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PRESS RELEASES

June 26, 2007
CHA’s Contribution to Medical Education Reform at Harvard Earns Top Honor from the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems

June 22, 2007
New Book by Cambridge Health Alliance Author Unearths the Origins of Obesity

June 5, 2007
Cambridge Health Alliance Opens CHA Malden Family Medicine Center

May 22, 2007
Open House to Celebrate Cambridge Health Alliance's New CHA Malden Family Medicine Center

May 22, 2007
CHA Physician Receives Excellence in Teaching Award From American Psychiatric Association

May 18, 2007
CHA Welcomes New Senior Director, Nursing Finance, Gitta Gilyan

May 17, 2007
CHA Honored for Environmental Sustainability Efforts

May 14, 2007
CHA Welcomes New Director of Breast Imaging, Janet K. Baum, MD

May 7, 2007
18th Annual Fraiman Lecture on Medical Ethics:
Robert Jay Lifton, MD, on “Doctors and Torture”

May 1, 2007
Cambridge Health Alliance Psychologist Receives Lifetime Achievement Award at 2007 Victim Rights Conference

April 20, 2007
New Book from CHA Researchers Offers Strategies to Cope With Trauma

April 19, 2007
Cambridge Health Alliance Honors Academic Achievement and Community Service With Annual Estelle Paris Scholarship

April 18, 2007
2007 Victim Rights Conference: Voices United in Action and New Initiative: Violence Transformed

April 18, 2007
Cambridge Public Health Department Announces Appointment of New Chief Public Health Officer Claude-Alix Jacob

April 13, 2007
CHA Named a Top Integrated Health Network

April 10, 2007
CHA Helps Launch Ruth M. Batson Social Justice Award

April 6, 2007
Cambridge Health Alliance Welcomes New Medical Director of North Cambridge Health Center, William Kinsey, MD, MPT

April 5, 2007
CHA Researchers Explore Efficacy of High Deductible Insurance Plans

March 28, 2007
CHA Clinicians Advance Innovative Medical Education Reform

March 27, 2007
CHA Researchers Find Opioid Addiction Treatable in Primary Settings

March 22, 2007
CHA Clinicians Explore Medical Negligence Claims Against Neurologists

March 13, 2007

Tufts University Family Medicine Residency at CHA Chosen for Breakthrough Initiative

March 8, 2007
CHA Researchers Get Grant to Improve Depression Care for Minorities

March 1, 2007
Cambridge Health Alliance Gets Grant to Train Professionals in Emergency Departments to Help Patients Seeking Treatment for Substance Abuse

March 1, 2007
CHA First in Mass. to Implement Electronic Lab Reporting

February 22, 2007
Three CHA Women Promoted at Harvard Medical School

February 16, 2007
CHA Physicians Offer Cutting-Edge Insights into Medical Education Reform

February 15, 2007
Cambridge Health Alliance nurse receives award from New England Regional Black Nurses Association

February 12, 2007
Black History Month Panel Discussion on 2/20

February 6, 2007
Cambridge Health Alliance Celebrates Staff's Literary Accomplishments at Meet the Authors Event

January 30, 2007
New Data Shows Decrease in Overweight Kids in Cambridge Schools

January 12, 2007
Alliance Authors Tackle War Crimes, Autism, Troubled Kids, and Legendary Writer Bernard Malamud at Free Meet the Authors Event

January 11, 2007
Harvard Researchers at Cambridge Health Alliance Identify Key Factors in Psychiatric Disorders Across Latino Subgroups

January 11, 2007
Harvard Researchers at Cambridge Health Alliance Find U.S. Latinos are Underutilizing Mental Health Services

January 3, 2007
CHA opens state-of-the-art Gastroenterology Center

December 19, 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance welcomes new vascular surgeon

December 7, 2006
CHA to help develop innovative language services program

December 7, 2006
CHA's new family medicine program receives accreditation

November 29, 2006
CHA researchers explore health insurance coverage for vulnerable populations

November 15, 2006
CHA author explores how play helps kids with autistic disorders

November 7, 2006
Harvard researchers at ICH author study about mental health screening on children

November 1 , 2006
Nurse authors book about transformation of child psychiatric unit

November 1 , 2006
Free November workshop for parents and caregivers of children and adolescents with mood disorders

October 9, 2006
Senator Edward M. Kennedy to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award for Role in Healthcare

October 9, 2006
CHA to Host Revolutionary and FREE Academic Symposium in Cambridge, October 14th

October 2, 2006
CHA clinician secures major grant to teach social skills to adolescents with developmental disorders

September 29, 2006
Free October workshop for parents and caregivers of children and adolescents with mood disorders

September 15, 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance featured on Careers in Healthcare

August 21, 2006
Chief of surgery authors new paper on potential for microchips in surgery and operating rooms

August 7, 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance Clinicians in Psychiatry Study School Violence

August 1, 2006 - Media Alert
City of Cambridge Responds to Heat Emergency

July 24, 2006
Free Workshops at Center for Child & Adolescent Development

July 21, 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance Welcomes New Appointees to Board Of Trustees

July 14, 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance Psychologist Honored by American Psychoanalytic Association

July 13, 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance Offers Free Workshops at Center for Child and Adolescent Development

July 10, 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance Beaming for New Whidden Emergency Department

July 6, 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance Psychologist Wins Ticho Award

June 21, 2006
Alliance Receives Grant to help fight breast cancer

June 12 , 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance Names New Director of Perioperative Services

