By Michael P. Walsh
Special to the Voice
Mayor Nancy R. Rossi cut an orange ribbon with Hartford HealthCare executives to celebrate the grand opening of West Haven’s new Hartford HealthCare-GoHealth Urgent Care center at 1 Cellini Place in Allingtown on June 7.
The GoHealth walk-in center offers year-round treatment for non-life-threatening illnesses and injuries, on-site X-ray services, and COVID-19 evaluation and testing, said Dr. Eric Walsh, the center’s medical director.
The center is off Route 1 in the brand-new Shops at Park View and occupies a portion of the 16,000 square feet of commercial space below 44 University of New Haven student apartments in the 85,000-square-foot Park View, a development by Chairman David A. Beckerman’s Acorn Group of New Haven.
Walsh, standing behind a lectern near the center’s entrance overlooking the Allingtown Green, said the center specializes in “world-class care” that is “done with a smile,” drawing smiles from the crowd of mostly medical professionals.
The West Haven center is located at “the busiest intersection in the state of Connecticut,” according to Walsh, and is Hartford HealthCare’s 25th of 27 GoHealth centers statewide.
Rossi delivered remarks welcoming Hartford HealthCare-GoHealth to West Haven.
“I am excited to be here standing in front of this beautiful facility,” said Rossi, who gave a special shoutout to Beckerman and Acorn Vice President Gary S. Letendre for choosing downtown Allingtown for the group’s budding development projects.
Beckerman called the Park View development “a labor of love,” adding, “We believe in West Haven, we believe in Allingtown!”
The late-morning ribbon-cutting also included remarks by Hartford HealthCare President and CEO Jeff Flaks, PACT-Hartford HealthCare CEO Dr. David Simon and GoHealth Vice President of Operations Erin Healer.
Also marking the half-hour event were City Council Chairman Peter V. Massaro, Councilwoman Colleen O’Connor, R-at large, and City Clerk Patricia C. Horvath.
They were joined by Milford Regional Chamber of Commerce President Michael Moses, Director of Membership and Marketing Simon McDonald and event coordinator Wendy Terenzio, along with chamber members Erin Eberhardt, the owner of West Shore Associates of West Haven, and Robert Creigh, the vice president of Patriot Bank of Milford.
Walsh said the GoHealth center aims to serve nearby residents and students.
The three-story Park View is two blocks from UNH’s main campus on Route 1, which is home to about 6,000 students.
Across the street, Acorn’s Park View is complemented by the developer’s four-story Atwood, an $18 million project consisting of 90,150 square feet of retail space below 67 UNH student apartments at Route 1 and Atwood Place.
The Atwood and Park View mixed-use developments, which opened in 2017 and 2020, respectively, are collectively known as University Commons at Allingtown Green.
The urgent care center operates next to a PACT-Hartford HealthCare Primary Care office and a Hartford HealthCare office in The Shops at Park View and across from The Side Plate restaurant in The Atwood. PACT, the Physicians Alliance of Connecticut, had relocated from 687 Campbell Ave.
The GoHealth center is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends.
Where was YALE-NEW HAVEN with all this ? …..just wondering how they must feel now that
Hartford as infiltrated the City of West Haven on the doorstep of Yale-New Haven.