This holiday season, the tune “Up on the Rooftop” kept echoing in my head. Partly because of hearing various high school choruses perform it, but also because of the roof top of CHC’s building on Main Street in Middletown. The rooftop has become an important place in the community, as illustrated in the blog post Up on the Rooftop at CHC. The views from the roof, with its gardens tended by local elementary school students, and space for various gatherings…
CHC often plays hosts to guests from various organizations around the country. They come to discuss our programs, model of care, facilities, and many other ways that CHC can work with other organizations. We often photograph these guests and are there is now a Facebook Album of pictures of some of our guests. There are pictures of guests from Health Partners of Western Ohio, Community Health Care in Tacoma, Washington, Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Mississippi. It isn’t just…
The ribbon cutting of the new building is taking place on Saturday at 12pm sharp. As the week progresses, more and more people are getting the opportunity to tour the new 48,000 square foot, 3-story comprehensive primary care facility known as The New Community Health Center of Middletown. From my impression after the CHC staff New Building preview event on Tuesday, almost everyone who walked into the building was wide eyed in amazement as the tour progressed. With medical, dental,…
As the flood waters roll down the Mississippi, people fight for democracy around the globe and politicians struggle over difficult budget issues in Hartford and Washington, we can easily get overwhelmed. It is important to try and keep things in perspective, so I look out my window at the tulips that are blooming in front of CHC’s behavioral health building, and the flag flying above the new building that is under construction a block away. Yesterday, CHC staff, together with…
It seems easy to get lost in the day to day details of building healthier communities. Getting patients to eat healthier, get more exercise and regularly take their medications can take up all of our attention. If we pause to look at bigger picture issues, it is likely to be about getting funding for badly needed new facilities and overseeing the construction of such facilities. Yet there are other, underlying issues that need to be addressed. Can we get patients…
For a brief moment, I was five years old again in the small sandbox behind my house. I had my trucks moving around dirt as I built my marvelous edifice that would somehow make the world a better place. I glanced back at my desk and again became the older man, worried about health and finances, trying to do my job the best I can. Yet I have a great job. It is to write about people in the front…