Innovation and Training the Next Generation

Innovation and Training the Next Generation

One thing that attracted me to CHC was its commitment to innovation and training the next generation of health care providers.  They go hand in hand.  As new innovations are discovered staff needs to learn about them and you wouldn’t want to train the next generation of health care providers on old approaches that are no longer considered a best practice. CHC has several important programs to help accomplish these goals, like the Weitzman Symposium, and the Conversations on Health…

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Project ECHO at CHC

Project ECHO at CHC

The following is a guest post from Dr. Marwan Haddad MD, MPH, Medical Director of HIV, HCV, and Buprenorphine Services at Community Health Center, Inc. This Friday January 20th is the launch of the very cutting edge, state of the art, evidence-based program CHC Project ECHO® Hepatitis C/HIV. Project ECHO® stands for Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes and is a model that was developed at the University of New Mexico initially to extend Hepatitis C care and management to the…

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Dr. Eric Topol, Cardiologist, Geneticist and Director of the Scripps Translational Institute.

Dr. Eric Topol, Cardiologist, Geneticist and Director of the Scripps Translational Institute.

Conversations speaks this week with Dr. Eric Topol, Director of the Scripps Translational Institute and author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care. Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Topol about the pivotal role genomics and telemedicine is having on health care, and the potential for a health care revolution with these emerging technologies.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service

Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service

The following is a blog post by Diana Desmornes, an AmeriCorps Member working out of our Fairfield County Offices. On Saturday January 14, 2012, CHC AmeriCorps members joined the Stamford Community to honor   Dr. King’s Legacy. We participated in a variety of community service projects, ranging from helping at soup kitchens and homeless shelters to playing bingo with the elderly. We were not only encouraged to honor him through community service; we were also reminded, not too long ago, blacks…

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The following is a message from CHC President and CEO to the staff of CHC: Today,  is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr  Day and we take a moment to reflect on the life of a great man. He would be great if he only spoke truth to power on the issue of Civil Rights in America, but he did so much more. He spoke out against our governments involvement in war  and most eloquently about the economic inequalities that exist between…

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Helping Get the New Year Off to a Great Start

Helping Get the New Year Off to a Great Start

Well, here we are, two weeks into the New Year.  Middletown saw a great kick off to the new year with Middnight on Main and many of us have made resolutions about how we’ll make this year better than the last. Unfortunately, too often we start the New Year with the best intentions, but end up failing to achieve our goals.  One thing that can help us achieve our goals is getting together with a group of people all working…

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