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NewHaven BIZ
By Maureen Lynch
June 22, 2021

In his popular show “Travels & Traditions with Burt Wolf,” the globe-trotting journalist has spotlighted topics such as cruising the rivers of Europe and whether success is due to nature or nurture.

Now he is spotlighting something really close to home: Gaylord Specialty Healthcare in Wallingford.

A production crew from the international public broadcasting series filmed an upcoming episode at Gaylord in June, and it will air to an international audience of millions this fall.

What prompted Wolf to feature Gaylord?

Wolf said a friend told him about the “spectacular” care he had received there, so Wolf decided he wanted to know more, even though he had never filmed a show about a hospital before.

NBC 30
AUGUST 20, 2021 10:04 PM

A Newington woman who became critically ill, postponing her sister’s wedding, was finally able to be Maid of Honor at that wedding, thanks to Gaylord Hospital.  See Story

Hartford Courant
By CHRISTINE DEMPSEY
AUG 09, 2021 AT 6:00

HEBRON — Lois Roy was filling in the cracks of a mostly empty church parking lot in Hebron one May morning when the improbable happened: She was run over by a hit-and-run driver.

Roy, the church sexton in charge of maintenance, nearly died. She spent six weeks in intensive care at Hartford Hospital, intubated, and only recently began talking and walking.

By Inside Edition Staff
August 1, 2021

Greg Whitehouse suffered from Guillain-Barre syndrome or GBS, a paralyzing autoimmune disorder likely triggered by COVID-19.

There were tears of joy and accomplishment when Greg Whitehouse crossed the finish line of an intense and challenging obstacle course. For someone who had been unable to walk just seven months before the Gaylord Gauntlet 5K and Obstacle Race in Connecticut, this was life-changing.

Greg contracted what he thought was a mild case of COVID-19, but two weeks after his diagnosis, he felt shooting pain down his back. This led to him falling and breaking his ankle.

FOX61 News
Author: Jim Altman
Published: July 16, 2021

WALLINGFORD, Conn. — Tricia Oporto, a wife and mother of twin girls from Bristol found out the diagnosis in April, doctors found a tumor on her brain.

The 43-year old piano teacher and church organist went to get her special surgery at the Cleveland Clinic and has been at Gaylord Specialty Healthcare in Wallingford for her intense rehab for the past six weeks. 

The 2022 1st Quarter Nominees for the Joseph A. Lindenmayer Employee of the Year Award

Hartford Courant via Yahoo News
Lori Riley, Hartford Courant
Sun, July 11, 2021, 

When Korene Varano was 12 years old, she got a new bike.

Two months later, she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer, in her femur. She never got to ride her new bike. But 30 years later, she would get another chance.

After 17 reconstructive surgeries, after a lifetime spent in hospitals, on crutches, in a wheelchair, in pain, Varano decided to have her left leg amputated in 2017. In 2018, she went to the Hanger Clinic in North Haven to be fitted for a prosthetic leg.

Fox 61 News
By Jim Altman
July 8, 2021

WALLINGFORD, Conn. — They call themselves the “COVID Crusaders”, a team of doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists from Gaylord Hospital who decided to add some more obstacles to their already overburdened workload. 

After enduring almost a year and a half of tirelessly fighting for their patients against the grips of COVID-19, the 37 staffers at Gaylord Hospital decided to enter the Gaylord Gauntlet – a 5k “tough mudder” race that happens every year outside the sprawling hospital grounds. 

WTNH, Channel 8 News
by: Lisa Carberg
Posted: Jul 1, 2021 

WALLINGFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — July is the month when the most spinal cord accidents happen. The victims are mostly men in their 20’s diving into water that is too shallow or dangerous according to Megan Palmer who runs a Diving Danger Awareness Program from Gaylord Specialty Healthcare called “Think First.”

Gaylord is a top facility for caring for paraplegic patients.

Ryan Rosario of Meriden has been going to Gaylord since his diving accident left him paralyzed from the neck down in 2007.