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…
This morning all of Community Health Center’s staff received an email from our Chief Medical Officer, Veena Channamasetty M.D. announcing the new onsite medical director for our Nowalk and Stamford sites. Read on for the announcement: I’m excited to announce the selection of Nicole Seagriff as the new OSMD for Norwalk and Stamford. Nicole has been with CHC since 2011 when she joined the Family Nurse Practitioner Residency Program in Meriden and after graduation joined the Norwalk Site. Nicole has…
CT Mission of Mercy 2015: by Julia Sisson Every year, dental care providers throughout Connecticut gather at the Mission of Mercy, a free clinic offering services to patients both insured and uninsured. The event is only two days long, but patients line up days in advance and come from as far as Maine to take part in the services provided. This year, Mission of Mercy set up its clinic in Danbury at the Western Connecticut State University’s Westside campus, with a…
For the fifth and final day of Americorps Week 2015, our group traveled to a construction site in New Haven to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Haven. 603 Sherman Parkway is Habitat for Humanity’s 11th build and is expected to be completed by early summer! A group of us had previously volunteered in October with Habitat, helping to paint and refurbish the central warehouse. We were excited to get our hands dirty, brave the cold weather, and…
During our week of service, the AmeriCorps members of the Community Health Center took some time to help both medical and non-medical services throughout the state. We spent time honing our less-used skills of light construction, furniture moving, and even resume building: though this was fun for us, it was certainly a great burden lifted from the shoulders of the organizations we visited. On Wednesday, March 11, we headed to Wallingford to lend our hands to Master’s Manna, a food…