What’s New at CHC

27 Aug, 2021 - For over a year and a half the pandemic has drastically impacted the lives of billions of people around the world. 

23 Aug, 2021 - Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC) has been awarded $2.2M over five years from the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) to provide telehealth-based training and support to primary care providers in rural, frontier, and other underserved areas of the U.S. CHC is one of nine awardees nationally, and the only Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) […]

17 Aug, 2021 - Originally posted at The Hartford Courant.

07 Aug, 2021 - Originally posted at The Hartford Courant Connecticut’s steadily increasing vaccination rate and our return to gathering in public, however cautiously, has made the arrival of summer especially sweet this year. There is so much more to appreciate than the warmer weather and longer days. The once-unremarkable sight of multiple generations of a family sharing a […]

04 Aug, 2021 - Originally posted at NBC Connecticut Homeless shelter directors are hoping free, on-site Covid-19 testing will return to their centers in light of the delta variant. It was a resource they had through the pandemic up until about a month ago, and they say it’s critical in preventing a potential outbreak. “Now we’re back to square […]

03 Aug, 2021 - Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 CHC College Scholarship Program. The awardees earned scholarships to help cover their educational studies. The program is geared towards undergraduate students attending college or university in associates or bachelor’s degree programs during the 2021-2022 academic year and are children of or […]

29 Jul, 2021 - Originally posted at NBC Connecticut The more contagious delta variant threatens a fuller reopening of offices and schools, but regular testing could help catch these cases before they spread. However, there are no more mass testing sites in Connecticut.   “We were conducting over 200,000 tests a week. It got as low as 50,000 tests a […]

27 Jul, 2021 - Originally posted at The Hartford Courant

12 Jul, 2021 - April Joy Damian, PhD, MSc, CHPM, PMP, has been named Vice President and Director of the Weitzman Institute. Dr. Damian, a widely published and highly respected researcher, joined Community Health Center, Inc. in May 2019 as Weitzman’s Associate Director. Dr. Damian now leads a team of more than 50 researchers and education specialists, with programs reaching […]

14 Jun, 2021 - Originally posted on ctpost.com Though the pandemic has slowed in Connecticut with continued low infection rates, the Community Health Center’s widely listened to radio show has not missed a beat. And this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci returns for another interview.