Part of orientation for new employees at CHC is a bus tour of different sites we run around the state. To some, it may seem repetitive. How much difference is there, really between different waiting rooms or examination rooms? Yet if you look a little more closely, you pick up little things here and there that you see at one site that you don’t see at another. When I was at our Clinton site during the bus tour, a poster…
The following is a message from Mark and Margaret about Patricia Mik, RN, CHC’s “Nightingale Award 2011 recipient” Thursday evening in the ballroom of the Hartford Marriott, a thousand people gathered for the annual Nightingale Awards for Excellence in Nursing. The Nightingale Awards ceremony is a collaborative effort, celebrated in four cities across Connecticut simultaneously, to celebrate outstanding nurses. Mark and I would like you to join us in congratulating Patricia Mik, RN, of our “Wherever You Are” (W.Y.A) Healthcare for…
It is an old union chant I learned decades ago and these days, as people struggle to find good jobs, it has come back to my mind. Many people I know take jobs to pay the bills. Their job aren’t really an important part of the greater work they want to do, and it is something they endure to be able to have the type of life they want. Others are more fortunate. They view their work in terms of…
Conversations on Health Care focuses this week on the health care needs of the homeless. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Barbara DiPietro, who directs policy and advocacy for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, about delivering patient-centered, team-based, coordinated health care to those experiencing homelessness and how this fits into the larger healthcare system. If you wish to subscribe to the CHC Radio mailing list, please fill out this form: join our mailing list…
Okay. I did it again. I put off writing about important medical tests. March was National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. I waited until the end of the month to write about it, just as I imagine people have put off colorectal cancer screening. As a quick reminder, you don’t have to get screened during National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. You can get screened in any month. I did even worse in April. April was STD Awareness Month and here we…
A message from Mark and Margaret on the 39th anniversary of CHC: Greetings Margaret and I, want to extend a Happy 39th Birthday wish to everyone at CHC! What a month leading up to May 1st – our construction projects in Stamford and New London finished up – thanks to Adele and Alejandro for their leadership along with the their team of staff who have been working to coordinate the project – also, thanks to the staff who patiently go…