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Cindy Richart, Vice President of Pharmacy Operations for Phoebe Ministries in Allentown, Pa., has been selected to receive LeadingAge PA’s 2021 Distinguished Service Award for Leader of the Year. Rachel Gullett, Director of Nursing at Phoebe Richland Health Care Center, has been selected to receive LeadingAge PA’s 2021 Distinguished Service Award for Manager of the Year. LeadingAge PA is a statewide, nonprofit…
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Reason to Have Hope: A Public Health Response to Racism — a multi-part, online, interactive, and highly adaptable course created by CHHSM — is now online! It is being released today (June 18) ahead of and in recognition of the Juneteenth holiday. “We are thrilled to offer ‘Reason to Hope’ as a means of helping…
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The CHHSM Board of Directors, meeting online June 7-9, focused a large portion of its meeting reviewing the commitments made by the Board, staff, and members in the June 2020 statement on the pandemic of systemic racism. At the top of the list was the final report of the organization’s recently completed Race, Diversity, Equity,…
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At the just completed CHHSM Board of Directors meeting, we held a generative session that explored the depth and breadth of the Race, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Assessment we received from the Equius Group. That session, which we called “The Way Forward,” gave the board an opportunity to dissect the report and prioritize action items…
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By Dr. Brian Temple, an infectious disease physician at Aurora Medical Center in Oshkosh, Wis. Reprinted from CHHSM member Advocate Aurora Health’s COVID-19 Update e-news blast of June 7, 2021, and Advocate Health E-News website. Long has mistrust of the medical community lingered among our Black and Brown communities. And now with the COVID-19 vaccine,…
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Former CHHSM Scholar Essence Ellis has been named the first-ever recipient of the CHHSM & JLCM United Church of Christ Fellowship. The program was created by CHHSM and the UCC’s Justice and Local Church Ministries (JLCM) to prepare the fellow to become a leader working at the intersections of theology, public health, racial justice, gender…
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Reason to Have Hope: A Public Health Response to Racism — a multi-part, online, interactive, and highly adaptable course created by CHHSM — is now online. The innovative, user-friendly curriculum is geared for a group learning environment, and includes history, current events, theology, stories of resilience, and the intersections of race and social issues to…
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In 2019, the Rev. Dr. Gloria Brown, senior staff chaplain at Advocate Trinity Hospital in Chicago, planted the seed of an idea during an Advocate Partners of Faith and Health Network (PFHN) meeting: Why not keep daily journals, writing down something for which they were grateful each day? Brown’s colleague, Patricia A. Jackson, CHW, with…
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Embrace Living Communities, based in Oak Brooke, Ill., not only extends its quality of service to its housing communities; it also builds quality relationships with people and organizations in the wider community. Its Rockford Communities is just one example. A common misconception about older adult affordable housing is that the properties are not well maintained,…
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By Kendall Curtis, Graphic Designer and Marketing Assistant, Archway Communities. This story first appeared in Archway Communities’ monthly Resident Spotlight. It is reprinted here with permission. As I sit in Richard “Gonzo” Beck’s studio in Redline Contemporary Art Gallery (located behind Archway’s Cornerstone Residence) he tells me that his passion for art began in prison. “It…
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A “Harm Reduction & Overdose Prevention in the Pulpit: Building a Meaningful Harm Reduction Justice Sunday Service” webinar took place June 27, 2024, to introduce a new resource for congregations ...