Tomorrow, over 50 staff from CHC will participate in the 17th annual Stand Down at the Connecticut Veterans Home in Rocky Hill. This event provides free services, assistance and information to Connecticut Veterans. The past few days have been a flutter with people preparing for the event, and folks from CHC will be arriving early in the morning to make sure everything is all set up. A major part of CHCs contribution to Stand Down is our dental services. Residents…
There are a lot of reasons people don’t get their flu shots. They’re too busy. They have some medical issue they’re concerned about. They worry that the shot will hurt. I know I had both of these issues this year, but CHC has dealt with both of these issues for me. In terms of being too busy, they make it very quick. I walked in, spoke with a few friends, checked a few boxes on a simple form and added…
On Wednesday, August 29th, Amy Taylor from our Stamford site, literary went above and beyond by stepping out over the edge in a fundraiser for the Special Olympics. Normally, I eschew the use of the word ‘literally’. It is misused way too often, normally where figuratively should be used. But in this case, Amy did go above and beyond. She went above and beyond her friends in Stamford as she rappelled down the side of the Harbor Point building in…
Kerry Bamrick has shared the following photograph and information about a recent visit to our Nurse Practitioner Residency Program. Anne Marie Hart,PhD, FNP-BC visited from Wyoming and spent the day at our New Britain site learning more about our Nurse Practitioner Residency Program. Anne Marie conducted a survey and published an article on “How prepared new nurse practitioners are for practice“. We use the results of her survey and quote her article regularly, so it was an honor and pleasure to meet…
A guest post from CHC’s President and CEO, Mark Masselli: While we are just a few months out from celebrating our 40th anniversary, we received sad news about the passing of two people who were very close to the Health Center. The first was Steve Buttner, Dean at Wesleyan University for the Class of 1974 and one of our earliest members of the initial Board of Directors. I attended a memorial service for Steve at the 92 theater at Wesleyan…
A key pillar of our model of care is training the next generation of health care workers. We have a Nurse Practitioner Residency Program and a Postdoctoral Psychology Residency Program. We work with students from nearby Wesleyan University in Middletown and we provide great opportunities for AmeriCorps members. Yet all of this is predicated on people being inspired to serve their communities, inspiration that ideally should start well before the college years. As part of National Health Center Week, CHC…