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Hartford HealthCare brings Campus Health Program to The Taft School

Students will have access to high-quality, coordinated health and wellness services

Hartford HealthCare and The Taft School in Watertown, Conn., announced a special partnership today to coordinate on-campus healthcare services for students, athletes, faculty and staff.

Advanced, coordinated on-campus healthcare

The Taft School will contract with Hartford HealthCare’s Campus Care program to provide high-quality, coordinated health and wellness services to manage students’ complete care needs, from physical and mental well-being to care for their athletes.

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Sara Sahl, MD, Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Pediatrics, will be appointed as the new medical director for The Taft School. Sahl graduated from Columbia University and St. George's University School of Medicine with her residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.

“We are proud to partner with a leading institution like Taft and provide a medical director to lead their health services team, connecting students to world-class specialists to help them live their healthiest lives,” said Eric Smullen, senior vice president of Hartford HealthCare’s Community Network.

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“We look forward to this new partnership with Hartford HealthCare and are confident that it will help us meet the evolving health needs of our students,” said William R. MacMullen, Taft’s Head of School.

This collaboration with Hartford HealthCare is one of many vibrant relationships with healthcare organizations throughout the state that continue to offer Taft students access to healthcare, behavioral health services and connections to more than 400 locations around Connecticut. Learn more at HartfordHealthCare.org/CampusCare

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