Quality: The combined and unceasing efforts of everybody

Quality: The combined and unceasing efforts of everybody

Friday afternoon.  It has been a full week and my desk is still covered with things to follow up on.  So, I’m going to cover a few different important topics. Let’s start off with National Nurses Week.  It ended yesterday on Florence Nightingale’s birthday.  As a kid, I always thought of Florence Nightingale as the topic that the nice girls who would grow up and be suburban housewives chose to write reports about back in fifth grade when we studied…

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Celebrating Milestones

Celebrating Milestones

As the flood waters roll down the Mississippi, people fight for democracy around the globe and politicians struggle over difficult budget issues in Hartford and Washington, we can easily get overwhelmed.  It is important to try and keep things in perspective, so I look out my window at the tulips that are blooming in front of CHC’s behavioral health building, and the flag flying above the new building that is under construction a block away. Yesterday, CHC staff, together with…

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Donna Thompson, chief executive officer of Access Community Health Network in Chicago

Donna Thompson, chief executive officer of Access Community Health Network in Chicago

Conversations on Health Care focuses this week on the unique role of community health centers in integrating clinical excellence with education, training, and research. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Donna Thompson, RN, CEO of Access Community Health Network in Chicago, the country’s largest health center and developer of the first NIH funded research center devoted exclusively to studying health disparities. Be sure to check out @ACCESSHealth on Twitter as well, especially their tweets about #PinASister

Text4baby: The State Enrollment Contest.

Text4baby: The State Enrollment Contest.

Part of orientation for new employees at CHC is a bus tour of different sites we run around the state.  To some, it may seem repetitive.  How much difference is there, really between different waiting rooms or examination rooms?  Yet if you look a little more closely, you pick up little things here and there that you see at one site that you don’t see at another.  When I was at our Clinton site during the bus tour, a poster…

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Join us in celebrating Patricia Mik, RN, CHC’s “Nightingale Award 2011 recipient”

Join us in celebrating Patricia Mik, RN, CHC’s “Nightingale Award 2011 recipient”

The following is a message from Mark and Margaret about Patricia Mik, RN, CHC’s “Nightingale Award 2011 recipient”  Thursday evening in the ballroom of the Hartford Marriott, a thousand people gathered for the annual Nightingale Awards for Excellence in Nursing.  The Nightingale Awards ceremony is a collaborative effort, celebrated in four cities across Connecticut simultaneously, to celebrate outstanding nurses.   Mark and I would like you to join us in congratulating Patricia Mik, RN, of our “Wherever You Are” (W.Y.A) Healthcare for…

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“Our life is more than our work, and our work is more than our job.”

“Our life is more than our work, and our work is more than our job.”

It is an old union chant I learned decades ago and these days, as people struggle to find good jobs, it has come back to my mind.  Many people I know take jobs to pay the bills.  Their job aren’t really an important part of the greater work they want to do, and it is something they endure to be able to have the type of life they want. Others are more fortunate.  They view their work in terms of…

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