For a brief moment, I was five years old again in the small sandbox behind my house. I had my trucks moving around dirt as I built my marvelous edifice that would somehow make the world a better place. I glanced back at my desk and again became the older man, worried about health and finances, trying to do my job the best I can. Yet I have a great job. It is to write about people in the front…
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…
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…