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18 Mar, 2024
Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center Earns $10,000 Grant from NewAlliance Foundation to Advance Innovation, Health Equity; Award Will Support Newly Launched Endowment Fund
Cornell Scott Creates Family Planning Videos In Four Languages
26 Feb, 2024
The one-year grant Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center (CS-HHC) was awarded by the Federal Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in May 2022 enabled CS-HHC’s Family Planning Services program to enhance direct-to-consumer telehealth for low-income women covered by DHHS’ Title X Family Planning program.
27 Nov, 2023
Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center has been awarded $572,927 in funding to provide coordinated, culturally sensitive, and developmentally appropriate health care services at school-based health center (SBHC) sites at five elementary schools in the region – three in Hamden and two in West Haven - beginning with the current school year: Helen Street School in Hamden , a Pre-School to Grade 6 elementary school, the only neighborhood walking school in the public school district; Ridge Hill School in Hamden , a K-6 public elementary school with a culturally and socio-economically diverse student body; Dunbar Hill School in Hamden , home to approximately 300 students in Grades K through 6, a Pre-K program, and the district’s High Road program; Savin Rock Community School in West Haven , a Pre-K to Grade 4 elementary school that is home to approximately 480 high need students; Washington Elementary School in West Haven , a K to Grade 4 elementary school with a culturally diverse student body of about 330 students. SBHCs are partnerships between schools and community health organizations to provide health care where students spend most of their time – in schools. Parents or guardians provide consent for their children to receive care. The funding was made possible by the Connecticut Department of Public Health, which chose the School-Based Health Alliance (SBHA), the national voice for school-based health, to administer the funds. Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center’s proposal was selected from 133 applications submitted by 24 sponsoring organizations (such as school districts, community health organizations, behavioral health organizations, or nonprofits) after a competitive review process. It is one of 20 organizations statewide chosen for funding at more than 90 sites to improve students’ access to health care. Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center will work to address students needs through this funding. The Helen Street School award is for integrated primary medical and behavioral health services; the awards pertaining to Ridge Hill, Dunbar Hill, Savin Rock and Washington Elementary schools are for behavioral health services. Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center staff will collaborate with the school nurse, school counselor, and school administrators in providing services at each of the schools. “These awards reflect recognition of our commitment to the children attending these schools and their healthcare needs,” said Michael R. Taylor, Chief Executive Officer of Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center. “Good health is essential to learning, and we look forward to working in close collaboration with school staff in the best interests of all the children.” The SBHA funding will increase the number of schools in the region where CS-HHC is providing school-based healthcare services from 12 to 17, as of the 2023-24 school year. To learn more about the organizations and sites throughout Connecticut that received SBHC funding, visit SBHA’s website. More information about Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center, visit the CS-HHC website . About Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center The first Community Health Center in Connecticut, founded in 1978, the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center is celebrating 55 Years of Health Equity in Action in 2023, a proud history of providing high-quality care serving residents in Greater New Haven and Lower Naugatuck Valley communities. CS-HHC is widely seen as a consistent national leader in the field, and was recently ranked in the top 3% of community health centers in the United States. To learn more, please visit cornellscott.org. About the School-Based Health Alliance Since 1995, the School-Based Health Alliance (SBHA), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, has supported and advocated for high-quality healthcare in schools for the nation's most vulnerable children. Working at the intersection of healthcare and education, SBHA is recognized as a leader in the field and a source of information on best practices by philanthropic, federal, state, and local partners and policymakers. To learn more, please visit www.sbh4all.org . Media Contacts: Carlah Esdaile-Bragg, Director, Marketing & Community Relations, CS-HHC cesdaile-bragg@cornellscott.org Jeffrey Williams, Director of Communications, SBHA jwilliams@sbh4all.org or 771-203-1316
