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…
The title of this blog post might not make sense to people that don’t use Twitter a lot, so let me explain. On Twitter, it is common to use a ‘hashtag’. This is an abbreviation preceded by a pound sign or ‘hash mark’. #FF is the hashtag for ‘Follow Friday’. Follow Friday is a tradition on Twitter of listing interesting other people to follow on Twitter. There are many people on Twitter, and it can be difficult to find someone…
Earlier this week, I received an email from Kerry Bamrick about CHC’s Nurse Practitioner Residency program: On Thursday, June 16,, 2011 Margaret Flinter and I were invited to Princeton, NJ to attend New Jersey’s Regional Action Coalition Meeting. New Jersey was selected as one of 5 pilot states in the Unites States to participate in the prestigious: Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action. The purpose of the action coalition is to guide the implementation of the recommendations of the Institute…
Last Sunday, WNPR in Connecticut joined the family of stations carrying Conversations on Health Care. The show continues to air on numerous other stations and be available on the CHCRadio website and iTunes. I will continue to post new shows here for people wishing to use other podcasting clients. The URL for the Podcast feed is http://community.chc1.com/category/chcradio/feed/ This week, Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with David Wessel, economics editor of the Wall Street Journal. He’ll give us his perspective…
Last night, I received an email from our Chief Medical Office, Dr. J. Nwando Olayiwola concerning the National HIV Testing Day Chat Series on Twitter. It is a weeklong set of chats with interesting speakers and an interesting set of topics. Various people from CHC will participate in some of the chats, and I’m disappointed that I missed a couple of the early chats. I realize that not everyone reading this blog is used to TweetChats, so I’m going to…
Last Saturday, I received an email from our clinical director, Margaret Flinter sharing her reflections on 30 years of HIV. It is a long, but very meaningful message, and I am posting it here in its entirety with her permission. – Aldon Good morning, everyone, Every once in a while, something causes us to stop and take a deep breath and reflect on momentous changes and challenges we have faced at CHC, in healthcare, and in our communities. I had…