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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…