17 Oct, 2023
While the pandemic is in the rearview mirror, the healthcare industry still faces a host of challenges. Click here to meet the Power 25 Health Care leaders Whether it’s labor shortages, inflation, rising drug costs or even a mental healthcare crisis, numerous factors are creating financial and other pressures on healthcare organizations. It will take strong leadership to continue to get through these challenging times. In this week’s issue, Hartford Business Journal is publishing its fourth annual Power 25 Health Care list, which identifies leaders who are having a significant impact on the industry and public health. Click here to meet the Power 25 Health Care leaders This isn’t an awards section. HBJ’s Power 25 Health Care list was chosen by HBJ’s editorial team, and it includes a mix of established players as well as some fresh faces to our region. We’re curious to know what you think. Feel free to send feedback. Power 25 Health Care will be back next year with some new names and faces, so be prepared to make suggestions. Click here to meet the Power 25 Health Care leaders From HBJ: Michael R. Taylor is a major player in Greater New Haven’s healthcare industry, serving as CEO of the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center since 2012. Click here to go back to the 2023 Power 25 Health Care home page Taylor oversees a staff of more than 700 employees who provide a range of services in Greater New Haven and the lower Naugatuck Valley, including medical, behavioral health, dental, pediatric and women’s health. Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center serves more than 55,000 patients a year at 27 care sites and school-based health centers throughout the region. About 62% of its patients are enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program, which serves low-income residents. Taylor is currently overseeing a major expansion project — construction of one of the state’s largest centers for addiction and mental health care. The Recovery & Wellness Center in New Haven’s Hill neighborhood is a $24.5 million project, taking shape at 149 Minor St. When complete, the three-story, 31,000-square-foot building will feature individual and group counseling rooms, a medical suite, 12-bed female dormitory and 40-bed male dormitory with semi-private rooms. Taylor’s influence also extends beyond Connecticut. In August, he was named board chair-elect of the National Association of Community Health Centers. He will take over the chairman role in October 2025. Prior to joining Cornell Scott-Hill in 2010, Taylor was founder and president of a healthcare consulting firm that served more than 200 community health centers nationally. He also held leadership positions with several national accounting and healthcare consulting firms, including The Lewin Group.
27 Sep, 2023
Celebratory Event Recognizes Leadership of William W. Ginsberg, Cynthia Sparer, State Rep. Toni E. Walker, Ece Tek M.D., Hill Parents Association
27 Sep, 2023
A government shutdown could thrust healthcare providers into unpredictable and uncharted territory, even though vast portions of the federal healthcare apparatus, including and Medicare and Medicaid, are immune from annual budget showdowns in Congress. According President Joe Biden's proposed budget for fiscal 2024 , which begins Sunday, 91% of Health and Human Services Department spending is categorized as mandatory, not as discretionary spending that is subject to yearly appropriations bills or periodic reauthorizations. Related: Congress faces tight deadline to extend key health programs That still leaves more than $150 billion worth of health-related spending that Biden seeks from Congress unfulfilled as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) contends with a revolt from within the GOP conference that threatens to bring the machinery of government to an abrupt halt. Exactly how Congress' failure to pass spending would impact specific agencies and the providers and patients they serve is difficult to predict. HHS released an updated contingency plan last week that details how many employees would be permitted to continue working in the absence of new appropriations and how many would be furloughed. The department also specified what vital functions would continue, even if the staff positions were not funded. According to that document, 51,293 HHS employees would stay on the job and 37,325 kept away until Congress agrees to a spending deal. Those who remain would work on programs that have mandatory funding such as Medicare, activities supported by user fees such Food and Drug Administration reviews of new pharmaceuticals and medical devices, areas supported by supplemental COVID-19 funding already on the books, and programs with multi-year funding that has already been enacted, such as the Indian Health Service. Some programs