South Carolina. The first thing that always comes to my mind is my longtime friend, Lillian “Reba” Moses, daughter of a sharecropper and co-founder of Community Health Center. Reba was born in Florence, South Carolina and she made her way north as part of a migration for better opportunity for herself and her family. While a place of hard times, she always fondly remembered her days growing up in Florence and the influence that the church, prayer and faith had…
Greetings Here at CHC, we are driven by the belief that health care is a right, not a privilege. We work tirelessly to care for the underserved in our state. At times, disasters occur beyond Connecticut that remind us of us of how fragile life is and the global need to care for one another. We have viewed with shock and sadness the devastation of parts of Nepal from a powerful earthquake. We truly are a global community, and many…
This is an email from Mark Masselli to CHC Staff, adapted for the blog. Greetings, We’re here to help and we do – whether you’re a physician practice in Colorado, a Health Center in Maine or a homeless person in Danbury, Connecticut. Yesterday was a great example of CHC’s reach and impact – here and across the country. Ever since we started CHC forty three years ago, people have seen our expertise and come to us looking for help starting…
Next week on Conversations on Health Care, we will be speaking with architect Robin Guenther. She is an internationally recognized leader in sustainable health industry design, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and Principal at Perkins and Will. We will be talking about sustainable health care architecture, where we are today, where it’s come from and where it’s going. Listen to her comments on sustainable health care architecture and the climate march and be sure to listen to…
Next week on Conversations on Health Care, Margaret and I speak with Dr. Jonathan Gruber who was one of the key architects of the Massachusetts Health Reform legislation, and advised the Obama administration on the creation of the Affordable Care Act. We’ll talk a little bit about the controversy around things he’s said about the Affordable Care Act. One of the more interesting things that Dr. Gruber talks about is how central the actual administration of the exchanges would be. …