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Rooftop Garden Club CHC Dinner

Rooftop Garden Club CHC Dinner

The Garden Club of Middletown collaborates each year with the MARC Community Resource, Inc. The Middletown Club and MARC joined forces to maintain six different plots from May to September.  Every Tuesday for the past several months in the afternoon fourteen to twenty members meet at the CHC Main building to be whisked away to the rooftop garden. This year they planted sunflowers, tomatoes, green beans, carrots, and much more for their rooftop dinners and St. Vincent DePaul. Although many…

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Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention

Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention

This week on Conversations on Health Care hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since 2009. Dr. Frieden discusses the most pressing challenges at the CDC including antibiotic-resistant infections, the opioid abuse epidemic and the recent Ebola epidemic as well as the efforts underway to combat these public health threats.

Supreme Week

Supreme Week

An email to CHC Staff, adapted for the blog: Greetings This has been a great week for equality in our country.  Yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the subsidies in the Affordable Care Act so that no matter what state you live in, you can continue to access affordable health insurance. Today they issued their ruling that everyone is entitled to marriage, no matter what your sexual orientation is or the state you live in. Every day, we work hard to…

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Juneteenth, 2015

Juneteenth, 2015

South Carolina. The first thing that always comes to my mind is my longtime friend, Lillian “Reba” Moses, daughter of a sharecropper and co-founder of Community Health Center. Reba was born in Florence, South Carolina and she made her way north as part of a migration for better opportunity for herself and her family. While a place of hard times, she always fondly remembered her days growing up in Florence and the influence that the church, prayer and faith had…

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1st Annual Summer Dinner for Rooftop Garden Club

1st Annual Summer Dinner for Rooftop Garden Club

The Community Health Center, Inc. rooftop garden comes to life each spring by thawing itself out after the harsh winters of New England weather, and awakens for spring. The Middletown Garden Club is welcomed to the rooftop to plant and weed every Tuesday from now until August. They plant an array of seedlings and vegetables for their three annual dinners throughout the summer. Not only does the club garden each year, but also extends an invitation to MARC Community Resources…

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World No Tobacco Day

World No Tobacco Day

Did you know that the global tobacco epidemic kills nearly 6 million people each year? More than 10% of these deaths are of non-smokers dying from second-hand smoke. May 31st, 2015 marked World No Tobacco Day. Each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners highlight the health risks of tobacco use and advocate for decreasing tobacco consumption. Did you know that CHCI’s patient population includes 18,000 active smokers? Here at CHCI, we are proud to be taking steps…

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