and workers affected by a shutdown would still be pressed into service—with pay delayed until after a shutdown is resolved—if their jobs are critical to treating patients or maintaining sensitive experiments, for example, at the National Institutes for Health. Others whose jobs are essential to protecting property or supporting funded activities would also be expected to work. "HHS will continue any necessary activities in the event of a lapse in appropriation," the department wrote in its contingency plan. "For example, the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response will maintain the minimal readiness for all hazards, including COVID-19, pandemic flu and hurricane responses." Nevertheless, the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response would retain just 47% of its roughly 1,000-person workforce. As with all of HHS contingency plans, this agency's blueprint does not specify what the consequences may be for the public. The White House, HHS and several departmental agencies did not respond to numerous requests for interviews. There are some important differences facing the healthcare sector under this potential shutdown that make it both more alarming and harder to anticipate than the congressional deadlock that spanned 35 days from late 2018 into early 2019. At that time, five of the 12 annual appropriations bills that Congress is supposed to pass had already been enacted, including the HHS budget. This year, lawmakers have not sent any fiscal 2024 spending measures to Biden. Another wrinkle this year is that Congress has also failed to approve reauthorizations for key health programs that are due to sunset along with the fiscal year on Saturday, including federally qualified health centers, the graduate medical education program and the National Health Service Corps. According to HHS' contingency plan, federal workers would continue to support all of those programs in a shutdown, but stakeholders are already worried. "Any disruption to our delicate financial balance, and even a brief interruption in our federal funding, could have a devastating impact and long-term impact on community health centers and on our ability to continue to treat all of the patients who walk through our doors," Michael Taylor, CEO of New Haven, Connecticut-based Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center , said at a news conference last week. National Association of Community Health Centers spokesperson Amy Simmons lamented the confluence of stalled reauthorizations and a potential federal shutdown. "It’s creating a lot of anxiety and disruption in the health center community," she said. "You can’t run healthcare delivery for 31.5 million patients on a month-to-month basis. We have thousands of advocates who are aware, concerned and reaching out to Congress." The community health centers organization is hoping that Congress at least passes a stopgap measure to extend the federally qualified health centers program and its funding. But the contingent of House Republicans forcing the showdown on Capitol Hill has already rejected the notion of a temporary fix to prevent a shutdown. Furthermore, House GOP leadership has scheduled the full-year FDA funding bill for a vote this week, but none of the other major health spending bills or reauthorizations. The White House has warned there will be consequences if Congress doesn't act by Saturday. "A Republican shutdown would stall critical research on diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s because the National Institutes of Health would be forced to delay new clinical trials," the White House said in a news release last week. "New patients, many of whom are desperately waiting for a chance at new treatment through a clinical trial, will be turned away." Like the NIH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is especially exposed. "The CDC and NIH are certainly vulnerable because they rely primarily on discretionary appropriations. They're not running mandatory programs like Medicare or Medicaid," said Paul Van de Water, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a left-leaning think tank. According to HHS, less than a quarter of NIH employees and 41% of CDC staff would remain on the job absent new appropriations. While specific short-term problems might be hard to identify, the longer-term effects of a shutdown—or just coming close to one—are easier to envision, said Beth Resnick, assistant dean for practice and training at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. For instance, this kind of political disruption is discouraging to the federal workforce, which has implications for retaining and recruiting people to manage government programs. "It's really hard to live your life like that and try to have a functioning system when everything's always up in the air," Resnick said. "The damage to morale and all that, that might even be bigger than the actual impact of whatever the shutdown ends up being."  View article on modernhealthcare.com . 
