Life has not always been easy for Nicole Dzikiewicz. Her road to a happy family has taken many twists and turns. In 2008, she became a patient of CHC at our Meriden office and started seeing Dr. Patel. “CHC connected me with so many resources.” When she became pregnant, she took part in our Prenatal Program with Dr. Ozbek, Amy Gagliardi, Holly Naud and the prenatal team in Middletown. It was a high risk pregnancy Nicole worked closely with the…
Here is a letter to all the friends of Community Health Center, on the occasion of our 40th Anniversary: Dear Friends, Forty years ago today, May 1st, a group of Wesleyan University students and Middletown community activists came together under the banner that Health Care is a Right, Not a Privilege. We were drawn together because our friends, family and neighbors needed health care that was accessible, affordable and responsive to their needs. It wasn’t an easy road; there were no…
On Thursday Evening, the Middletown Rotary Club presented the Paul Harris Fellow aware to CHC CEO Mark Masselli. Here are some details of the award as well as comments from Patti Anne Vassia, first woman Middletown Rotary Club member as she presented the award: Mark Masselli, President and Founder of the Community Health Center, was recently presented a Paul Harris Fellow by the Middletown Rotary Club. The Paul Harris Fellow is presented to community members and Rotarians who have made a…
During the designated week of AmeriCorps service across the country, March 10-18, many different groups organized service projects that promoted the week’s theme, “AmeriCorps Works”. At the Community Health Center, Inc. there are fourteen driven individuals that make up our HealthCorps team who volunteered their time at a CT Special Olympics event, Middletown Minds in Motion, serving lunch at St. Vincent de Paul’s, and concluded the week in New Haven at a “Healthy Living for Kids” event, Recess Rocking the…
It was around thirty years ago. I was a college student teaching at an elementary school in Ohio. I had grown up in the Northeast and had never been in a tornado drill, but there I was, as the sirens sounded. Fortunately, the young students all knew what to do and the teacher whose class I was helping with quickly led me through the motions of the drill. This morning, there was a state wide tornado drill across Virginia. I…
Today is February 29, 2012. Other than the fact that we are in the midst of a leap year, celebrating this extra day in February, there is also something very important taking place today across the globe. Today is the fifth international Rare Disease Day. For such a short month, February has a lot of significant occurrences that receive enormous amounts of attention; Black History Month, American Heart Month, and the ever so popular Valentine’s Day are just a few…