June 9, 2006
Alliance Occupational Health helps screen workers exposed to Beryllium

June 5, 2006
Alliance Psychiatrist Wins Harvard Teaching Prize

June 5, 2006
Alliance Employee Appointed Examiner for Baldrige National Quality Award

June 2, 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance Welcomes New Gastroenterologist

June 1, 2006
Alliance Receives Award from MassExcellence

May 26, 2006
Alliance CEO comments on the loss of Representative Connolly

May 25, 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance researchers find U.S. Residents less healthy and less able to access health care than Canadians

May 17, 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance names new COO

April 19, 2006
The Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation donates funds to Cambridge Breast Center

April 13, 2006
Five Cambridge Health Alliance nurses graduate from in-house workforce development program

April 13, 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance and Longy School of Music collaborate on a series of hospital concerts

April 5, 2006
Two Cambridge Health Alliance Psychiatrists Named Distinguished Fellows by American Psychiatric Association

April 4, 2006
CEO of Cambridge Health Alliance weighs in on health reform

April 4, 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance appoints Chief of Geriatrics

March 27, 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance nurses earn orthopaedics certification

March 17, 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance appoints new Chief Nursing Officer

March 15, 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance Social Worker Authors Book On Famous Father

February 15, 2006
The Boston Globe GLOBE EDITORIAL Beyond the health pool

February 14, 2006
The Boston Globe Letters to the Editor - Muddy picture of hospital billing

February 13, 2006
The Cambridge Health Alliance weighs in on debate over the Uncompensated Care Pool

January 9, 2006
Cambridge Health Alliance Physician recieves grant to study patient discharge process

December 5, 2005 - Teen Suicide and Antidepressants: Harvard Psychiatrists review black box warning

November 28, 2005 - Cambridge Health Alliance Community Open House for Cambridge Breast Center and Breast Imaging/ Mammography Suite

November 28, 2005 - Cambridge and Somerville join forces with local farms and schools to battle childhood obesity.

November 16, 2005 - Alliance research program awarded federal grant to study Lithium in children

October 24, 2005 - Eli Wallach returns to Boston: stage-screen acting family alongside

October 14, 2005 - Eli Wallach to visit Cambridge: Famed Actor of stage and screen Nov. 8

October 7, 2005 - Eli Wallach to visit Brandeis Nov. 7

September 21 , 2005 - Cambridge Health Alliance VP Donna Fox wins Modern Healthcare Magazine 2005 "Up & Comer" Award

September 22, 2005 - Cambridge Health Alliance Launches New Center For Child and Adolescent Development.

September 14, 2005 - Cambridge Health Alliance has recruited two new staff Radiologists Kitt Shaffer, MD, PhD, and Stephan Auerbach, MD.

September 5, 2005 - Megan Littlefield, MD, joins Revere Family Health.

August 29, 2005 - Race and Ethnicity are Factors in Teen Mental Health Issues. New study by Cambridge Health Alliance and University of Texas researchers.

August 18, 2005 - Cambridge Health Alliance leader elected to American Hospital Association Board of Trustees.

August 15, 2005 - Cambridge Health Alliance Board of Trustees attracts distinguished and diverse appointees.

July 12, 2005 - Cambridge Health Alliance researcher contributes to new study on traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents.

July 19, 2005 - Cambridge Health Alliance recieves NOVA Award from American Hospital Association.

July 14, 2005 - Cambridge Health Alliance Nurses Honored.

Febuary 15, 2005 - Cambridge Health Alliance is named one of the top integrated health networks in the country for second year in a row!

Febuary 4, 2005 - Amanda Klein, MD, joins East Somerville Health Center

Febuary 4, 2005 - Second Round of funding helps Cambridge Health Alliance care for patients with chronic disease

Febuary 2, 2005 - Illness and Medical Bills Cause Half of All Bankruptcies - 2 Million Americans Financially Ruined Each Year

January 5, 2005 - Kate Champion Murphy has been appointed Vice President of Philanthropy and Executive Director of the Alliance Foundation for Community Health

January 12, 2005 - Cambridge Health Alliance Granted Harvard Medical School Affiliation

 

THE ALLIANCE IN THE NEWS
December 19.2005
Psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport | Meeting the Minds:
When kids cry out, she gets the call
(registration required for access) Boston Globe

December 11, 2005
Whidden Hospital Launches Major ER Expansion Project; Patient volume expected to growth (registration required for access)

December 11, 2005
Healthy Pursuit (registration required for access)

December 9, 2005
Bright Light for a Blue Christmas

December 8, 2005
Breast Center Offers Personalized Care

December 5,2005
New Study Teen Suicide and Antidepressants

HMS Hospitals Offer Aid to Hurricane Victims
HMS Web Weekly
, September 20, 2005

2005 Up and Comers
Modern Healthcare
, September 19, 2005

Mission Katrina: City, residents organize to help hurricane relief effort
Cambridge Chronicle, September 8, 2005

Communication Breakdown
Boston Globe Health/Science
, September 5, 2005

DIET: More people turning to hypnosis for weight loss
Newsday, September 4, 2005

Determined to achieve - Dennis Keefe
Northeastern Alumni Magazine, September 2005

Health Care's Racial Gap still an issue, study says
WCVB, Channel 5, August 21, 2005

$50m test seeks to end doctors' paper chase
Boston Globe, August 29, 2005