HealthCorps Navigator Profile – Jackie Wang

HealthCorps Navigator Profile – Jackie Wang

 Meet Jackie Wang, a HealthCorps Navigator serving in Quality Improvement  at CHC, Inc. ! –          Can you tell us a bit about your educational background? University of Michigan, BS in Biochemistry, graduated in 2012. –          What about joining CHC most excites you? The chance to meet and work with so many interesting people. –          If not seeing patients/serving at CHC you would rather be _____________? Trying new restaurants or curling up with a good book. –          What musical artist currently dominates your…

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Help-Portrait 2012 – Middletown

Help-Portrait 2012 – Middletown

The Community Health Center, Inc. will be hosting its inaugural version of Help-Portrait on Saturday, December 8th from 10am until 4pm. Founded by Celebrity Photographer Jeremy Cowart, Help-Portrait is a community of photographers coming together across the world to use their photography skills to give back to their local community. As the holiday season approaches in December, photographers around the world will be grabbing their cameras, finding people in need and taking their picture. When the prints are ready, the…

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Dan Hawkins, Vice President for Federal, State and Public Affairs, National Association of Community Health Centers

Dan Hawkins, Vice President for Federal, State and Public Affairs, National Association of Community Health Centers

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dan Hawkins, Senior Vice President for Federal, State and Public Affairs at the National Association of Community Health Centers. Mr. Hawkins discusses how community health centers are poised to take on a majority of the newly-insured once the Affordable Care Act is fully implemented

Dr. Alice Chen Visit

Dr. Alice Chen Visit

The following piece was written by Jackie Wang, a HealthCorps Navigator at CHC, Inc. serving in the Quality Improvement Department.      Last Friday,  Community Health Center, Inc., was honored to host Alice Huan-mei Chen, M.D., M.P.H. Dr. Chen is the Chief Integration Officer at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), the Director of the Center for Innovation in Access and Quality at SFGH, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF). At SFGH, Dr. Chen cares…

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The CHC Model of Care

The CHC Model of Care

Saturday, CHC President and CEO Mark Masselli sent an email which illustrates the CHC Model of Care nicely wrapped up in the events of a single day at CHC: Wow – what a Friday at CHC – our model of care continues to draw people to the work we are doing. The morning started off with Grand Rounds with Bill Rubenstein, Commissioner of Consumer Protection for the State of Connecticut. Bill’s Department is overseeing the implementation of the Medical Marijuana…

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World AIDS Day, 2012

World AIDS Day, 2012

This morning, I received an email from Dr. Marwan Haddad that he had sent to his co-workers at CHC yesterday and that our Chief Medical Officer forwarded to me.  It captures beautifully both the importance of the battle against HIV and what makes CHC such a special place. Dear All, Tomorrow is World AIDS Day. It is a day to remember all those we have lost to this terrible disease, those we knew and those millions we did not know…

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