Barbara DiPietro, policy director for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.

Barbara DiPietro, policy director for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.

Conversations on Health Care focuses this week on the health care needs of the homeless. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Barbara DiPietro, who directs policy and advocacy for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, about delivering patient-centered, team-based, coordinated health care to those experiencing homelessness and how this fits into the larger healthcare system. If you wish to subscribe to the CHC Radio mailing list, please fill out this form:     join our mailing list…

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STD Awareness Month

STD Awareness Month

Okay.  I did it again.  I put off writing about important medical tests.  March was National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.  I waited until the end of the month to write about it, just as I imagine people have put off colorectal cancer screening.  As a quick reminder, you don’t have to get screened during National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.  You can get screened in any month. I did even worse in April.  April was STD Awareness Month and here we…

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Happy Birthday CHC is 39 today – May 1st

Happy Birthday CHC is 39 today – May 1st

A message from Mark and Margaret on the 39th anniversary of CHC: Greetings Margaret and I,  want to extend a Happy 39th Birthday wish to everyone at CHC! What a month leading up to May 1st – our construction projects in Stamford and New London finished up – thanks to Adele and Alejandro for their leadership along with the their team of staff who have been working to coordinate the project – also, thanks to the  staff who patiently go…

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Dr. Bernadette Thomas, DNP

Dr. Bernadette Thomas, DNP

It is with great joy that I share a blog post submitted by Margaret Flinter via her cellphone from Baltimore.  Thank you Margaret for submitting this:  Today Dr. Nwando Olayiwola and I came to Baltimore for the dissertation defense of Bernadette Thomas.  Bernadette is a family nurse practitioner and also our medical director at our CHC of Clinton site.  She is completing the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Her dissertation is titled “Improving Blood…

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Dr. John Wennberg, the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth College.

Dr. John Wennberg, the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth College.

This week on Conversations on Health Care, Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. John Wennberg whose research for the past 40 years has focused on variations in health care around the country and its implications on the individual, the community and the health care system as a whole. Dr. Wennberg is the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth and founder and director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, home…

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Building Healthier Communities

Building Healthier Communities

It seems easy to get lost in the day to day details of building healthier communities.  Getting patients to eat healthier, get more exercise and regularly take their medications can take up all of our attention.  If we pause to look at bigger picture issues, it is likely to be about getting funding for badly needed new facilities and overseeing the construction of such facilities.  Yet there are other, underlying issues that need to be addressed.  Can we get patients…

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