This afternoon, we live tweeted highlights this weeks episode of Conversations on Health Care with Dan Hawkins, senior vice president for policy and research at the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) The online conversation took place on CoverItLive
This week, CHC opened a new school-based health center at Domus’ Trailblazers Academy and Stamford Academy in Stamford. It will bring on-site medical and mobile dental care to approximately 300 middle and high school students. The center, located at 83 Lockwood Ave., is the first that CHC has opened in Fairfield County and one of only 20 throughout the state. Jane Hylan, our director of school health services observed, ““Prior to our opening this school-based health center, several students from…
The British Medical Association’s head of science and ethics, Dr Vivienne Nathanson recent spoke with the BBC about how ‘happy hospitals’ can save money “What people sometimes forget is that while helping people to feel better during their hospital stay we can reduce their need for painkillers, their likelihood of getting some depression and perhaps not eating enough. “All of these things will limit their recovery and if we can speed people’s recovery, they have shorter time in hospital, shorter…
Well, here we are. My first blog post as Social Media Manager for Community Health Center’s new blog, Healthy Communities Online. I’ve been blogging for many years with a lot of my focus on politics, education and journalism. Much of this has really been around how to build healthy communities online, although I may not have been thinking about it in these terms as I was writing. When I heard that Community Health Centers, Inc. was looking for a social…