time for spring at Columbus House.
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Columbus House
Columbus House Breaks Ground at Connecticut Valley Hospital
April 9, 2018
Columbus House is excited to begin the restoration and preservation of Shepherd Home, a historic 1920's nurse’s quarters, into 32 units of permanent supportive housing with a preference for Veterans.
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