Episodes

Dr. John Wennberg, the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth College.

This week on Conversations on Health Care, Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. John Wennberg whose research for the past 40 years has focused on variations in health care around the country and its implications on the individual, the community and the health care system as a whole. Dr. Wennberg is the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth and founder and director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, home to the Dartmouth Atlas Project.

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Dr. Alan Fleischman, medical director of the March of Dimes Foundation

On this week’s, Conversations on Health Care, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Alan Fleischman, medical director of the March of Dimes Foundation, about improving maternal-child health, reducing premature births and eliminating disparities in birth outcomes.

The Community Health Center has had a long relationship with the March of Dimes, especially with our efforts to bring CenteringPregnancy care to our patients.

Yet our commitment to the March of Dimes goes much deeper.  On Sunday May 1, from 9 a.m. to noon, some CHC employees and AmeriCorps members will be walking to help raise money for March of Dimes.

The money raised at the March for Babies will support March of Dimes research and programs that help moms have full-term pregnancies and babies begin healthy lives.  It will be used to bring comfort and information to families with a baby in newborn intensive care.

If you would like to join the CHC team and show your support for the March of Dimes’ incredible work, please sign up at on the CHC Team Page. Significant others and children are also welcome.

To learn more about the March for Babies, watch this video

or visit www.marchforbabies.org.  Hope to see you on May 1st!

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Dr. Mary Jane Koren, vice president for the Picker-Commonwealth Fund Long-Term Quality Improvement Program

The latest episode of Conversations on Health Care is now up on the CHCRadio website and on iTunes.  You can listen this afternoon on WESU in Middletown, CT and on other radio stations over the coming week.

I am also posting the information here for people who want to subscribe to an RSS feed of the show or listen to it with other podcast clients. (more…)

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Dr. Lucian Leape, a leading figure in the modern patient safety movement.

The latest episode of Conversations on Health Care is now up on the CHCRadio website and on iTunes.  You can listen this afternoon on WESU in Middletown, CT and on other radio stations over the coming week.

I am also posting the information here for people who want to subscribe to an RSS feed of the show or listen to it with other podcast clients.

Conversations on Health Care focuses this week on patient safety – how far we’ve come and what still needs to be covered. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Lucian Leape, one of the country’s leading figures in patient safety whose body of work includes the landmark Institute of Medicine report “To Err is Human.” Dr. Leape currently chairs the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation and teaches at the Harvard School of Public Health.

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Cecile Richard on Conversations on Health Care

This afternoon, Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, spoke with Mark and Margaret on Conversations on Health Care.  She spoke about Planned Parenthood’s role in expanding access to health care for women, men and teens. The conversation moved beyond the current political debate in Washington to the underlying health care needs of Americans.  You can listen to the audio archive on the CHCRadio website as well as check out the Live Tweets from during the show.

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