As snow piles up, day after day, for some of us, it can become just a struggle to get to work, but the snow hasn’t buried the spirit of two of CHC’s Patient Service Associates. In the midst of high call volume, a friendly competition developed between Luis Gomez-Arroyo and Crystal Martinez, about who could provide the best quality service to the most patients calling CHC. Last week, Luis handled 99 calls in one day, and when Crystal heard about…
Today, CHC President and CEO Mark Masselli sent the following message to CHC staff. As we honor The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this year and are surrounded by reminders of how far away Dr. King’s dream remains, his words can give us hope. ” The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”. It is a long arc, but President Obama put it into context, ” It bends towards justice, but here is the…
It has been a busy time of the year as CHC has celebrated the holidays with our patients and staff across Connecticut. You can see pictures of some of the events, with more to come in our Facebook Holiday Album Margaret Flinter wrote an email to our Middletown staff about some of last weeks activities: What a week for the CHC of Middletown to demonstrate it love and compassion for our community and our patients! The Homeless Vigil on Thursday…
The following is a message from Dr. Tim Kearney, Chief Behavioral Health Officer here at CHC about how to talk with children about Ebola, adapted to the blog. All of us as parents and those who work with children wish that we could protect them from the knowledge of the tragedies that occur in the world around them and from the impact that this knowledge has on them. Unfortunately we cannot; especially in this age of constant news feeds and social…
The following is a guest blog post from Stefan Kostolitz, Outreach and Eligibility Associate: Connecticut’s first open enrollment period for health insurance closed a little over four months ago, at the end of March. Since October 1st of last year, 256,666 residents have enrolled in health insurance through our state insurance marketplace, Access Health CT. Things have since calmed after the hustle and bustle of open enrollment, and Connecticut has taken a look to see how well the state performed since the…
Yesterday, CHC President and CEO, Mark Masselli sent an open letter to Governor Malloy concerning the influx of children immigrants fleeing violence in their native countries. We are facing a humanitarian crisis in America with the influx of children fleeing violence in their native countries. As a nation, our most immediate concern must be to properly care for these children. We applaud your efforts as Governor to find adequate housing for these children. We know that beyond housing you are…