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What if Leopold Bloom worked at a Community Health Center?

June 16, 2011 Sofia Dupi

This morning, I awoke and tweeted a few lines from James Joyce’s Ulysses. After all, today is Bloomsday. Joyce’s Ulysses traced the wanderings of Leopold Bloom through Dublin on this day in 1904, and literary enthusiasts around the world celebrate this day in many different ways. NPR ran a story on people tweeting Ulysses, and I even added a line from Ulysses as I checked in at work on Foursquare. As I stopped to wish a coworker Happy Bloomsday, the…

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How Can We Inspire Health?

June 14, 2011 Sofia Dupi

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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A Memorial Day to Remember

May 31, 2011 Sofia Dupi

It started about a month and a half ago, those lunch time meetings to discuss CHC’s presence in the 2011 Middletown Memorial Day parade. Some of the stalwarts who had helped organize parades from years ago were joined by new people from Communications and our AmeriCorps teams. We bounced around ideas for the float, for t-shirts, and how we could best honor the men and women who served our country defending our freedom, especially, those who gave all. After exploring…

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The Gratitude PDSA

May 23, 2011 Sofia Dupi

Every day at 4 PM, I try to listen in to a leadership meeting about what is going on at CHC. Last week, a new idea was presented. At the annual Dental Staff dinner, there was a discussion about practicing gratitude. People who make an effort to regularly be grateful for what they have tend to be more optimistic and to spread joy. The idea was presented that the leadership team should make an effort to write down three things…

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Text4baby: The State Enrollment Contest.

May 10, 2011 Sofia Dupi

Part of orientation for new employees at CHC is a bus tour of different sites we run around the state. To some, it may seem repetitive. How much difference is there, really between different waiting rooms or examination rooms? Yet if you look a little more closely, you pick up little things here and there that you see at one site that you don’t see at another. When I was at our Clinton site during the bus tour, a poster…

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“Our life is more than our work, and our work is more than our job.”

May 5, 2011 Sofia Dupi

It is an old union chant I learned decades ago and these days, as people struggle to find good jobs, it has come back to my mind. Many people I know take jobs to pay the bills. Their job aren’t really an important part of the greater work they want to do, and it is something they endure to be able to have the type of life they want. Others are more fortunate. They view their work in terms of…

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