Nurse Announcement , Nurse Award and Nursing Accolades

Nurse Announcement , Nurse Award and Nursing Accolades

The following is an email from our President and CEO, Mark Masselli and our Senior Vice President and Clinical Director, Margaret Flinter, adapted for the blog: Greetings, Today, amidst much celebration about nursing here at the Health Center and around the country we are proud to announce that Mary Blankson will become our new Chief Nursing Officer. Mary who has been working at CHC for over eight years and most recently has been the OSMD for New London County will…

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Nurses Leading the Way

Nurses Leading the Way

The following is an email from our Chief Nursing Officer, Bernadette Thomas, adapted for the blog: Good Morning, As you know, we are in the midst of celebrating National Nurse’s Week, which runs annually from Tuesday, May 6th through Monday, May 12th. This year’s theme, “Nurses Leading the Way,” is especially appropriate at this time, and especially for our nurses at CHC. Nurses at CHC are always leading the way to realize the highest quality patient care. In the last…

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CT Mission of Mercy Free Dental Care Event

CT Mission of Mercy Free Dental Care Event

Since its inception in 2008, the CT Foundation for Dental Outreach and the CT State Dental Association have held Connecticut’s Mission of Mercy project, known as CTMOM, in a different areas of the state. During the weekend of April 25th, 2014, the XL Center in Hartford, CT was transformed into CTMOM’s large dental clinic. Each year, the two-day clinic provides free dental care to uninsured and underinsured patients.    The patients, seen on a walk-in basis, had been waiting in line…

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Dr. H. Jack Geiger, Physicians for Social Responsibility

Dr. H. Jack Geiger, Physicians for Social Responsibility

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. H. Jack Geiger, co-founder of Physicians for Human Rights and Physicians for Social Responsibility, both of which went on to earn the Nobel Prize for Peace. Dr. Geiger is considered the founder of the Community Health Center movement in this country and discusses his decades of activism for equality in health care. 

Welcoming Spring & Growing a Bond

Welcoming Spring & Growing a Bond

“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.” English Poet Alfred Austin sums it up beautifully; with spring 2 weeks behind schedule this year, the excitement to get working on CHC’s rooftop gardens was building. This week we started the 3rd season of community garden plots in the newer “Peace & Health” Middletown facility of Community Health Center,…

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March for Babies

March for Babies

This past weekend, some of the AmeriCorps members participated in the March for Babies kick-off event located at Rentschler Field in East Hartford. March for Babies, originally called March of Dimes, is the very first charitable walking event in the United States beginning back in 1970. Since the beginning, the event has raised over 2 billion dollars and these proceeds help fund research to prevent pre-mature births, birth defects and infant mortality. The kick-off held over 400 people this year. Most of…

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