National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Well, it has been a long month with a lot going on, so I’ve put off things that I’m not excited about until the last minute. I guess that is something we all do, especially people over fifty. You...
View ArticleMen’s Health
Sunday is Father’s Day, so this week is Men’s Health Week and this month is Men’s Health Month. Now men’s health isn’t an issue just for fathers, all men should pay more attention to their health....
View ArticleNational Childhood Obesity Month
National Childhood Obesity Month: Something that needs to be addressed during EVERY month of the year! Living life in the eyes of a child does not include daily calorie counting, cardio exercise, and...
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Project Echo, Google+, Patient Education, and a Patient Centered Medical Home.
What happens when you ask a social media manager for a Patient Centered Medical Home to write about Project Echo®? You just might get a strange collection of thoughts drawn into a single blog post....
View ArticleSafe and Healthy Start to the New School Year!
October is coming to a close and the new school year feeling is fading into a sense of a routine. Children are enjoying their new classes, fall sports and activities are well under way, and the...
View ArticleStop Tuberculosis in your Lifetime
Every year, on March 24, people across the world generate awareness about the bacterial disease called Tuberculosis. Although a cure for this disease was discovered in 1882, close to 1.5 million people...
View ArticleAutism Awareness: An Easy Target
I was a little hesitant towards writing a blog post reflecting on Autism Awareness month seeing that April only has a few days left, but I was given a little motivation from Aldon Hynes, the social...
View ArticleHappy Women’s Health Week
I found a quote by the poet, Maya Angelou, that I thought suited the beginning of this post. “How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes” As we hit the halfway mark...
View ArticleRights, Respect, Responsibility
The month of May is used as a platform to promote National Teen Pregnancy Prevention. The United States has the highest rates of teenage pregnancy and teen births in the western industrialized world...
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Dr. Alice Chen Visit
The following piece was written by Jackie Wang, a HealthCorps Navigator at CHC, Inc. serving in the Quality Improvement Department. Last Friday, Community Health Center, Inc., was honored to host...
View ArticleWinter Blues and Other Stress
Monday morning was dark and rainy. The melting snow added to the problems as flooding started to spread across parts of Connecticut. It seemed like just about everyone I was talking with was having a...
View ArticlePollen Count Soars! (In Georgia… Coming Soon to Connecticut)
Channel 11 out of Atlanta is running an article that starts Tuesday’s pollen is the worst it has been all year long as levels have almost tripled since Monday. The latest pollen count is 2258, which...
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