What are your chances of getting the flu this season? It’s the sort of question many of us think about this time of year. Being the geek that I am, I like to look at Google Flu Trends. They have a graph of reported flu activity, based on Google searches. They’ve found that certain searches can be a good indicator of actual flu activity. One thing that I find interesting about their data is that they have a graph of…
Meet Jaclyn Jones, a new Nurse Practitioner in Residency at CHC! – Can you tell us a bit about your educational background? B.A. Kinesiology from Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA MSN from Yale School of Nursing, New Haven, CT – What about joining CHC most excites you? Being a part of an organization that believes in a person’s right to health care and who also believes in training the next generation. – If not seeing patients/serving at CHC…
Gardening is fast-becoming an important part of what goes on at the Community Health Center, Inc. The health center has fostered a gardening culture for many years, but the last several months have seen a spike in activity due to the construction of the new building at 675 Main Street in Middletown. At the crown of this new building sits a tremendous rooftop garden, which features one of the largest self-sustaining living walls in the United States in addition to…
CHC often plays hosts to guests from various organizations around the country. They come to discuss our programs, model of care, facilities, and many other ways that CHC can work with other organizations. We often photograph these guests and are there is now a Facebook Album of pictures of some of our guests. There are pictures of guests from Health Partners of Western Ohio, Community Health Care in Tacoma, Washington, Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Mississippi. It isn’t just…
Regardless of your opinion on war and American intervention in foreign affairs, odds are you support and respect the citizens who put their lives on the line for the United States of America. The thought of Veterans – many of whom suffer from chronic physical and mental ailments – living without access to basic health care is not a pleasant one, though this is a reality that many former members of the American armed forces face in today’s world. These…
This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Jeffery Brenner, Founder and Executive Director of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. Dr. Brenner speaks about the data-driven, “hotspotter” approach he developed to reduce health care costs by indentifying high-use patients and more effectively and efficiently addressing their multiple needs.