Category Archives: Quality

CHC Earns Primary Care Medical Home Designation from The Joint Commission

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Aldon Hynes

CHC is the first health care organizations in Connecticut and one of the first in the nation to receive dual PCMH designations  CHC has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™ for certification as a Primary Care Medical Home … Continue reading →

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Effectively Coordinating Care

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Aldon Hynes

In the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Care Coordination Measures Atlas, they say, “Care coordination means different things to different people; no consensus definition has fully evolved.”  Different people have different perspectives, depending on whether they are patients, providers, … Continue reading →

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Project Echo, Google+, Patient Education, and a Patient Centered Medical Home.

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Aldon Hynes

What happens when you ask a social media manager for a Patient Centered Medical Home to write about Project Echo?  You just might get a strange collection of thoughts drawn into a single blog post.  Ready? Last month, I sat … Continue reading →

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Project ECHO

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Aldon Hynes

It was like a cross between House and a video version of Car Talk for doctors with patients infected with Hepatitis C.  Instead of breaking into people’s apartments to find some hidden environmental  cause of a difficult to diagnose illness, … Continue reading →

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Facing the Drill at the Dentist Office

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Aldon Hynes

Like many people, I’m not all that fond of going to the dentist office to get a cavity filled.  I hate getting the shots, having my mouth all numb, and listening to the sound of the drill.  I do feel … Continue reading →

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Developing Innovations in Health Care

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Aldon Hynes

When I first interviewed at CHC, one of the selling points for me was the health center’s commitment to innovation.  I must admit, I was a little skeptical.  Innovation is a word thrown around by just about everyone these days, … Continue reading →

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Beating the Boring Morning Meeting

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Aldon Hynes

Few things can start the day, or the week off worse than a required routine monotonous morning meeting.  Maybe you’ve been to meetings like this yourself and you know how they go.  People drone on and on about things that … Continue reading →

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Pill Counter, or Medical Sleuth

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Aldon Hynes

Last Thursday during a weekly TweetChat about community health centers the topic of drug resistant bacteria came up which led to some interesting comments about pharmacists at community health centers.  I mentioned that we have some pharmacists and pharmacy students … Continue reading →

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Crossing Other Quality Chasms

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Aldon Hynes

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness. – Robert Pirsig This morning, Health Affairs had a Briefing: Still Crossing the Quality Chasm.  They also put up a blog … Continue reading →

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