Good nutrition is an important part of staying healthy, so, during the month of March, fifteen patients attended a nutrition workshop at our Norwalk site. Today was the final day. Heather used a mock grocery tour to review the 5 week workshop. The patients were told to pretend Heather was going shopping with them, and knew nothing about eating healthy. They had to educate her as they walked through every aisle. For the food demo, Heather made veggies with brown…
On Tuesday morning, I had the pleasure of accompanying Marie Yardis, the program manager of CHC’s Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection program to Hartford to learn more about the current situation behind funding for Early Detection Programs. The CT Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection program provides free mammograms and PAP tests to women who have no health insurance. This particular event was organized by the American Cancer Society to bring different people together, who all have a strong…
The following is a message I received from a CHC Doctor, adapted to the blog: Two of us were talking about how refreshing it is to work at our new site in Waterbury. I truly believe that our patients are appreciative of what we do at all of our sites, but in the more established sites they don’t think to say it very often. Waterbury is different. We’re seeing patients who haven’t seen doctors in 5, 10, even 15 years,…
A guest post from Emily Troll Sometimes dance hall, sometimes yoga studio, Vinnie’s is an important piece of the CHC’s work on wellness – not just for the body, but for the whole human being! Vinnie’s recently expanded to offer yoga 5 days a week, with 4 different styles of yoga, and by 3 instructors. Read on for news and thoughts from our yoga team… Meet Jeff Hush! Jeff teaches Power Yoga and Chi Yoga at Vinnie’s on Tuesday and…
CHC is proud to announce that Paula Leibovitz, a Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator working with our Obesity Intervention programs in New Britain and Meriden, was recently elected to serve on the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. With over 70,000 members, the Academy is the largest organization of nutrition professionals in the world. Paula who developed the FoodSmart and Fit™ program has been working with programs at CHC for 6 years. Paula remembers…
On Friday, March 23, 2012, a few minutes before 6:00 am, a round of applause broke out in the Western Connecticut State University Gymnasium. The reality of this sudden moment of praise had nothing to do with athletics, people were cheering for the first registered patient of the Mission of Mercy event as they entered the newly transformed dental clinic which was just your average basketball court the day before. Word had spread that the woman and her son had…