Last year, I heard a powerful song by a fairly unknown music entitled, “It Will All Be Perfect”. I’ve spent my life just looking for a place that I belong And no matter what I try to do, something always has gone wrong No one’s taken time to know me and still loved me like you do There’s no one in this world I’ll ever love as much as you Still there’s a shame that’s deep within me I keep…
Writing blog posts for the Community Health Center, is generally pretty interesting. I get to write about a wide array of topics from snow removal and construction to nurse practitioner residency programs and diabetic retinopathy. Sometimes times, it can also be really fun to go out and gather information for a blog post, and today was one of those days. I went over to the Farmer’s Market on Main Street in Middletown, sponsored in part, by CHC. I’ve always loved going…
As the State of Connecticut works on balancing its budget, there are changes to the dental services that adult Medicaid patients can receive. As an example, effective July 1st periodic oral exams and dental cleanings are now limited to once every year instead of every six months for healthy adults. What does this mean? Well, if you’ve been coming in every six months to have your teeth checked and cleaned, you’re probably going to have to wait longer between checkups. …
Monday was National HIV Testing Day and last week there was an article in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report about the results of an expanded HIV Testing Initiative last year. Approximately 20% of the estimated 1.2 million persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the United States at the end of 2008 were not aware of their infection The report describes the results of nearly 2.8 million HIV tests from October 2007 until September 2010. Nearly 30,000 people…
Conversations on Health Care focuses this week on Utah’s innovative health insurance exchange. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Governor Gary Herbert about the creation of their exchange in 2007, why it’s unique and what lessons other states might take from Utah as they begin planning their own exchanges.
Today, my Facebook wall and my Twitter feed is full of reminders that today is National HIV Testing Day. Last week, we provided testing at our sites in Meriden and New Britain. Today we are providing testing at our site in Meriden. Have you been tested? The importance of testing was brought home to me in an email that Dr. Marwan Haddad sent to CHC staff working on promoting National HIV Testing Day. I am sharing part of that email…