Paul H. Dworkin, MD serves as executive vice president for community child health at Connecticut Children’s, director of Connecticut Children’s Office for Community Child Health, and founding director of the Help Me Grow National Center. Dr. Dworkin is also a professor of pediatrics at UConn School of Medicine. […]
At Connecticut Children’s, we focus not only on the medical and surgical needs of our patients, but also on addressing family and community needs to promote overall well-being. Our community-focused initiatives directly address needs identified during our triennial Community Health Needs Assessments, and we report the results of […]
By: Stacy Chandna, MS, CIP The evidence is clear. Engaging in healthy eating and exercise is vital to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. And there’s no better time to start creating healthy habits than in the earliest years of children’s lives. Since launching our program two years ago, Kohl’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
By: Paul H. Dworkin, MD and Lisa Honigfeld, PhD While Connecticut has made much progress over the past decade in improving the delivery of child health services, much still needs to be done to reach our ultimate goal of ensuring the optimal health, development, and well-being of all […]