12 Sep, 2023
CONNECTICUT'S MORNING BUZZ Cornell Scott Hill Health Center: A Community of Caring
29 Aug, 2023
(New Haven, CT) – Mr. Taylor, who has been CEO of Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center since 2012, was named to the post during the National Health Center Organization’s Annual Conference Aug. 26 in San Diego, California. On October 1, 2025 he will succeed Paloma Hernandez, CEO of Urban Health Plan in New York, who ascended to the role of Board Chair at the conference. “I congratulate Michael Taylor and look forward to working with him and the NACHC board of directors to realize the goals we've set forward at such a critical point in our history,” said Paloma Hernandez, President and CEO of Urban Health Plan and Chair of the Board of Directors, NACHC. “The opportunities to address health inequities across our nation have never been greater and together we will continue the important work of strengthening our 1400 health centers in more than 15,000 medically underserved and rural communities.” Said Mr. Taylor, “I am deeply honored to be in line to lead an organization that represents so many professionals and providers dedicated to ensuring that more than 31 million individuals living in communities throughout this country receive high-quality health care.” Mr. Taylor, who has served as a member of NACHC’s board of directors for four years, will be only the second individual from Connecticut to lead the organization. The other was Cornell Scott, who help found the-then Hill Health Center in New Haven 55 years ago and served as the center’s first president for 40 years. Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont issued a statement, congratulating Mr. Taylor. “It is a great honor for the State of Connecticut to have one of its leading health care executives in line to head this national organization. Michael Taylor has been an outstanding champion for improving the health and welfare of underserved residents in our state, and we are delighted he is gaining recognition for his dedication to quality care.” He also was applauded by LindyLee Gold, Board Chair of the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center Foundation and a longtime New Haven community supporter. “For 55 years, Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center has demonstrated the enormous difference community health centers can make for patients and, under Michael Taylor’s leadership, its impact has widened and deepened. It is gratifying that he is being honored for his leadership.” NACHC, based in Bethesda, Md., was founded in 1971 and represents the more than 1,400 community health centers that provide patient care for nearly one tenth of the country. With a staff of more than 700 individuals and 27 care sites and school-based health centers throughout the New Haven area, Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center serves more than 55,000 patients a year, putting it among the top 3 percent of the nation’s community health centers. ### Media Contact: Carlah Esdaile-Bragg, Director, Marketing & Community Relations cesdaile@cornellscott.org, 203-503-3276
18 Mar, 2024
Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center Earns $10,000 Grant from NewAlliance Foundation to Advance Innovation, Health Equity; Award Will Support Newly Launched Endowment Fund
Cornell Scott Creates Family Planning Videos In Four Languages
26 Feb, 2024
The one-year grant Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center (CS-HHC) was awarded by the Federal Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in May 2022 enabled CS-HHC’s Family Planning Services program to enhance direct-to-consumer telehealth for low-income women covered by DHHS’ Title X Family Planning program.
27 Nov, 2023
Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center has been awarded $572,927 in funding to provide coordinated, culturally sensitive, and developmentally appropriate health care services at school-based health center (SBHC) sites at five elementary schools in the region – three in Hamden and two in West Haven - beginning with the current school year: Helen Street School in Hamden , a Pre-School to Grade 6 elementary school, the only neighborhood walking school in the public school district; Ridge Hill School in Hamden , a K-6 public elementary school with a culturally and socio-economically diverse student body; Dunbar Hill School in Hamden , home to approximately 300 students in Grades K through 6, a Pre-K program, and the district’s High Road program; Savin Rock Community School in West Haven , a Pre-K to Grade 4 elementary school that is home to approximately 480 high need students; Washington Elementary School in West Haven , a K to Grade 4 elementary school with a culturally diverse student body of about 330 students. SBHCs are partnerships between schools and community health organizations to provide health care where students spend most of their time – in schools. Parents or guardians provide consent for their children to receive care. The funding was made possible by the Connecticut Department of Public Health, which chose the School-Based Health Alliance (SBHA), the national voice for school-based health, to administer the funds. Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center’s proposal was selected from 133 applications submitted by 24 sponsoring organizations (such as school districts, community health organizations, behavioral health organizations, or nonprofits) after a competitive review process. It is one of 20 organizations statewide chosen for funding at more than 90 sites to improve students’ access to health care. Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center will work to address students needs through this funding. The Helen Street School award is for integrated primary medical and behavioral health services; the awards pertaining to Ridge Hill, Dunbar Hill, Savin Rock and Washington Elementary schools are for behavioral health services. Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center staff will collaborate with the school nurse, school counselor, and school administrators in providing services at each of the schools. “These awards reflect recognition of our commitment to the children attending these schools and their healthcare needs,” said Michael R. Taylor, Chief Executive Officer of Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center. “Good health is essential to learning, and we look forward to working in close collaboration with school staff in the best interests of all the children.” The SBHA funding will increase the number of schools in the region where CS-HHC is providing school-based healthcare services from 12 to 17, as of the 2023-24 school year. To learn more about the organizations and sites throughout Connecticut that received SBHC funding, visit SBHA’s website. More information about Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center, visit the CS-HHC website . About Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center The first Community Health Center in Connecticut, founded in 1978, the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center is celebrating 55 Years of Health Equity in Action in 2023, a proud history of providing high-quality care serving residents in Greater New Haven and Lower Naugatuck Valley communities. CS-HHC is widely seen as a consistent national leader in the field, and was recently ranked in the top 3% of community health centers in the United States. To learn more, please visit cornellscott.org. About the School-Based Health Alliance Since 1995, the School-Based Health Alliance (SBHA), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, has supported and advocated for high-quality healthcare in schools for the nation's most vulnerable children. Working at the intersection of healthcare and education, SBHA is recognized as a leader in the field and a source of information on best practices by philanthropic, federal, state, and local partners and policymakers. To learn more, please visit www.sbh4all.org . Media Contacts: Carlah Esdaile-Bragg, Director, Marketing & Community Relations, CS-HHC cesdaile-bragg@cornellscott.org Jeffrey Williams, Director of Communications, SBHA jwilliams@sbh4all.org or 771-203-1316
17 Oct, 2023
While the pandemic is in the rearview mirror, the healthcare industry still faces a host of challenges. Click here to meet the Power 25 Health Care leaders Whether it’s labor shortages, inflation, rising drug costs or even a mental healthcare crisis, numerous factors are creating financial and other pressures on healthcare organizations. It will take strong leadership to continue to get through these challenging times. In this week’s issue, Hartford Business Journal is publishing its fourth annual Power 25 Health Care list, which identifies leaders who are having a significant impact on the industry and public health. Click here to meet the Power 25 Health Care leaders This isn’t an awards section. HBJ’s Power 25 Health Care list was chosen by HBJ’s editorial team, and it includes a mix of established players as well as some fresh faces to our region. We’re curious to know what you think. Feel free to send feedback. Power 25 Health Care will be back next year with some new names and faces, so be prepared to make suggestions. Click here to meet the Power 25 Health Care leaders From HBJ: Michael R. Taylor is a major player in Greater New Haven’s healthcare industry, serving as CEO of the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center since 2012. Click here to go back to the 2023 Power 25 Health Care home page Taylor oversees a staff of more than 700 employees who provide a range of services in Greater New Haven and the lower Naugatuck Valley, including medical, behavioral health, dental, pediatric and women’s health. Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center serves more than 55,000 patients a year at 27 care sites and school-based health centers throughout the region. About 62% of its patients are enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program, which serves low-income residents. Taylor is currently overseeing a major expansion project — construction of one of the state’s largest centers for addiction and mental health care. The Recovery & Wellness Center in New Haven’s Hill neighborhood is a $24.5 million project, taking shape at 149 Minor St. When complete, the three-story, 31,000-square-foot building will feature individual and group counseling rooms, a medical suite, 12-bed female dormitory and 40-bed male dormitory with semi-private rooms. Taylor’s influence also extends beyond Connecticut. In August, he was named board chair-elect of the National Association of Community Health Centers. He will take over the chairman role in October 2025. Prior to joining Cornell Scott-Hill in 2010, Taylor was founder and president of a healthcare consulting firm that served more than 200 community health centers nationally. He also held leadership positions with several national accounting and healthcare consulting firms, including The Lewin Group.
