This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Bryan Sivak, Chief Technology Officer of the Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Sivak talks about programs underway at HHS to harness the power of data, technology and innovation to improve the health and welfare of the nation. He discusses numerous programs that have been launched to improve access to health data for researchers, governments and individuals.
A message from The Community Health Center, Inc.’s Chief Nursing Officer, Bernadette Thomas, APRN, DNP, MPH, in honor of National Medical Assistants Recognition Day. Greetings everyone: In recent years, CHC has undergone tremendous change and growth: we have moved from paper charts to electronic records, we moved from offices to pods, and most recently, we became a Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home. Throughout all of these changes the role of CHC’s Medical Assistants has been transformed into a complex…
On Thursday, October 11th, health centers across the United States offered depression screenings as part of a national day dedicated to the awareness and prevention of this behavioral illness. The staff at CHC Stamford partook in the event – titled National Depression Screening Day – and produced some outstanding results. Post-Doc Resident Amy Wicker saw all patients, medical and dental staff for consults, warm hand-offs and individual screenings. Amy engaged in 11 informational discussions with patients interested in CHC’s services…
Meet Stephanie Fassu Noulaheu, a new Nurse Practitioner in Residency at CHC! – Can you tell us a bit about your educational background? I got my RN and MSN education at Samuel Merritt University, California – What about joining CHC most excites you? We are part of the Patient Centered Medical Home movement, which in my opinion is the future of healthcare; and we’re doing it in the most innovative ways, for a population often forgotten by most. – If not…
Below is a guest blog post composed by Nicole Jarjura, Patient Navigator for Early Detection Colorectal Cancer Screening at CHC. As we all well know, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month, and is marked as a time when individuals, businesses, health care organizations (and even the National Football League) come together to promote awareness of the disease in many different ways. Some walk, some fundraise and some wear pink.CHC’s Early Detection Program would like to encourage all Middletown & Clinton…
Several years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report predicting that depression would become the world’s leading cause of disability by the year 2020. A September 2012 study by the American Journal of Public Health noted that depression is now the number one cause of injury mortality in the United States. Just two years prior, depression was ranked 10th on this same list, but it has now surpassed car accidents for the dreaded top spot. Statistics such as…