Marc Wetherhorn on CHC Radio

Marc Wetherhorn on CHC Radio

Wednesday afternoon at 4:30, Advocacy Director for the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) Marc Wetherhorn will be the guest of the Conversations on Health Care Radio Show on WESU. You can listen to the show as it is broadcast on WESU and join the online discussion using the #chcradio hashtag on Twitter or on TweetChat The tweets are also being displayed and saved on CoverItLive.  After the show completes, the link will provide an archive of the comments….

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Reflections for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Reflections for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

In 1944, according to an article in the New York Times, Martin Luther King, Jr. came to Connecticut as a young man to work on a tobacco farm.  In a letter to his father, he wrote, “After we passed Washington there was no discrimination at all. The white people here are very nice. We go to any place we want to and sit any where we want to.”  The article talks about how some believe that these experiences shaped the…

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CHC Opens School Based Health Center in Stamford

CHC Opens School Based Health Center in Stamford

This week, CHC opened a new school-based health center at Domus’ Trailblazers Academy and Stamford Academy in Stamford.  It will bring on-site medical and mobile dental care to approximately 300 middle and high school students. The center, located at 83 Lockwood Ave., is the first that CHC has opened in Fairfield County and one of only 20 throughout the state. Jane Hylan, our director of school health services observed, ““Prior to our opening this school-based health center, several students from…

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Helping People Feel Better

Helping People Feel Better

The British Medical Association’s head of science and ethics, Dr Vivienne Nathanson recent spoke with the BBC about how ‘happy hospitals’ can save money “What people sometimes forget is that while helping people to feel better during their hospital stay we can reduce their need for painkillers, their likelihood of getting some depression and perhaps not eating enough. “All of these things will limit their recovery and if we can speed people’s recovery, they have shorter time in hospital, shorter…

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Building Healthy Communities Online

Building Healthy Communities Online

Well, here we are.  My first blog post as Social Media Manager for Community Health Center’s new blog, Healthy Communities Online.  I’ve been blogging for many years with a lot of my focus on politics, education and journalism.  Much of this has really been around how to build healthy communities online, although I may not have been thinking about it in these terms as I was writing. When I heard that Community Health Centers, Inc. was looking for a social…

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