27 Sep, 2023
Celebratory Event Recognizes Leadership of William W. Ginsberg, Cynthia Sparer, State Rep. Toni E. Walker, Ece Tek M.D., Hill Parents Association
27 Sep, 2023
A government shutdown could thrust healthcare providers into unpredictable and uncharted territory, even though vast portions of the federal healthcare apparatus, including and Medicare and Medicaid, are immune from annual budget showdowns in Congress. According President Joe Biden's proposed budget for fiscal 2024 , which begins Sunday, 91% of Health and Human Services Department spending is categorized as mandatory, not as discretionary spending that is subject to yearly appropriations bills or periodic reauthorizations. Related: Congress faces tight deadline to extend key health programs That still leaves more than $150 billion worth of health-related spending that Biden seeks from Congress unfulfilled as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) contends with a revolt from within the GOP conference that threatens to bring the machinery of government to an abrupt halt. Exactly how Congress' failure to pass spending would impact specific agencies and the providers and patients they serve is difficult to predict. HHS released an updated contingency plan last week that details how many employees would be permitted to continue working in the absence of new appropriations and how many would be furloughed. The department also specified what vital functions would continue, even if the staff positions were not funded. According to that document, 51,293 HHS employees would stay on the job and 37,325 kept away until Congress agrees to a spending deal. Those who remain would work on programs that have mandatory funding such as Medicare, activities supported by user fees such Food and Drug Administration reviews of new pharmaceuticals and medical devices, areas supported by supplemental COVID-19 funding already on the books, and programs with multi-year funding that has already been enacted, such as the Indian Health Service. Some programs and workers affected by a shutdown would still be pressed into service—with pay delayed until after a shutdown is resolved—if their jobs are critical to treating patients or maintaining sensitive experiments, for example, at the National Institutes for Health. Others whose jobs are essential to protecting property or supporting funded activities would also be expected to work. "HHS will continue any necessary activities in the event of a lapse in appropriation," the department wrote in its contingency plan. "For example, the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response will maintain the minimal readiness for all hazards, including COVID-19, pandemic flu and hurricane responses." Nevertheless, the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response would retain just 47% of its roughly 1,000-person workforce. As with all of HHS contingency plans, this agency's blueprint does not specify what the consequences may be for the public. The White House, HHS and several departmental agencies did not respond to numerous requests for interviews. There are some important differences facing the healthcare sector under this potential shutdown that make it both more alarming and harder to anticipate than the congressional deadlock that spanned 35 days from late 2018 into early 2019. At that time, five of the 12 annual appropriations bills that Congress is supposed to pass had already been enacted, including the HHS budget. This year, lawmakers have not sent any fiscal 2024 spending measures to Biden. Another wrinkle this year is that Congress has also failed to approve reauthorizations for key health programs that are due to sunset along with the fiscal year on Saturday, including federally qualified health centers, the graduate medical education program and the National Health Service Corps. According to HHS' contingency plan, federal workers would continue to support all of those programs in a shutdown, but stakeholders are already worried. "Any disruption to our delicate financial balance, and even a brief interruption in our federal funding, could have a devastating impact and long-term impact on community health centers and on our ability to continue to treat all of the patients who walk through our doors," Michael Taylor, CEO of New Haven, Connecticut-based Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center , said at a news conference last week. National Association of Community Health Centers spokesperson Amy Simmons lamented the confluence of stalled reauthorizations and a potential federal shutdown. "It’s creating a lot of anxiety and disruption in the health center community," she said. "You can’t run healthcare delivery for 31.5 million patients on a month-to-month basis. We have thousands of advocates who are aware, concerned and reaching out to Congress." The community health centers organization is hoping that Congress at least passes a stopgap measure to extend the federally qualified health centers program and its funding. But the contingent of House Republicans forcing the showdown on Capitol Hill has already