CT Health Newsletters
University of Connecticut Health Center
Connecticut Health Signature Program Newsletter
Issue One - Spring 2002
www.connecticuthealth.org
PROGRAM OF THE MONTH:
Dental Screening at Camp Courant
Directed By Dr. Deborah Redford-Badwall, D.D.S, Ph.D.
The Department of Pediatric Dentistry directs a dental screening
program for the campers at Hartford’s Camp Courant, the summer camp
sponsored by the Hartford Courant for underprivileged children. In 2001,
the dental teams saw a total of 910 children with various degrees of
dental problems, and provided appropriate referrals and follow-up.
Hartford’s Camp Courant is the largest free day camp in the nation,
serving up to 2,500 Hartford children during the summer season. Children
ages 5 through 12, who live in the city of Hartford, participate in a
variety of recreational, educational and cultural programs at the
campsite in Farmington. Transportation, two nutritious meals, health
care and a bathing suit are provided to every child who needs one. All
of the programs are geared towards developing self-esteem, building
positive relationships and having fun.
Hartford's Camp Courant began as a summer excursion fund in 1894 and
has become the nation's largest free day camp. For over a century, Camp
Courant has provided free summer activities for city children. The
University of Connecticut Health Center’s Department of Pediatric
Dentistry supports the provision of dental care to these underserved
children as an extension of its extensive, high-quality clinical and
educational involvement in the Hartford community.
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Connecticut Health projects take place in virtually all 169
Connecticut towns and meet a wide range of community and public health
needs.
Questions or comments? Interested in listing your project?
Contact Ms. Corey A. Conlon at
caconlon@adp.uchc.edu or (860) 679-3236.
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Accomplishments Forge Alliance
Frank Gifford, Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations, has
found the CT Health website a useful tool for fundraising. “The
Development Office tries to match the philanthropic goals of benefactors
with the programmatic goals of the institution. The CT Health website
allows provides quick reference to all Health Center outreach programs
and helps in that matchmaking process”. Frank noted the recent gift from
People’s Bank to the Health Career Opportunities Program as an example
of how this works. When People’s Bank expressed interest in K-12
education, a review of the CT Health database suggested Dr. Hurley’s
programs might be a good fit. The result was a five-year, $100,000
commitment to the summer research apprentice program and additional
support for electronically linking area high schools. Building upon this
success, the Development Office and Connecticut Health are exploring
other opportunities to secure private funding.
www.connecticuthealth.org
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Connecticut Health General Information
Connecticut Health facilitates and promotes public health and public
sector service to the State of Connecticut. The Connecticut Health
Project Database serves as a central source of information regarding
UCHC’s community and public health programs. Working with governmental
and community-based organizations, it seeks out opportunities for UCHC
faculty and staff to collaborate on new initiatives, and it consults on
the development of new projects that are initiated from within the
Health Center.
Connecticut Health represents for the University of Connecticut
Health Center a new and permanent emphasis on community and public
health. It embodies the contribution of the Health Center to the health
of the citizens of the entire state. From Connecticut Health will come
an expanded range of programs that augment the Health Center’s
traditional mission in education, research, and high quality medicine
and fulfill its obligation as a publicly funded institution.
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Highlights – Did you know . . . ?
Connecticut Heath has currently identified 220 projects that provide
community and public health services.
UCHC houses the largest Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the state of
Connecticut.
The number of children suffering from asthma in the US is estimated
to have increased by 49 percent since 1982. See what UCHC is doing about
it. Search the Connecticut Health database by keyword: asthma
UCHC provides all of the health, mental health, and dental care to
the 18,000 state inmates.
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What is Connecticut Health anyway?
The University of Connecticut Health Center is placing increasing
emphasis on its community-based and public health programs. In 2000, the
Health Center developed four new strategic initiatives as, one of which
Connecticut Health, calls for a substantially increased collaboration
with governmental and private nonprofit agencies in addressing the
community and public health needs of the state.
Connecticut Health is an umbrella under which are gathered the
hundreds of UCHC projects and programs that address the health-related
needs of sister state agencies, local governmental agencies,
community-based organizations, and the citizens of Connecticut.
Connecticut Health seeks to incentivize, facilitate, and promote public
health and public sector service to the State of Connecticut. A program
falls within Connecticut Health by virtue of substantive involvement of
UCHC faculty, staff, residents and students in addressing community and
public health needs. Programs range from providing all of the health and
mental health care for the state’s prison population to running small
pilot projects designed to improve the day care available to disabled
children. Programs addressing the needs of underserved populations,
providing direct care to the poor and uninsured, research projects that
address significant health problems in underserved populations, and
educational programs are of particular interest. Virtually all
Connecticut Health projects are undertaken as a collaboration with
governmental agencies or community-based partners.
Because the full extent and range community-based programming at the
health center has never before been fully appreciated, Connecticut
Health maintains a website to serve as a central source of information
regarding UCHC’s community and public health programs. Contact us if you
are interested in listing a project on the Connecticut Health website.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever
observes.
-Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles
Connecticut Health
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06030-3967
Phone: (860) 679-3236
Fax: (860) 679-1101
Email: kpasquale@nso1.uchc.edu
www.connnecticuthealth.org
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