Hill Health Center is a federally qualified community health center established in 1968 in a collaboration between the community and Yale Medical School. The first community health center in Connecticut, the Hill Health Center has a long history of serving New Haven neighborhoods, which are among the poorest in the State. Hill Health Center also provides health care services to the City of West Haven and towns of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, Ansonia, Derby, Seymour, Shelton, Naugatuck and Oxford.

Hill Health Center is affiliated with Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Hospital of Saint Raphael. Our staff includes: internists, Ob/Gyns, pediatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurse midwives, registered nurses, LPNs, certified medical technologists, certified phlebotomists, social workers, nutritionists, registered dietitians, dentists and dental hygienists. The Center operates six school-based health centers and dental school-based centers. 

The Hill Health Center has made significant achievements over the years. Winner of the 1997 Johnson & Johnson Crystal Award, Hill Health Center provides comprehensive health care services. Some of our special programs include: outreach to homeless individuals and families; Birth-to-Three services for developmentally delayed children; school-based health centers; outreach and social/educational services to pregnant teenagers; emergency food pantry; HIV/AIDS education and outreach to at-risk populations; 25-bed alcohol and drug detoxification program; 31-bed transitional shelter for homeless men; and a child and family guidance clinic.

As a federally qualified health center, Hill Health Center provides an income based sliding fee scale to uninsured persons. The Center accepts most forms of insurance.