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136 School of Nursingmedical and pediatric care, preventive health education, language translation, counseling,and community outreach. Center funding comes from patient fees and a variety of private,government, and third-party reimbursement sources. In addition to its main facility, thecenter operates a satellite for geriatric patients at an elderly housing complex and threeschool-based clinics, one at a high school, one at a middle school, and one at an elementaryschool. The Fair Haven Center is located in a health professional shortage area. Director,Katrina Clark, M.P.H.Hill Health Center, established in 1968, is a community-oriented family health service thatprovides comprehensive care to more than 32,500 people in the New Haven area. Thecenter also operates four satellite clinics: Dixwell Health Center, which specificallyserves the Dixwell, Newhallville, and West Rock areas; Women’s Health Services; theWest Haven Health Center; and the Community Health Connection in Ansonia, servingthe Lower Naugatuck Valley.The center’s programs are supported by federal grants, patient fees, third-party payments,private donations, foundation grants, and contracts-for-service.There is emphasis on the total family health needs with comprehensive medical,dental, psychosocial, nursing, and other ancillary services provided by a team composedof professionals and community residents trained as health workers. The intent is toallow the health professional to deal more efficiently and effectively with the health careneeds of the people to be served. Programs include the Young Parents Outreach Program;school-based clinics at Robinson and Clemente middle schools, and Hill Central,Lincoln-Bassett, Truman, Davis Street, and Brennan elementary schools; a homelesshealth care project, an aids outreach project, a twenty-nine-bed medical detoxificationcenter; a comprehensive perinatal care program; an outpatient drug and alcohol treatmentprogram; a public housing primary care project; and a day treatment program forhomeless substance abusers. Chief Executive Officer, Cornell Scott.The Hospital of Saint Raphael was founded in 1907 by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabethand is a voluntary nonprofit community and teaching hospital. It is licensed for 511beds. A $25 million ambulatory surgical facility opened in 1999.Last year, the Hospital of Saint Raphael discharged over 24,314 inpatients. Therewere 49,080 emergency room and 65,645 clinic visits, with short-term surgery cases surpassing9,209. Noteworthy statistics include one of the highest geriatric and case mixindexes in the state. The hospital has one of the largest caseloads of cardiothoracicsurgery in Connecticut.Saint Raphael’s provides clinical laboratory experience facilities for the four-yearbaccalaureate and graduate programs of Southern Connecticut State University andSacred Heart University; the R.N. baccalaureate program of Quinnipiac College; theone-year Licensed Practical Nurse program of Eli Whitney Technical School; theLicensed Practical Nurse Program of New England Technical Institute; the four-yearbaccalaureate programs of Quinnipiac University and Fairfield University; the graduateprograms at Yale University School of Nursing, the University of Connecticut, andColumbia University; the associate degree program of Saint Vincent’s Hospital; R.N. to