Sofia Dupi, Author at Healthy Communities Online

The Nurse Practitioner Residency Program and the Future of Nursing

June 24, 2011 Sofia Dupi

Earlier this week, I received an email from Kerry Bamrick about CHC’s Nurse Practitioner Residency program: On Thursday, June 16,, 2011 Margaret Flinter and I were invited to Princeton, NJ to attend New Jersey’s Regional Action Coalition Meeting. New Jersey was selected as one of 5 pilot states in the Unites States to participate in the prestigious: Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action. The purpose of the action coalition is to guide the implementation of the recommendations of the Institute…

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David Wessel, economics editor of the Wall Street Journal

June 23, 2011 Sofia Dupi

Last Sunday, WNPR in Connecticut joined the family of stations carrying Conversations on Health Care. The show continues to air on numerous other stations and be available on the CHCRadio website and iTunes. I will continue to post new shows here for people wishing to use other podcasting clients. The URL for the Podcast feed is http://community.chc1.com/category/chcradio/feed/ This week, Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with David Wessel, economics editor of the Wall Street Journal. He’ll give us his perspective…

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Going Viral to Stop the Spread of a Virus

June 22, 2011 Sofia Dupi

Last night, I received an email from our Chief Medical Office, Dr. J. Nwando Olayiwola concerning the National HIV Testing Day Chat Series on Twitter. It is a weeklong set of chats with interesting speakers and an interesting set of topics. Various people from CHC will participate in some of the chats, and I’m disappointed that I missed a couple of the early chats. I realize that not everyone reading this blog is used to TweetChats, so I’m going to…

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Pneumocystis Pneumonia – A Community Response

June 21, 2011 Sofia Dupi

Last Saturday, I received an email from our clinical director, Margaret Flinter sharing her reflections on 30 years of HIV. It is a long, but very meaningful message, and I am posting it here in its entirety with her permission. – Aldon Good morning, everyone, Every once in a while, something causes us to stop and take a deep breath and reflect on momentous changes and challenges we have faced at CHC, in healthcare, and in our communities. I had…

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Men’s Health

June 17, 2011 Sofia Dupi

Sunday is Father’s Day, so this week is Men’s Health Week and this month is Men’s Health Month. Now men’s health isn’t an issue just for fathers, all men should pay more attention to their health. Right now, women live an average of about four years longer than men in the United States. Some of this may be because women are more likely to visit doctors for annual examinations and preventative services than men. In the Patient Files, CHC recommends…

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What if Leopold Bloom worked at a Community Health Center?

June 16, 2011 Sofia Dupi

This morning, I awoke and tweeted a few lines from James Joyce’s Ulysses. After all, today is Bloomsday. Joyce’s Ulysses traced the wanderings of Leopold Bloom through Dublin on this day in 1904, and literary enthusiasts around the world celebrate this day in many different ways. NPR ran a story on people tweeting Ulysses, and I even added a line from Ulysses as I checked in at work on Foursquare. As I stopped to wish a coworker Happy Bloomsday, the…

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