Diabetes Friendly Cooking Tips and Recipes

Diabetes Friendly Cooking Tips and Recipes

 A guest post by Kara Ellis, MS, RD Nearly 26 million Americans are currently living with Diabetes, and the American Diabetes Association estimates that someone is diagnosed with Diabetes every 17 seconds.  Last month was Diabetes Awareness Month, so the Community Health Center geared up to help take action.  On two separate days in November the CHC of New Britain andMeridenset up a Diabetes awareness booth. The Registered Dietitian, Diabetes Educator, and Pharmacist and pharmacy residents teamed up for question…

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Know your status!

Know your status!

I must say that last week was quite an eye-opening experience for myself and the other AmeriCorps members. You see, a few months ago we introduced ourselves to Oasis, Community Health Center’s HIV/AIDS clinic. They received us so warmly and we immediately knew that we wanted to become more involved with them. We quickly said ‘yes’ when Kasey Harding, director of HIV services at Oasis, asked us if we would be interested in helping out with their annual World AIDS Day affair that…

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Waterbury Outreach

Waterbury Outreach

Over the past couple of weeks AmeriCorps members and Access to Care Coordinators have teamed up to do outreach spanning all sections of Waterbury, to inform the public about our newest Community Health Center, which has opened at 51 North Elm Street in Waterbury, CT. As you may or may not know, the city of Waterbury covers an area of approximately 29 sq miles and has a population of approximately 111,000 people.  The city is quite diverse and varies greatly from section…

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Healthy Examples

Healthy Examples

When you visit a Community Health Center site, you can expect to be seen by a medical provider who can provide you with top quality primary care.  Yet there is much more to our health care than simply getting the care we need during a checkup.  We all need to adopt healthier lifestyles and the staff of CHC provide good examples of this. Last week, several CHC providers and friends participated in the 75th Annual Manchester Road Race.  Other employees…

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Annual Thanksgiving Meal Support For CHC Families

Annual Thanksgiving Meal Support For CHC Families

Each Year St Pius X Church in Middletown, CT  in collaboration with the Middletown/Clinton Prenatal/Medical Departments offer a Thanksgiving feast for families in need.  Hurricane Irene, the unusual snow storm in October and the economy have impacted the amount of donations typically made to our state’s food banks and other charitable organizations and all have felt the crunch.  Although we were concerned about how this might affect the Annual Thanksgiving Meal Support for our families, the generosity of parishioners from…

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Dr. Sanjeev Arora, founder of the Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO).

Dr. Sanjeev Arora, founder of the Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO).

Conversations focuses this week on an innovative model of care that’s linking primary care providers with specialists in rural and underserved areas of the country. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Sanjeev Arora, founder of Project ECHO®, about how the ECHO model has the potential to increase access, improve health outcomes, and support primary care providers in caring for complex conditions.