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Help design Connecticut’s health improvement plan

By Ellen Andrews | September 6, 2013

  A broad coalition of stakeholders led by DPH is developing a plan for A Healthier CT by 2020 and…

New action guide on Community Health Workers

By Ellen Andrews | September 6, 2013

ICER has published an action guide, Community Health Workers: Applying the Evidence to Policy and Practice, to effectively incorporating Community…

September CT Health Policy Webquiz: CT health risks

By Ellen Andrews | September 5, 2013

  Test your knowledge of the rates of health risks among CT adults. Take the September CT Health Policy Webquiz.

CT Mirror reports on SIM proposal – administration agenda and advocate concerns

By Ellen Andrews | September 4, 2013

  An article yesterday in the CT Mirror describes the administration’s plans to apply for millions in federal dollars to…

CT Health Reform Progress Meter moves up to 23.7%

By Ellen Andrews | September 3, 2013

  CT policymakers have completed 23.7% of the tasks necessary for health reform, making up for last month’s drop. Most…

Consumer advocates provide constructive input to SIM

By Ellen Andrews | August 22, 2013

  Today a letter was sent to state SIM planners from 24 CT consumer advocates representing 21 organizations proposing an…

Quinnipiac med students start classes today

By Ellen Andrews | August 19, 2013

  The first class of students at the new Quinnipiac University medical school started classes today. Training for the sixty…

Book Club: Naked Statistics

By Ellen Andrews | August 16, 2013

  A new addition to the CT Health Policy Project Book Club – Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the…

Waterbury Hospital for-profit takeover community forum tonight

By Ellen Andrews | August 15, 2013

  A community forum on Vanguard/Tenet’s planned takeover of Waterbury Hospital will be tonight at 7pm at St. John’s Episcopal…