The following is a message from CHC President/CEO Mark Masselli: Good Morning, Today, we celebrate the life and spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as we do every year on this third Monday in January. But even before this national celebration began in 1986, the spirit and actions of Dr. King motivated and inspired people around the world. I’m sure many of you have taken a moment to reflect on his work or heard his words and thought about…
CHC President and CEO Mark Masselli and Senior Vice President and Clinical Director Margaret Flinter have sent the following New Year’s message: Margaret and I extend our best wishes to each of you and your families for a healthy and renewing year ahead. For CHC we are brimming with optimism about the new year. We live in historic times with the rollout of the affordable care act which continues through the end of March and for most of our uninsured patients…
On Saturday, Mark Masselli and I sat down with students and staff from Wesleyan University to explore how we can work together to help people learn to program computers and cellphones to improve the health of our communities. It was an exciting and far reaching discussion. What I did not know at the time was that it was a great precursor to this week. You see, today is Grace Hopper’s birthday, a pioneer in computer science, and a hero of…
Middletown, CT (November 22, 2013) – At the 6th Annual Primary Care Summit, hosted by the Connecticut Center for Primary Care on November 21, 2013, Community Health Center, Inc.’s (CHC) Chief Quality Officer, Dr. Daren Anderson, was presented with the Primary Care Leadership Award for his exemplary leadership in quality improvement in primary care. Dr. Anderson, a board –certified internist, joined the staff of CHC in September 1998 and served as a primary care provider and chief medical officer before…
A message from Mark Masselli concerning the recognition of Dr. Lecce’s work by the Middlesex County NAACP Last night, the Middlesex County NAACP honored Dr. Lecce with its Community Service award. This comes from a group that has for over one hundred years been at the forefront of promoting social justice for all . The NAACP is committed to eliminating the racial and ethnic disparities in our health care system that plague people of color in the United States ….
Yesterday, CHC’s Chief Nursing Officer, Bernadette Thomas, shared the following message with CHC staff: Good afternoon! As CHC has evolved our services model, we have challenged our Medical Assistants to perform at the top of their professional certifications to become an integral part of the delivery of comprehensive patient care. Fortunately for each of us and all of our patients, our Medical Assistant’s continue to demonstrate that they are up to the task! Our Medical Assistants play a major role in…