About Our Practice | Independent Primary Care in Newtown, CT

Community Health Associates office at 153 S Main Street, Newtown, CT

40+

Years Serving
Newtown, CT

Who We Are

A privately owned primary care practice at 153 S Main Street

Community Health Associates was founded and is still led by Dr. Jeffrey Friedman. For more than four decades it has been the primary care home for families across Newtown, Sandy Hook, Monroe, Southbury, Woodbury, Bethel, Brookfield, Oxford, and Danbury.

The practice is small on purpose: two providers, one office, and a front desk that recognizes your name when you call. Dr. Friedman sees patients through the MDVIP concierge program. Cheryl Rosenthal, APRN sees patients of all ages and is accepting new patients now.

Being small is what makes the care personal. Your provider knows your history because they are the one who has been following it, year after year.

✓ Accepting New Patients

MDVIP and general appointments available

✓ Same-Week Visits

Cheryl Rosenthal, APRN offers same-week visits for acute concerns

Meet the providers

Why Independence Matters

What changes when a practice is sold

When a hospital system buys a primary care practice, the sign on the door usually stays the same. What changes happens behind the scenes: how long appointments are scheduled for, which specialists patients can be referred to, which lab runs the bloodwork, and how many patients a provider is expected to see each day.

Patients never see those decisions being made, but they feel the results. A fifteen-minute visit is simply not the same care as a thirty-minute one.

Because we are independent, those decisions are made here, by the people who actually take care of you. That is why we can say, and mean, that every treatment decision is based on what is best for the patient.

1

Your care is never rushed

We set our own appointment lengths. When a visit needs more time, it gets more time, and the schedule absorbs it.

2

Referrals go where they should

We are not obliged to keep referrals inside a network. If the right specialist for your problem works somewhere else, that is where you go.

3

You see the same provider

Continuity is the quiet advantage of a small practice. The provider who saw you last year is the one reading your results this year, and they notice what has changed.

4

A real person answers the phone

Call (203) 270-1077 during office hours and you reach our front desk, not a regional call center. The person who answers works here and knows the practice.

Our Medical Philosophy

One guiding principle, applied consistently

The practice has always run on a single rule: every treatment decision should be based on what is best for the patient. Plenty of practices say that. Staying independent is what lets us actually do it, because no one outside the exam room has a say in your care.

That principle leads to a careful, evidence-based style of medicine. We follow current national guidance from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and the relevant specialty societies rather than chasing whatever is newest, and if a test is not needed, we will explain why rather than simply order it.

It also means we take prevention seriously. Most serious conditions can be caught years before they become emergencies, which makes the annual physical one of the most valuable appointments in medicine. We treat it that way.

And it means being straight with you. If something is uncertain, we will say it is uncertain. If a decision is genuinely yours to make, we will lay out the trade-offs rather than making it for you.

"I was so impressed with the authentic caring attitudes of everyone in the office. From sign in to seeing Cheryl Rosenthal, APRN. I am so thankful."

Jane Kelly · Google Review

The Practice Today

Still Independent, Still in Newtown, After 40 Years

A privately owned primary care practice at 153 S Main Street

What changes when a practice is sold

Your care is never rushed

Referrals go where they should

You see the same provider

A real person answers the phone

One guiding principle, applied consistently

What we do, and where to go next

Our providers

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