Written by Bren Cole (Fenway Health), Anna Templeton (OCHIN), and Tiffany Prescott (OCHIN) Everyone loves a good superhero – and for National Health Center Week 2018 we enthusiastically join our members in “Celebrating Health Centers: Home of America’s Health Care Heroes”. Every day, community health centers (CHCs) welcome and care for 27 million Americans fromRead more
Hello and welcome to Community Health Roundup: your source for the latest in health news and information. It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted and I apologize for the delay, but now I’m back and with three very interesting articles in hand. This week I’ve found articles about the role community health centers play inRead more
Hello and welcome back to Community Health Roundup: your source for the latest in healthcare news and information. It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted and I apologize for the delay, but I think the articles I found this week will make up for my absence. This week we have articles about the effectsRead more
Hello and welcome back to Community Health Roundup: your source for the latest in health news and information! This week we are going to pack our bags and travel to North Carolina to check in on an ACO that is addressing social determinants of health, next we will explore the effects of thirdhand smoke andRead more
Hello and welcome back to Community Health Roundup: your source for the latest in health news and information. This week we have a short but informative CHR where we look at two articles concerning the ACA and a third about opioid prescribing rates in the US. Let’s talk turkey (definition: to speak seriously, frankly. No gobbleRead more
Question: Are you ready for some health news? If you answered yes, you are in the right place because this is Community Health Roundup, your source for the latest in health news and information! If you answered no, well please kick off your shoes and stay awhile because I have compiled quite a collection ofRead more
Hello and welcome back to Community Health Roundup: your source for the latest in health news and information. Each week I, William Jacob Amadeus Pinnock, scour the internet for the most interesting health news and report it back to you, the reading audience, in the form of bite sized summaries with a link to theRead more
Hello and welcome back to the not yet Pulitzer nominated (it’ll happen) Community Health Roundup: your source for the latest in health news and information. This week I only have three articles, but they are so chockfull of information you will think I posted five. The articles this week cover the potential lack of primary care physicians in the coming yearsRead more
Hello and welcome to this long overdue (20 days to be exact, but who’s counting) edition of the Community Health Round Up! I apologize for the delay, I became a busy bee and some how 20 days (again, but who’s counting) just passed me by. But! I am back and I come bearing gifts in the formRead more
Hello and welcome back to another installment of Community Health Roundup: your source for the latest (and most interesting) health news. This week we: learn about a new algorithm to predict social determinants of health referrals, reexamine the way peer review is performed, sit down with bassist Flea who discusses his struggles with opioids and addiction, learn someRead more
