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Friday, November 15, 2009
Congressman Obey praises Thundermist
woonsocketcall.com - After a tour of Thundermist Health Center guided by President Maria Montanaro, Congressman David Obey, chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee praised it as an “especially innovative” facility.
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Friday, November 6, 2009
Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention News E-Bulletin: October 2009 Edition
News, Articles, Upcoming Trainings and Events, and Helpful Resources
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Northwest Community Health Care (WellOne) celebrates 100 years of serving Rhode Islanders
rihca.org - In celebration of a century of caring for local patients, Northwest Community Health Care directors and staff will join with honored guests on Friday, November 6th at Crystal Lake Golf Club in Mapleville for an evening of dinner and dancing. From its inception as an anti-Tuberculosis league with one nurse in a horse and buggy caring for Burrillville residents to nearly 100 employees today in three locations tending to 13,000+ patients in nine communities, Northwest has never wavered in its dedication to providing high quality health care, regardless of one’s ability to pay.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Rhode Island Community Health Center Association honors innovators and leaders in Rhode Island health care at annual meeting
rihca.org - The Rhode Island Health Center Association (RIHCA) celebrated innovators and leaders in Rhode Island health care and looked towards the possibility of national health reform at its annual meeting on Friday October 23, 2009. Dr. Jerald Fingerut, Medical Director at Blackstone Valley Community Health Care, Inc., received the Clinical Leadership Award in recognition of his exemplary clinical leadership of the Blackstone Valley Community Health Care providers and programs. Rhode Island Health Insurance Commissioner Christopher Koller received the John J. Cunningham M.D. Distinguished Citizen Award for his ongoing efforts to address insurance and health care costs. Dr. Joseph DiMase received the John H. Chafee Healthcare Leadership Award award for his success and leadership initiating the Screening Colonoscopies for Underserved Persons program, which provides colonoscopies for uninsured patients of community health centers and other partner health providers.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
RI doctor joins peers for Rose Garden talk on health care
projo.com - Dr. Nirali Bora of Providence was among the white-coated physicians from all 50 states who joined in the Rose Garden Monday morning for a brief pep talk by President Obama for overhauling the nation's medical system.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Community health centers will play key role in reforms
projo.com - The expanded presence of community health centers is certain to help Rhode Islanders access health care in the coming years, regardless of whether Congress reforms the nation’s health-care system, the state’s health insurance commissioner said Wednesday. Commissioner Christopher F. Koller argues that any effective reform of the nation’s health-care system will encourage the special brand of comprehensive primary care that tends to happen in community health centers, where doctors, nurses and other providers often work in teams.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Community health centers expand to meet growing demand
projo.com — An illness as old as the common cold afflicts Zunilda Munoz, a patient in the Tri-Town Community Action Agency’s newly expanded community health center.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Study Projects Community Health Center Expansion Would Save $212 Billion
nachc.org -A study released today reveals that if the nation’s network of Community Health Centers were expanded to accommodate an additional 20 million patients, the result would be $212 billion in savings for the health care system over a ten-year period.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Northwest Community Health Care: Expands access to quality dental care for western RI and announces new organization name
rihca.org - In conjunction with National Health Center week, Northwest Community Health Care directors and staff joined with U.S. Senator Jack Reed and Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Roberts as well as other local officials to celebrate the opening of their new dental facility in Foster, the only one in the area.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Whitehouse visits Thundermist to learn about innovative programs
scindependent.com - Jim Sloan moved to South County about 10 months ago after his life hit a roadblock and a series of setbacks cost him his house, his business and eventually, his overall well being.
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Tri-Town receives major grant for health care
johnstonsunrise.net - The health of Johnston’s poorest residents was in the spotlight last week as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse stopped by to talk to people about the need for attentive preventive care. A day after his visit, Rhode Island’s entire congressional delegation announced a multi-million-dollar infusion of federal money into struggling community action programs; Johnston’s Tri-Town Community Action Agency will get $250,000.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Four Community Health Centers Receive Funding from Rhode Island Foundation's Fund for Healthy Rhode Island
rifoundation.org - The Rhode Island Foundation today announced the first round of grants from the Fund for a Healthy Rhode Island. Among the grantees were four community health centers: Providence Community Health Centers, Inc., Blackstone Valley Community Health Care, Inc., Northwest Community Health Care and Tri-Town Community Action Program.
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RX for Rhode Island: Foundation makes grants of $1.6 million for primary care
Monday, June 29, 2009
First Lady Tours a Health Center
nytimes.com - First lady Michelle Obama visited a local health clinic in Washington on Tuesday in an effort to focus attention on preventable scourges such as obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure that disproportionately afflict African-American and Hispanic communities.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Rhode Island House budget: Funding for Dental Services
projo.com - The spending plan maintains funding for dental services for 38,000 low-income parents enrolled in the RIte Care program and continues to pay for subsidized health insurance for 28 moderate-income pregnant women slated to lose coverage.
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Thundermist looking for new West Warwick home:
kentcountytimes.com - Located on Main Street at Curson Street, Thundermist Health Center is highly visible, centrally located, easy to get to, but cramped for space, according to President and CEO Maria Montanaro.
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Community Health Centers and Congressional Delegation Announce Federal Stimulus Funding Plan:
projo.com - The Rhode Island Health Center Association today announced how its member health centers plan to use funding released under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The funding falls into three categories: New Access Points, Increased Demand for Services and Capital Improvement Program. The state’s congressional leaders joined the association’s membership for the announcement.
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Thursday, May 07, 2009
H1N1 virus update
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Friday, May 1, 2009
How is the Primary Care Safety Net Faring in MA?
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Important Health Reform Hearing Spotlights Health Centers:
nachc.com - The health care reform discussion continued in Washington Thursday, and once again, Community Health Centers figured prominently. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee took testimony today in a hearing called Primary Health Care Access Reform: Community Health Centers and the National Health Service Corps.
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Thursday, April 20, 2009
Current care:
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Governor would cut dental coverage for 38,000 poor adults:
projo.com - Ray Lavoie, executive director of Blackstone Valley Community Healthcare, says he's concerned that the dental care of the 3,500 adult clients his organization treats annually who are covered by Medicaid could be threatened should Governor Carrier’s Medicaid waiver be implemented in Rhode Island. Video by Frieda Squires. Source: projo.com
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