Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center (CS-HHC) is driven by dedication, impactful community partnerships, experienced professional staff and a passion to provide exemplary healthcare. They continue to achieve breakthroughs and reach milestones, benefitting tens of thousands of patients annually, including many who might otherwise be unable to access quality healthcare. A nationally recognized innovator, their medical professionals have implemented strategies that integrate the latest technology to improve patient care. Services are provided to adults and children across primary and specialty medical services and comprehensive behavioral health.
Impressive progress and care
Quality primary care is more than just filling a prescription. It requires compassion, persistence, and a commitment to community that ensures everyone has access to and receives the care they need. Beyond the numbers, there are people: a patient who found support in their hardest moment, a provider who refused to give up and a team that changed lives. That is at the core of the CS-HHC in men’s and women’s health, pediatrics, geriatrics, dentistry and other departments.
2025 saw the opening of the Recovery & Wellness Center to respond in a coordinated, comprehensive way to individuals grappling with substance use challenges. It expands a continuum of care campus alongside CS-HHC’s South Central Rehabilitation Center in New Haven.
Where future medical professionals turn for foundational learning
CS-HHC has continually deepened its role as a trusted medical home and starting point for future leaders in healthcare. They have established relationships with Yale University, Southern Connecticut State University, University of Saint Joseph, Albertus Magnus College, Porter & Chester Institute, and numerous healthcare organizations, including the New Haven Department of Health and Yale New Haven Health.
Responding to an unprecedented crisis
Two-thirds of CS-HHC’s nearly 60,000 patients are low income, relying on Medicaid for healthcare. In recent years, residents from 167 of Connecticut’s 169 towns have turned to CS-HHC for medical and behavioral health services. To respond locally, the Cornell Scott Hill Health Center Foundation has established the Patient Access Fund to receive unrestricted donations to help subsidize care for the people projected to lose their health insurance coverage and prescription benefits due to changing federal policies. “Our community must support the continued quality healthcare services that our patients have a right to expect; which we are determined to provide. Contributions to our Patient Access Fund will provide a brightly shining beacon of hope for people in need of healthcare services,” says Foundation Chair LindyLee Gold.
The “HeART of Healing” to better health
“HeART of Healing” Arts Initiative’s goal is to curate works of art as a vessel to health and sustained wellbeing for the CS-HHC patient and staff community. Since its launch in 2020, the project has selected nearly two dozen artists, predominantly local, to create or provide artworks to enhance the health center walls that are soothing, engaging and therapeutic. It has been extended to a virtual web gallery, which includes artists highlighting their personal healing journeys through art.
Award-winning healthcare
CS-HHC’s dedicated staff of over 700 people earned recognition from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration in 2025 with three Community Health Quality Recognition awards. The awards recognize CS-HHC for delivering excellent outcomes, controlling per patient costs, securely sharing clinical information and deepening patient engagement through digital innovation. CS-HHC ranks in the top 10% of 1,500 community health centers nationwide.
Learn more at cornellscott.org. Support the Patient Access Fund at cornellscott.org/donate.
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