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Current News:	August 2007 National Association of Community Health Center's Access Granted: The Primary Care Payoff Read More May 2007 Federally Qualified Health Centers: A Comunity Solution for CT Health Care Reform Read More April 2007 The Impact of Health Centers and Community-Affiliated Health Plans on Emergency Department Use Released by: National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) and the Association of Community-Affiliated Plans (ACAP) Read More Community Health Center Week, August 7-11, 2006 Charter Oak Health Center will be hosting various events to celebrate National Community Health Center Week. The celebration will end with a Block Party on August 11 with local legislators. Call the center for more information and an up-to-date list of events. Connecticut's Community Health Center Facts Sheet Read More
Background:	Connecticut's Community Health Centers: We Care For Your Community's Health - 2006 Position Paper
Location:	Charter Oak Health Center, Inc. 21 Grand Street Hartford, CT 06106 860.550.7500

 

 

 

Dr. Gaston and Gary Husmer

Evelyn Barnum, Marilyn Gaston and Juan Figueroa

“Connecticut’s Community Health Center’s Champions of Change”
Westbrook, CT - On June 5, 2004 the Community Health Center Association of Connecticut sponsored the inaugural meeting of the Community Health Center Leadership Institute. The goal of The Community Health Leadership Institute is to create a unified network of people to make change in the state’s health policy. The Anthem Foundation of Connecticut, which was instrumental in the success of the retreat, demonstrated its commitment to creating sound structural change in the state’s health care delivery and financing systems. As a result of funding to the Community Health Center Association of Connecticut, the Community Health Leadership Institute was able to provide community health centers in Connecticut the opportunity to raise their voices, share ideas, and to actively work together for the change that is necessary for access to quality care for all to occur. Board members from Charter Oak Health Center, Kelson Ettienne-Modeste, Gary Husmer, Luz Raquel Rivera and Janet Rivera Bright, joined their colleagues from across the state at a day long workshop and retreat on the Power of One, Strength of Many.

Evelyn Barnum, Executive Director of CPCA explained, “We wanted to give a message of thanks and encouragement to the people who are leaders in community health centers and discuss how their continued commitment to change will affect positive outcomes for their community health center patients.”

The day included inspirational addresses from Juan Figueroa, President of the Anthem Foundation, Connecticut State Senator Toni N. Harp and Dr. Marilyn Gaston, former U.S. Assistant Surgeon General. Dr. Gaston challenged the audience to “Change the story of Community Health Centers NOW!” She encouraged the participants to do this by having an active voice and role in promoting health care reform. Through a revolution in health care, Gaston shared her vision of ultimately achieving universal health care for all citizens.

Don Thompson, President of the CPCA Board of Directors, expressed that, “It is important that we have the support of those directly involved in the community health care system. They are the people who the federal governments want to hear from and that are who policy makers are going to listen to on the issues that are debated when it comes to funding the Community Health Centers.”

The CPCA was established in 1989 as the voice of Connecticut’s not-for-profit community health centers. The organization’s mission is to promote and further the delivery of comprehensive, accessible, family-oriented community-based health care. Their primary focus is education of the public, health policy makers, and health care providers. CPCA provides on-going information on community health center clinical performance and programs to the people of Connecticut, the state’s decision-makers and elected officials. With the inception of the Community Health Leadership Institute, CPCA will support community leaders in their efforts to assure that community health centers are recognized for the tremendous services that they provide.