New Horizon’s Clothesline Project Presentation is Tomorrow!

New Horizon’s Clothesline Project Presentation is Tomorrow!

WHAT: Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC) and their Domestic Violence service, New Horizons, are hosting an event to raise awareness about Domestic violence, specifically in the Middletown area.  The event will consist of a few women speaking about their own experiences with domestic violence followed by a presentation of the Clothesline project. The Clothesline project involves a display of dozens of t-shirts, which have been individually decorated with thoughts, emotions and artwork by victimized women who have been sheltered at…

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Visit from Singapore!

Visit from Singapore!

Hello everyone, Happy National Candy day! Yes, another excuse to satisfy our sweet tooth cravings. 🙂 My name is Palak Shelat and I am one of the AmeriCorps members serving within the Telemedicine based Diabetic Retinopathy Program. Last Friday, November 1st, it was a pleasure to meet with Dr. Tien Wong, a Provost Chair Professor, Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at the National University of Singapore, and a Group Director in Research at Singapore Health Services from the Community…

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Steven Spear, MIT Sloane School of Management

Steven Spear, MIT Sloane School of Management

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Steven Spear, PhD, Senior Lecturer at the Sloane School of Management at MIT and international expert on applying LEAN systems created by Toyota to improve production output, cost and quality. Dr. Spear addresses the potential LEAN systems have for improving the work flow in health care as well as impacting cost containment and improving outcomes.

Who are you, Shannon Bali?

Who are you, Shannon Bali?

Who are you? Tell me something interesting about yourself. My name is Shannon Bali; I was born and raised in Connecticut and I love all things New England, including the humidity in the summer and ten-foot snow drifts in the winter. I recently graduated from the UConn School of Social Work with my Master’s degree and a focus in Community Organization and International Issues in Social Work. I spent my last semester of school in Guatemala where I worked as…

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Don’t Let the Affordable Care Act Scare You This Halloween!

Don’t Let the Affordable Care Act Scare You This Halloween!

Every Fall, the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce (founded in 1895!!) organizes a Business Expo that takes place at the Crowne Plaza in Cromwell. The Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC) is a member of the chamber and has participated in the Expo for 15 years. By partaking in the Expo, each organization is assigned a booth and able to present their business or a message to the hundreds of people who attend the daylong event. Currently, the Chamber has over 2,000…

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Dr. Dennis Charney, Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dr. Dennis Charney, Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Dennis Charney, Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York. Dr. Charney speaks about the major redesign underway to transform their health system and medical training models to include big data analytics, genomics and other new technologies to improve the practice of medicine at Mount Sinai and better prepare the health practitioners of the future