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We’re Here to Help

We’re Here to Help

This is an email from Mark Masselli to CHC Staff, adapted for the blog. Greetings, We’re here to help and we do – whether you’re a physician practice in Colorado, a Health Center in Maine or a homeless person in Danbury, Connecticut. Yesterday was a great example of CHC’s reach and impact – here and across the country. Ever since we started CHC forty three years ago, people have seen our expertise and come to us looking for help starting…

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Project ECHO – Pain Management

Project ECHO – Pain Management

Over 116 million Americans suffer from chronic pain and over 50% of those will seek care from a primary care provider. Considering the frequency and severity of chronic pain in our population, we at the Community Health Center, Inc. are proud to announce that Project ECHO Pain Management recently got underway. Our team at CHC has joined forces with the Integrative Pain Center of Arizona in making this incredibly important program a reality. The weekly telemedicine conferences bring behavioral health…

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Project Echo for Buprenorphine

Project Echo for Buprenorphine

The latest Project Echo® started this afternoon at CHC.  These are teleconferences where experts help primary care providers in handling specific topics.  The new topic is Buprenorphine, which is often used to help patients with drug addictions.  Like other Project Echo topics, when these can be complicated cases requiring great team work. Dr. Haddad explains it this way, We are including behavioral health, nursing, and the medical assistants because they all are integral to the success of the program and…

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CHC Project ECHO Kickoff

CHC Project ECHO Kickoff

Amidst all the fanfare about CHC kicking off Project ECHO® in Connecticut and the discussions about innovative use of telemedicine to improve health outcomes, it could be easy to lose focus on what truly matters, the patient. Yet CHC is a Patient Centered Medical Home, which is more than just a nice title added to the website, and the patient centered aspect shone through in the first Project ECHO teleconference.  Yes, there were the introductory speeches, the photographers and the…

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Project ECHO at CHC

Project ECHO at CHC

The following is a guest post from Dr. Marwan Haddad MD, MPH, Medical Director of HIV, HCV, and Buprenorphine Services at Community Health Center, Inc. This Friday January 20th is the launch of the very cutting edge, state of the art, evidence-based program CHC Project ECHO® Hepatitis C/HIV. Project ECHO® stands for Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes and is a model that was developed at the University of New Mexico initially to extend Hepatitis C care and management to the…

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Dr. Sanjeev Arora, founder of the Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO).

Dr. Sanjeev Arora, founder of the Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO).

Conversations focuses this week on an innovative model of care that’s linking primary care providers with specialists in rural and underserved areas of the country. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Sanjeev Arora, founder of Project ECHO®, about how the ECHO model has the potential to increase access, improve health outcomes, and support primary care providers in caring for complex conditions.