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About our Executive Team
Alfreda D.
Turner
President &
CEO
Alfreda D.
Turner has served as President & CEO of Charter
Oak Health Center, Inc., in Hartford,
Connecticut for over twenty years. Charter Oak,
with thirteen
sites throughout the city, is Hartford's largest
federally qualified community health center
(FQHC). Charter Oak provides care to approximately 25,000 residents of
the Greater Hartford area, generating in
excess of 101,000 visits annually. Ms. Turner earned her Bachelor's
degree from
Berea College
and a Master's in Public Health from the
University of Minnesota. She has also
completed Executive Health Care Management and
Advanced Management Programs at Harvard
University; Johns Hopkins University; and the
University of California, Los Angeles.
Ms. Turner taught at the
University of
Louisville under a joint appointment while
working as a Public Health Coordinator with the
Veteran's
Administration. She has also served as Adjunct
Faculty at the University of Indiana Southeast
Campus.
Ms. Turner's leadership extends to a number of
professional, volunteer and advisory boards. She
is the
current Chairperson of the Community Health
Network managed care organization Board of
Directors,
Treasurer of the Black Women's Health Council,
past Chairperson of the Community Health Center
Association of Connecticut, and a member of the
Community Advisory Board for St. Francis
Hospital and
Medical
Center. She is a member of the United
Healthcare National Federally Qualified Health
Center Advisory Group, a Director at Billings
Forge, and a Cooperator at St. Francis Hospital
and Medical Center.
In recognition of her contributions to the field
of community health, Ms. Turner has received a
number
of awards and accolades, including a Governor's
Merit Award, the C. E. A Winslow Award from the
Connecticut Public Health Association, and was
inducted as a Kentucky Colonel. She was also
awarded the 2007 Betsy K. Cooke Grassroots MVP
Award and 2010 Grassroots Advocacy Hall of Fame
Award from the National Association of Community
Health Centers, the 2010 Bethel Center Humane
Services Unlimited Love Humanitarian Award, and
the 2010 Magic Maker Award from My Sister’s
Place. In December 2009, Ms. Turner
was featured in USA Today on the impact of the
healthcare reform debate on health providers.
That
same month, Ms. Turner was invited to the White
House Press Conference with President Obama to
receive word that
Charter Oak was one of only 85 health centers in
the country chosen to receive Facility
Investment
Program funding under the federal Recovery Act.
Charter Oak's award was $10 million to expand
and renovate its main site at 21 Grand Street,
the single largest infusion of federal dollars
for FQHC capital
infrastructure improvement in the state. This
award followed over $1.3 million of federal
grant awards
received in early 2009 for capital improvement
and program expansion for a grand total of $11.3
million
in new
funding to the City of Hartford.
Ms. Turner
has an interest in holistic health, a real
curiosity about herbal medicine, and is
committed to the elimination of disparities in
health outcomes for all people.
Thomas J.
Morrison, III
Sr. VP of
Finance, CFO
Thomas
Morrison has served as the Senior Vice President
of Finance/Chief Financial Officer since 2008.
He brings to COHC over 27 years of senior
financial management experience, both private
sector and not-for-profit based. Recently, Mr.
Morrison has been CFO of an organization with
operating revenues in excess of $500 million and
school construction exceeding $700 million, the
City of Hartford, while serving on multiple
boards and advancing many community endeavors.
Mr. Morrison holds an MBA in Finance from
Columbia University and passed the New York
State CPA Exam and experience requirements
decades ago. He has also served as City
Manager-Administrator in multiple cities in New
Jersey before arriving in Connecticut. He
serves on the Board of Directors for the Knox
Foundation, as well as the Advisory Boards of
the Greater Hartford Urban League and the
Greater Hartford Arts Council. Mr. Morrison also
has decades of community development experience
in urban communities, stretching from Bedford
Stuyvesant Restoration Development as a Vice
President in Brooklyn to Newark, Plainfield and
East Orange in New Jersey. He has lectured at
classes in Urban Development at schools such as
MIT and at Symposiums for the Graduate Program
at the University of Hartford.
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