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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Below is a guest blog post composed by Nicole Jarjura, Patient Navigator for Early Detection Colorectal Cancer Screening at CHC. As we all well know, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month, and is marked as a time when individuals, businesses, health care organizations (and even the National Football League) come together to promote awareness of the disease in many different ways. Some walk, some fundraise and some wear pink.CHC’s Early Detection Program would like to encourage all Middletown & Clinton…

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Today (10/11) is National Depression Screening Day

Today (10/11) is National Depression Screening Day

Several years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report predicting that depression would become the world’s leading cause of disability by the year 2020. A September 2012 study by the American Journal of Public Health noted that depression is now the number one cause of injury mortality in the United States. Just two years prior, depression was ranked 10th on this same list, but it has now surpassed car accidents for the dreaded top spot. Statistics such as…

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Up on the Rooftop at CHC

Up on the Rooftop at CHC

During the summer months, the rooftop at 675 Main Street provided a place for local students and community members to routinely visit the unique garden paradise while tending to their own vegetable and herb plants. Fall has arrived and the rooftop is expanding its community programming to now include weekly tours open to the public and Friday movie night for Macdonough students throughout October. Starting last Thursday, October 4, CHC has been promoting Rooftop garden tours open to anyone and…

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New Nurse Practitioner in Residency Profile – Jaclyn Jones

New Nurse Practitioner in Residency Profile – Jaclyn Jones

                     Meet Jaclyn Jones, a new Nurse Practitioner in Residency at CHC!     –          Can you tell us a bit about your educational background? B.A. Kinesiology from Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA MSN from Yale School of Nursing, New Haven, CT  –          What about joining CHC most excites you? Being a part of an organization that believes in a person’s right to health care and who also believes in training the next generation. –          If not seeing patients/serving at CHC…

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Gardening Culture at CHC

Gardening Culture at CHC

Gardening is fast-becoming an important part of what goes on at the Community Health Center, Inc. The health center has fostered a gardening culture for many years, but the last several months have seen a spike in activity due to the construction of the new building at 675 Main Street in Middletown. At the crown of this new building sits a tremendous rooftop garden, which features one of the largest self-sustaining living walls in the United States in addition to…

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Dr. Jeffery Brenner, Executive Director of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers

Dr. Jeffery Brenner, Executive Director of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Jeffery Brenner, Founder and Executive Director of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. Dr. Brenner speaks about the data-driven, “hotspotter” approach he developed to reduce health care costs by indentifying high-use patients and more effectively and efficiently addressing their multiple needs.