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National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

February is Black History Month, a time to celebrate African Americans who have fought hard for freedom and equality.  It is a time to remember their successes and their struggles.  While much progress has been made, there are still important hurdles to be overcome. One such area is in health disparities.  According to the Center for Disease Control Among all racial/ethnic groups, African Americans bear the greatest burden of HIV in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and…

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A Salute to CHC Staff

A Salute to CHC Staff

This morning, CHC President and CEO Mark Masselli addressed staff at a meeting kicking off the budgeting process for the 2012-2013 fiscal year.  Among other key points of this speech, he spoke about  the dedicated staff at CHC.  Here is an excerpt of some of those comments: How fortunate Community Health Center is to find itself in its 40th year of operation with a staff that comes to work each day with an optimism in the work we do and…

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Dr. Jonathan Gruber, MIT Economist and Health Reform Architect

Dr. Jonathan Gruber, MIT Economist and Health Reform Architect

This week on Conversations on Health Care, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter discuss health care reform with MIT Health Economist Dr. Jonathan Gruber, one of the chief architects of health care reform in Massachusetts, and a significant contributor to the development of the Affordable Care Act health reform legislation. Dr. Gruber discusses the economics underlying health reform, and his recent “graphic novel,” Health Care Reform: What it is, Why it’s Necessary, How it Works, which translates complex legislation into…

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CHC Project ECHO Kickoff

CHC Project ECHO Kickoff

Amidst all the fanfare about CHC kicking off Project ECHO® in Connecticut and the discussions about innovative use of telemedicine to improve health outcomes, it could be easy to lose focus on what truly matters, the patient. Yet CHC is a Patient Centered Medical Home, which is more than just a nice title added to the website, and the patient centered aspect shone through in the first Project ECHO teleconference.  Yes, there were the introductory speeches, the photographers and the…

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Innovation and Training the Next Generation

Innovation and Training the Next Generation

One thing that attracted me to CHC was its commitment to innovation and training the next generation of health care providers.  They go hand in hand.  As new innovations are discovered staff needs to learn about them and you wouldn’t want to train the next generation of health care providers on old approaches that are no longer considered a best practice. CHC has several important programs to help accomplish these goals, like the Weitzman Symposium, and the Conversations on Health…

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Project ECHO at CHC

Project ECHO at CHC

The following is a guest post from Dr. Marwan Haddad MD, MPH, Medical Director of HIV, HCV, and Buprenorphine Services at Community Health Center, Inc. This Friday January 20th is the launch of the very cutting edge, state of the art, evidence-based program CHC Project ECHO® Hepatitis C/HIV. Project ECHO® stands for Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes and is a model that was developed at the University of New Mexico initially to extend Hepatitis C care and management to the…

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