By: Garry Lapidus, PA-C, MPH I have seen a lot of progress in the field of injury and violence prevention over the 30 years that I have been part of it. Advancements in this field have saved an untold number of lives around the country. However, as a […]
By: Nancy Trout, MD, MPH The benefits of teaching children to grow their own food from a young age are well known, which is why the Kohl’s Start Childhood Off Right (SCOR) program launched a new community gardening project over the summer. SCOR, which is part of Connecticut […]
Nancy S. Bruno, AuD, FAAA, ABA-Cert., CCC-A/SLP, is the clinical manager of Connecticut Children’s Department of Audiology. With October being National Protect Your Hearing Month, she joins our blog to discuss important strategies providers, parents and others can use to help children prevent noise-induced hearing loss. Advancing Kids: […]
We are excited to share our newly published 2019 Community Health Needs Assessment. The report is a bedrock document for Connecticut Children’s and our Office for Community Child Health. It summarizes expansive community health data into concise critical community health needs. It also provides clear recommendations to drive […]
By: Jacquelyn M. Rose, MPH This is the fifth and final blog of a series describing Connecticut Children’s Office for Community Child Health’s journey to create and nurture a culture of innovation. As I look back on our year and a half-long process to create and nurture […]
Pediatric residents from the UConn School of Medicine spend three years at Connecticut Children’s honing their clinical skills during rotations in ambulatory, inpatient, and subspecialty care. All of our residents also learn the importance of promoting health and well-being by taking part in a community longitudinal elective. In […]
Pediatric providers are increasingly recognizing the dominant impact of social, environmental, and behavioral factors on children’s health, development, and well-being. An important focus on health equity and the impact of adverse social determinants demand providers’ best efforts to identify and address families’ needs. As a result, many organizations […]
By: Karen Rubin, MD Connecticut Children’s is embracing new technology to strengthen pediatric primary care by ensuring subspecialists in certain clinical areas are available to community-based pediatric primary care providers (PCPs) through electronic consultations, or e-consults. How E-Consults Work Now becoming more popular around the country, e-consults mark […]
