This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Carolyn Miles, President and CEO of Save the Children. Miles discusses the organization’s three year study on global child mortality, focusing on newborns, and the strategies being employed to reduce mortality rates. Miles also discusses technological innovations that are allowing Save the Children to serve over 80 million children living in more than 120 countries, including the US.
Since the Supreme Court Ruling about the Affordable Care Act, CHC leadership has been busy helping people understand the implications. Here is the press release issued by CHC. You can also listen to a special Conversations on Health Care segment where Mark and Margaret discuss the ruling in the audio player at the bottom of this blog post. SUPREME COURT RULING UPHOLDING AFFORDABLE CARE ACT TO HAVE POSITIVE IMPACT ON UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS Middletown, Conn. (June 28, 2012) – Today’s ruling on…
The following is a guest post from Kasey Harding-Wheeler, Director of HIV Services at CHC about National HIV Testing Day: If you walked down the streets of Middletown yesterday a few things probably caught your eye. The red balloons and sandwich board advertising National HIV Testing Day activities outside of our brand new Middletown building, the Oasis staff and volunteers decked out in red shirts passing out condom packets along Main Street, the posters asking, “Do you know your status?” and…
Today’s ruling by the Supreme Court that upholds the Affordable Healthcare law, with the exception that the federal government’s power to terminate states’ Medicaid funds will have a far-reaching impact on healthcare providers, especially for those who work with underserved populations. If you are looking for a resource to explain the significance of this ruling and who brings deep experience in the workings for the healthcare system, we have such a person. Dr. J. Nwando Olayiwola is the Chief Medical…
This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of the American Cancer Society. Dr. Brawley speaks about his new book, “How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks and Talks About Being Sick in America”. Dr Brawley explores racial and ethnic disparities in cancer survival and looks at the costs incurred from overuse of certain cancer screenings that are not leading to better health outcomes.
The following is a wonderful guest blog post by AmeriCorps member Brianna Martinez, about her journey in the pursuit of wellness. Salutations! For those of you that do not know me, my name is Brianna and I am the AmeriCorps HealthCorps member for the School Based Health Centers here at CHC. Since wellness seems to be on the tip of everyone’s tongue as of late, I thought I would reflect on my newly discovered infatuation with working out and losing weight. So…