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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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Franklin Street CHC Dental Gives Kids in Crisis a Smile

Franklin Street CHC Dental Gives Kids in Crisis a Smile

The following post is from a message Stamford Dental Director Dr. Tinashe Chapfika, DDS, shared about providing services to Kids in Crisis as part of Give Kids a Smile: February is Give Kids a Smile Month, and to honor that, Toma, Laxmi and I from CHC Franklin st., Stamford visited the Kids in Crisis center in Cos Cob, CT. The visit included oral hygiene education (with our furry, friendly, monkey muppet), oral hygiene demonstrations, product distribution, and a question answer session. Caries…

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Martin Luther King Jr. Speech

Martin Luther King Jr. Speech

The following is a speech as prepared for delivery by Yvette Highsmith-Francis this morning at the Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast in Meriden. I am sure that many of us have been impacted by Dr. King’s life and legacy both directly and indirectly. As a young woman, raised by a single mom, living in public housing, living in poverty financially but wealthy in love and support – Dr. King’s legacy became very relevant to me in a serendipitous way –…

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

A message from Mark and Margaret to the CHC family: This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, let me take a moment to thank each and every member of the CHC family for your work in helping us realize Dr. King’s dream.  In his great “I have a dream” speech, Dr. King said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin…

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Up on the Rooftop at CHC, Redux

Up on the Rooftop at CHC, Redux

This holiday season, the tune “Up on the Rooftop” kept echoing in my head.  Partly because of hearing various high school choruses perform it, but also because of the roof top of CHC’s building on Main Street in Middletown. The rooftop has become an important place in the community, as illustrated in the blog post Up on the Rooftop at CHC.  The views from the roof, with its gardens tended by local elementary school students, and space for various gatherings…

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National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day

National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day

Across the country, last Friday, the longest night of the year, people stopped to remember homeless people that have died.  Here in Middletown, Martha Trevey, one of our primary care provider for homeless people,  shared some of her thoughts with those gathered:   Today, December 21 st, is the winter solstice. It marks the longest night of the year. It will be dark for over 15 hours tonight in Middletown, CT. For those of us that are homeless, this means 15 hours of…

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