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June Employee of the Month

June Employee of the Month

Adele Gordon awarded AmeriCorps member Juan Javier-Desloges with Fairfield County’s June Employee of the Month designation.  Juan was not available to receive the award at the staff meeting because he had to leave to start his first semester of medical school.  CONGRATULATIONS Juan!!! Adele praised Juan’s work with CHC, which he did with enthusiasm and extraordinary effort.  From participating in various community fairs like Stone Soup and the Hispanic Fair, to organizing a successful Red Cross blood drive in Stamford…

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How Can We Inspire Health?

How Can We Inspire Health?

If one question caught my attention and summed up my thoughts from the Weitzman Symposium last week, it was Jay Parkinson’s question, “How Can We Inspire Health?”  It was a brilliant exploration of the topic.  But the symposium is now over and we need to get back to work; moving beyond thinking about the questions to acting upon them. That is what happened Saturday at our Day Street Community Health Center in Norwalk. There is more to health than a…

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Amy D. Gagliardi is named to the Board of Directors of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition and attends her first board meeting

Amy D. Gagliardi is named to the Board of Directors of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition and attends her first board meeting

Note: One evening last week, I was talking with coworkers and Amy Gagliardi’s name came up.  One person commented that they weren’t exactly sure what Ms. Gagliardi does, and another commented that it was something really important to do with health care for expecting mothers.  Here is a post from Amy about her recent trip to Washington DC which may help people understand the valuable contribution she makes at CHC at to Maternal and Child Health everywhere. Recently I traveled…

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New Employee of the Month Program in Fairfield County Recognizes Noemi Portillo, Stamford Front Desk Receptionist

New Employee of the Month Program in Fairfield County Recognizes Noemi Portillo, Stamford Front Desk Receptionist

Note: CHC has many wonderful employees and we are exploring ways of honoring their great work.  Amy Taylor has sent me the following as a blog post, which we hope to see develop into a regular feature.  Please, let us know your thoughts.  – Aldon Adele Gordon, director of CHC’s three Fairfield County sites, initiated a new employee recognition program beginning this month.  The program is designed to highlight the accomplishments of a staff member in Fairfield County who goes…

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Quality: The combined and unceasing efforts of everybody

Quality: The combined and unceasing efforts of everybody

Friday afternoon.  It has been a full week and my desk is still covered with things to follow up on.  So, I’m going to cover a few different important topics. Let’s start off with National Nurses Week.  It ended yesterday on Florence Nightingale’s birthday.  As a kid, I always thought of Florence Nightingale as the topic that the nice girls who would grow up and be suburban housewives chose to write reports about back in fifth grade when we studied…

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Dr. Bernadette Thomas, DNP

Dr. Bernadette Thomas, DNP

It is with great joy that I share a blog post submitted by Margaret Flinter via her cellphone from Baltimore.  Thank you Margaret for submitting this:  Today Dr. Nwando Olayiwola and I came to Baltimore for the dissertation defense of Bernadette Thomas.  Bernadette is a family nurse practitioner and also our medical director at our CHC of Clinton site.  She is completing the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Her dissertation is titled “Improving Blood…

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