Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center (CS-HHC) is drivenby dedication, impactful community partnerships, experienced professional staffand a passion to provide exemplary healthcare, which is essential not only forindividuals and families, but for our entire region. The comprehensive, integratedprimary and specialty medical, dental, and behavioral health solutions areprovided to adults and children, central to the region’s quality of life.
During 2025, the health center served nearly 60,000patients, with over 414,000 patient visits, a 7 percent increase from theprevious year. Connecticut’s first community health center, founded in 1968,now ranks in the top 10 percent of the nation’s 1,500 plus community healthcenters.
Imperative to Ensure Continued Quality Health Care
Quality primary care requires compassion, persistence, and acommitment to community that ensures everyone has access to and receives thecare they need. That has never been moreof an imperative than now, amid federal cutbacks that are eliminating healthinsurance coverage to many local residents and increasing premiumssubstantially to many more – pushing costs beyond the ability to pay forthousands of people across our city, region and state.
“We are determined to sustain the caliber of care that ismaking a life-changing difference in the lives of our neighbors, their familiesand our entire community,” says Michael R. Taylor, President and CEO of CornellScott-Hill Health Center. “Our resolve will not diminish. With communitysupport, we will continue to impact lives in meaningful and enduring ways.”
Foundation in Support of Mission Earns Support
Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center is unwavering in itscommitment to do everything possible to continue serving the health care needsof its patients, and those who turn to CS-HHC in times of acute need. To assist, the Cornell Scott Hill HealthCenter Foundation was established to help broaden community support onbehalf of the health center’s mission.
The Foundation, since it began just two years ago, hasearned widespread support from donors across the region - from community partnerssuch as Yale New Haven Health, leading businesses including Bank of America,and scores of local residents.
Patient Access Fund Responds to Increasing Need
Each and every donation to the recently launched PatientAccess Fund helps to sustain quality care and responds to the urgent need,prompted by unprecedented revisions to federal policies, tremendous uncertaintyregarding continued access to healthcare coverage, and well-founded fears aboutthe economic impact on families needing access to fundamental, basic healthcareservices. Concerns are likely tointensify, as federal changes due to take effect in 2027 includerecertification of Medicaid work requirements, which could result in even morepeople losing their health care.
“The most vulnerable people in our communities are now theleast protected,” explains Foundation Chair LindyLee Gold. “They are buffeted by unfathomable choices –which increasingly means that healthcare is deferred, putting themselves orfamily members at risk. Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center’s dedicated andaccomplished staff is ever present, so that people will not need to delay whatis necessary.”
“Our focus is to provide the resources essential to providethe level of care each person needs, when they need it,” she continued. “Wecannot allow patients’ health to be compromised based on uncertain subsidies;we have a moral obligation to provide the services that are needed. TheFoundation reflects our community’s generous spirit of caring.”
Earning National Recognition for Quality of Care
CS-HHC’s dedicated staff of over 700 earned recognition fromthe U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration in 2025 for deliveringexcellent outcomes, controlling per patient costs, securely sharing clinicalinformation and deepening patient engagement through digital innovation. APatient-Centered Medical Home, CS-HHC continues to expand and elevatetransformative health initiatives across the region, including training thenext generation of healthcare professionals through vibrant academicpartnerships.
CS-HHC’s comprehensive services include women’s and men’shealth, pediatrics and geriatrics, dental and pharmacy, and includeschool-based health centers in multiple communities.