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March 15, 2021
by Jane E. Dee
The Winchester Center for Lung Disease, (WCLD), a multidisciplinary center for the diagnosis and care of patients with lung disease, opens in North Haven Medical Center on March 30, 2021. Located at 6 Devine Street, WCLD replaces the Winchester Chest Clinic. The center is a joint partnership with Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale Medicine, and Yale School of Medicine’s Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine (Yale-PCCSM).
The state-of-the-art facility has 30 exam, consultation, and procedure rooms, and access to nearby laboratory services and multi-modality imaging. It will more than triple the clinical capacity of Yale-PCCSM’s practice, increasing the access patients with pulmonary symptoms and diseases have to Yale’s nationally renowned lung experts.
Better quality of life. Reaching local and regional climate-related goals. Supporting transit-oriented development. Raised economic potential.
These were some of the highlights regarding the Winchester Center station demolition work and accessibility improvements that were discussed during a virtual public hearing on Feb. 23 with the MBTA and the town of Winchester.
The project began about a decade ago and reaching the construction phase is a major milestone, according to State Sen. Jason Lewis, who attended the hearing.
“This has been a long and arduous process to bring us to this point in time,” he said. “It’s a very challenging project given the location of the station, squeezed right in of course to Winchester’s downtown. There’s a lot that needs to be done to approve this station.”
The T says there are deteriorating structural conditions on the station's platform. Passengers will be allowed off at the station, but no one will be picked up there.
The station downtown will remain closed until further notice after recent inspections revealed that winter weather-related impacts have resulted in deteriorating conditions on the platform and other areas, an MBTA spokesman said Friday.