rejected the notion of a temporary fix to prevent a shutdown. Furthermore, House GOP leadership has scheduled the full-year FDA funding bill for a vote this week, but none of the other major health spending bills or reauthorizations. The White House has warned there will be consequences if Congress doesn't act by Saturday. "A Republican shutdown would stall critical research on diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s because the National Institutes of Health would be forced to delay new clinical trials," the White House said in a news release last week. "New patients, many of whom are desperately waiting for a chance at new treatment through a clinical trial, will be turned away." Like the NIH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is especially exposed. "The CDC and NIH are certainly vulnerable because they rely primarily on discretionary appropriations. They're not running mandatory programs like Medicare or Medicaid," said Paul Van de Water, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a left-leaning think tank. According to HHS, less than a quarter of NIH employees and 41% of CDC staff would remain on the job absent new appropriations. While specific short-term problems might be hard to identify, the longer-term effects of a shutdown—or just coming close to one—are easier to envision, said Beth Resnick, assistant dean for practice and training at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. For instance, this kind of political disruption is discouraging to the federal workforce, which has implications for retaining and recruiting people to manage government programs. "It's really hard to live your life like that and try to have a functioning system when everything's always up in the air," Resnick said. "The damage to morale and all that, that might even be bigger than the actual impact of whatever the shutdown ends up being."  View article on modernhealthcare.com . 
12 Sep, 2023
CONNECTICUT'S MORNING BUZZ Cornell Scott Hill Health Center: A Community of Caring
29 Aug, 2023
(New Haven, CT) – Mr. Taylor, who has been CEO of Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center since 2012, was named to the post during the National Health Center Organization’s Annual Conference Aug. 26 in San Diego, California. On October 1, 2025 he will succeed Paloma Hernandez, CEO of Urban Health Plan in New York, who ascended to the role of Board Chair at the conference. “I congratulate Michael Taylor and look forward to working with him and the NACHC board of directors to realize the goals we've set forward at such a critical point in our history,” said Paloma Hernandez, President and CEO of Urban Health Plan and Chair of the Board of Directors, NACHC. “The opportunities to address health inequities across our nation have never been greater and together we will continue the important work of strengthening our 1400 health centers in more than 15,000 medically underserved and rural communities.” Said Mr. Taylor, “I am deeply honored to be in line to lead an organization that represents so many professionals and providers dedicated to ensuring that more than 31 million individuals living in communities throughout this country receive high-quality health care.” Mr. Taylor, who has served as a member of NACHC’s board of directors for four years, will be only the second individual from Connecticut to lead the organization. The other was Cornell Scott, who help found the-then Hill Health Center in New Haven 55 years ago and served as the center’s first president for 40 years. Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont issued a statement, congratulating Mr. Taylor. “It is a great honor for the State of Connecticut to have one of its leading health care executives in line to head this national organization. Michael Taylor has been an outstanding champion for improving the health and welfare of underserved residents in our state, and we are delighted he is gaining recognition for his dedication to quality care.” He also was applauded by LindyLee Gold, Board Chair of the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center Foundation and a longtime New Haven community supporter. “For 55 years, Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center has demonstrated the enormous difference community health centers can make for patients and, under Michael Taylor’s leadership, its impact has widened and deepened. It is gratifying that he is being honored for his leadership.” NACHC, based in Bethesda, Md., was founded in 1971 and represents the more than 1,400 community health centers that provide patient care for nearly one tenth of the country. With a staff of more than 700 individuals and 27 care sites and school-based health centers throughout the New Haven area, Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center serves more than 55,000 patients a year, putting it among the top 3 percent of the nation’s community health centers. ### Media Contact: Carlah Esdaile-Bragg, Director, Marketing & Community Relations cesdaile@cornellscott.org, 203-503-3276
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