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September 30, 2024 / 2024 Connecticut's Healthcare Heroes Awards

2024 Healthcare Hero: Dr. Joshua Jones

Dr. Joshua Jones Primary Care Physician, Family Health & Wellness Center (Hartford) Wheeler Health Return to the honorees homepage
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Winner Category | Physician

Dr. Joshua Jones is a primary care physician at Wheeler Health’s Family Health & Wellness Center in Hartford, a federally qualified health center. He has focused a significant part of his work helping patients in their recovery from substance use disorder.

What makes you a Healthcare Hero?

The heroes are actually my patients who are in addiction recovery and want a better tomorrow. I am a passionate advocate for medication-assisted treatment for addiction, which is an effective, evidence-based outpatient therapy.

One recovery hero I recently treated had been using fentanyl and had “failed” in his attempts to transition to the medication Suboxone. We found an exam room where he could stay most of the day, and I was able to coach him through a microinduction, small amounts of Suboxone at a time, which prevents withdrawal. He was able to successfully transition, and is still in recovery today.

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Tell us about a challenge in your job that you were able to overcome.

The primary challenges are those that we, as a society, place on our most vulnerable neighbors. Thankfully I have an amazing team that is able to fill in my gaps of knowledge, allowing us to help guide patients to their best possible outcomes.

What’s your next major goal and/or challenge?

I hope to expand our access deeper into the community by increasing use of our Mobile Family Health & Wellness Center to help those who are simply unable to get out to doctor’s appointments.

Personal side:

Residence: Simsbury

Favorite way to relax: Spending time with my wife and young son, Theo.

Hobbies: Art and playing golf badly

Favorite movie: “Lord of the Rings” trilogy

Currently reading: “Lesson in Classical Drawing,” by Juliette Aristides

Favorite cause: Universal Pre-K

Fun fact: My undergraduate degree is actually in classical guitar performance, which is what brought me to Hartford in 2005.

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