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Mark Masselli Presented Paul Harris Fellow by Middletown Rotary Club

Mark Masselli Presented Paul Harris Fellow by Middletown Rotary Club

On Thursday Evening, the Middletown Rotary Club presented the Paul Harris Fellow aware to CHC CEO Mark Masselli.  Here are some details of the award as well as comments from Patti Anne Vassia, first woman Middletown Rotary Club member as she presented the award: Mark Masselli, President and Founder of the Community Health Center, was recently presented a Paul Harris Fellow by the Middletown Rotary Club. The Paul Harris Fellow is presented to community members and Rotarians who have made a…

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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, who took office just as his state was implementing the most far-reaching health reform to date in this country. Governor Patrick discusses the impact of these reforms on health, healthcare, costs, and the economy in his state and his views about the national impact of the Affordable Care Act.

Emergency Drills

Emergency Drills

It was around thirty years ago.  I was a college student teaching at an elementary school in Ohio.  I had grown up in the Northeast and had never been in a tornado drill, but there I was, as the sirens sounded.  Fortunately, the young students all knew what to do and the teacher whose class I was helping with quickly led me through the motions of the drill. This morning, there was a state wide tornado drill across Virginia.  I…

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The Blue and Gold Banquet in New Britain

The Blue and Gold Banquet in New Britain

Yvette Highsmith-Francis, director for CHC sites in Hartford. County started reading the poem, “A Boy in Blue”. Blue and gold are the colors this morning, Boys in uniform shiny and bright; With smiling faces to left and right, We pay tribute to our Cub Scout tonight. Around her, a couple dozen cub scouts from Pack 732 in New Britain listened on.  It was there day.  Some were moving up from Tiger to Bear, others were moving on to Webelos, or…

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Effectively Coordinating Care

Effectively Coordinating Care

In the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Care Coordination Measures Atlas, they say, “Care coordination means different things to different people; no consensus definition has fully evolved.”  Different people have different perspectives, depending on whether they are patients, providers, or other people involved in the health care system.  It can be compounded depending on whether you are dealing with primary care or the emergency room. Recently, the Aetna Foundation announced $750,000 in grants for Studies to Improve Coordination of…

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Larry Levitt, Co-Executive Director of the Kaiser Initiative on Health Care Reform and Private Insurance

Larry Levitt, Co-Executive Director of the Kaiser Initiative on Health Care Reform and Private Insurance

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Larry Levitt, Co-Executive Director of the Kaiser Initiative on Health Care Reform and Private Insurance. Mr. Levitt outlines a series of innovative tools his team has produced that give consumers and policy makers alike immediate information on the likely impact of the Affordable Care Act on individuals, groups and communities.