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Help-Portrait 2012 Middletown – Follow Up

Help-Portrait 2012 Middletown – Follow Up

Smiles were in abundance this past Saturday at CHC, as a number of our HealthCorps Navigators and several staff members hosted the health center’s inaugural Help-Portrait event. Members of the Middletown community were invited to 675 Main Street, where high-quality portraits were taken – entirely free of charge – between 10am and 4pm. We were fortunate enough to have two photographers – Jesse Goldman and Daniel Robles – who volunteered their expertise throughout the day, and the result was sixty-six…

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HealthCorps Navigator Profile – Jackie Wang

HealthCorps Navigator Profile – Jackie Wang

 Meet Jackie Wang, a HealthCorps Navigator serving in Quality Improvement  at CHC, Inc. ! –          Can you tell us a bit about your educational background? University of Michigan, BS in Biochemistry, graduated in 2012. –          What about joining CHC most excites you? The chance to meet and work with so many interesting people. –          If not seeing patients/serving at CHC you would rather be _____________? Trying new restaurants or curling up with a good book. –          What musical artist currently dominates your…

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Help-Portrait 2012 – Middletown

Help-Portrait 2012 – Middletown

The Community Health Center, Inc. will be hosting its inaugural version of Help-Portrait on Saturday, December 8th from 10am until 4pm. Founded by Celebrity Photographer Jeremy Cowart, Help-Portrait is a community of photographers coming together across the world to use their photography skills to give back to their local community. As the holiday season approaches in December, photographers around the world will be grabbing their cameras, finding people in need and taking their picture. When the prints are ready, the…

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Dr. Alice Chen Visit

Dr. Alice Chen Visit

The following piece was written by Jackie Wang, a HealthCorps Navigator at CHC, Inc. serving in the Quality Improvement Department.      Last Friday,  Community Health Center, Inc., was honored to host Alice Huan-mei Chen, M.D., M.P.H. Dr. Chen is the Chief Integration Officer at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), the Director of the Center for Innovation in Access and Quality at SFGH, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF). At SFGH, Dr. Chen cares…

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Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts – Coat & Warm Clothing Drive

Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts – Coat & Warm Clothing Drive

Just about a month ago, Hurricane Sandy devastated much of the eastern seaboard of the United States. Canada, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Puerto Rico were also affected by this terrible storm, which has since been deemed the largest Atlantic hurricane in history. The coastlines of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut all suffered tremendously, and recovery efforts will be taking place for quite some time into the future. In the aftermath of Sandy, the HealthCorps Navigators at…

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HealthCorps Navigator Profile – Marsha Pierre

HealthCorps Navigator Profile – Marsha Pierre

 Meet Marsha Pierre, a HealthCorps Navigator serving in Access to Care at the Fairfield County sites of CHC, Inc. ! –          Can you tell us a bit about your educational background? I graduated with the Kutztown University class of 2012 with a Bachelors in Anthropology, in Kutztown, PA. –          What about joining CHC most excites you? What most excites me with my position at CHC is its flexibility. I love that I am able to fulfill my equirements as a HealthCorps Navigator, and at the same time,…

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