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Sharing a creative passion
MIDDLETOWN - When the music starts and all hands and feet are in place, participants in the swing dance classes at Vinnie's Jump & Jive can't help but bounce with anticipation.
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Health center pharmacy offers better care
MERIDEN — The new Walgreens pharmacy at the Community Health Center on State Street has been open for a little over a month and pharmacist Jonah Tyler believes it is already making a difference.
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Head start on clean teeth
Before her patients left for lunch, to be followed by nap time, Mary Ann Llinas quizzed them.
"When are you supposed to brush?" she said, offering new SpongeBob SquarePants toothbrushes as rewards for a correct response. The preschool boys were quiet.
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Vinnie's dance studio unites, community tangos
Jen Alexander '88 co-founded a dance studio, but you might not guess it by the way she talks. She insists she is not a "great" dancer, and instead prefers the term "learning." It wasn't until she danced her heart out to a swing band with her husband Mark Masselli at her 2000 college reunion that the two became fascinated with the idea of making dance more accessible to the Middletown community.
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Masselli, an honored employer
When Eric Watts got deployed to serve in Iraq, he had many reasons for concern. However, there was one important facet Watts never had to worry about. He knew that when he came home, his job at the Community Health Center on Main Street would still be waiting for him.
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Program goal: health care for homeless
Dr. Susan Hadley started volunteering at area homeless shelters year ago. While caring for the homeless can be challenging, she said the reward of the work could be immediate.
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Health center pharmacy will be a bargain
Patients at the Community Health Center on State Street have access to comprehensive care that is about
to become a bit more convenient.
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Dentist hoping to make needy kids smile
Children without insurance, or with HUSKY, a state-funded health insurance plan for poor
children, have a difficult time getting dental care. In Middlesex County, there is only one place
to go: the Community Health Center, which has offices on Main Street.
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Fighting AIDS/HIV one pill at a time
Mark Gaffey's medication regimen hasn't changed much in seven years - three times a day he consumes 12 pills to control HIV. And his pill count is considered light.
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CHC and Middletown school officials to fight obesity
The Community Health Center has teamed up with the North End’s Macdonough Elementary School to kick off an obesity and diabetes prevention program that will help families with at-risk children find ways to eat healthier and exercise more.
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She keeps health center on cutting-edge of care
Hidden among the historic buildings on Main Street in the North End is a non-profit that is changing the way Connecticut thinks about health care.
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Grant to raise awareness
The McKesson Foundation, a division of Moore Medical, presented a $25,000 check to the New Britain Community Health Center Wednesday. The grant will be used for the center’s Healthy Living Campaign, which focuses on adolescent health.
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Grant to support mobile dental care for children
The Community Health Center has won a $140,000 grant to fund a mobile dentistry program
that will bring preventive dental services to needy children in Middlesex County.
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Grant will boost dental care for the very young
For needy young children with aching or neglected teeth, help will soon be on the way. The community
Health Center has received a $140,000 grant to help launch a mobile dental unit tending to needy
preschoolers in Middlesex County.
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Linking up to expand dental health
The Dental Center of Stamford is one of the great independent nonprofit
success stories in Stamford and, more recently, in Norwalk, providing oral
health care for thousands who cannot afford it.
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Dental Center, Middletown firm to merge
The Dental Center of Stamford is merging with the Community
Health Center Inc. of Middletown, which is expected to increase dental services
to indigent and uninsured people in Stamford and Norwalk, officials said.
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Urban street dance is coming to Middletown
Have you heard of b-boy dancing? It's the original term for the urban street dance.
It began in the streets of New York City in the late 1970s, but disc jockey Kool Herc may have been the first person to use the term bboy in 1969. The media have called it break dancing, but practitioners prefer the term b-boy or b-girl dancing.
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Access to prescription assistance programs widened
When patients at Community Health Center Inc. can't afford medicine prescribed by the doctor, a full-time clinic employee helps them find programs that provide the drugs free or at deep discounts.
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Drug coverage help gets new ally in state
Klaus Haidinger of New Britain is retired, has no insurance and can’t afford a doctor. He has diabetes, high blood pressure, and chronic heart problems. He says if it weren’t for the medication provided by the Community Health Center, he might not be living.
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Health center celebrates national health center week
In celebration of National Community Health Center Week, employees and local kids took a break from the heat to hoot and pitch balls at Middletown Community Health Center higher-ups and send them squealing into a dunk tank.
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Agency branch leader named
A nonprofit group that provides reduced-cost health care to thousands yearly has promoted a Meriden woman to lead its New Britain branch.
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Familiar face in new role
In his latest incarnation, Alejandro Melendez-Cooper leads the region's largest health organization after the hospitals.
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Meriden site gets new director
Meriden site welcomes new director from Lowell, Mass.
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CHC gets $739,000 federal grant
A city-based agency will be receiving a federal grant to provide health and medical services to individuals in area homeless shelters.
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Doctors work with uninsured recognized
New Britain Partners in Health, part of a larger national program, held the reception at Trinity-on-Main to recognize the contributions 24 local physicians have made to treat the uninsured.
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Explosion ushers in TopOff 3
A simulated explosion at Fort Trumbull on Monday afternoon set off a terrorism response drill that rallied everyone from firefighters in New London to government agencies in London, England.
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Divorce can lead to escalating violence
Divorce proceedings can become heated and emotional, which could lead to various forms of domestic violence such as verbal, emotional and physical abuse.
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Wanted: Men to contribute funds for abused women
In an effort to raise awareness and funds, 100 men are being sought to take a stand against domestic violence in Middlesex County.
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