Good Afternoon! Similar to the National Football League deciding to call last night’s Raiders v. Chargers game “Thursday Night Football”, this blog will be written as if it was Friday. In other words, welcome to my weekly SPOTLIGHT blog Monday Edition. For those new readers, I usually dedicate the Friday of every week to spotlight a member of the CHC team but AmeriCorps training got in the way this past Friday, so I had to postpone that post for today….
This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Ardis Dee Hoven, President of the American Medical Association, the largest and oldest organization in the nation representing medical professionals. Dr. Hoven discusses the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and its impact on the future of the practice of medicine in this country.
“Congratulations on your nomination as a White House Champion of Change for Public Health and Prevention! As a public health and prevention leader, you play a critical role in improving the health of your community… Your leadership is essential to moving our nation from a focus on sickness and disease to one that is based on wellness and prevention. Thank you for championing the improvement of health outcomes and reduction of health disparities; your efforts will have lasting effects on…
It isn’t everyday you get to be on the front lines of history being made. It isn’t everyday that you get to participate in an event that will help make people’s lives better. When you get to do both, at the same time, it is a special occasion. On Tuesday, October 1st, CHC assisted uninsured people in enrolling in new health insurance plans made available through AccessHealthCT. We had outreach and eligibility specialists, trained by AccessHealthCT helping people with the…
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.
What would you do with a trellis filled with concord grapes waiting to be picked? If you guessed why not make a few jars of homemade jelly then you are on the right track! Upon request, I assumed that making Jelly was a long process that required a special talent such as riding a uni-cycle or providing primary care services for 35 years in Middletown. It turns out that all you need is a basic recipe, access to a food processor, sugar,…