An Update from Vincent G. Capece, Jr., President & CEO of Middlesex Health |
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Dear Friend,
As we approach the busy holiday season, I want to express my gratitude for your continued support of Middlesex Health.
We are pleased to share the following highlights with you in this quarterly update. Your commitment helps us continue to make our community a healthier place to live and work.
We welcome your input or questions about our programs and initiatives. Please feel free to contact our Office of Philanthropy at 860-358-6200 or donate@midhosp.org.
Kind regards,
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Vincent G. Capece, Jr.
President/CEO
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We are grateful to the many donors, businesses and foundations for their support of our campaign to meet the need for autism, developmental and mental health services in our community. We have raised more than three quarters of our $2 million goal thanks to their generosity.
The Mayer Center in Essex offers team-based comprehensive services in one location. This new center is located in renovated space at Middlesex Health’s Essex Medical Building, and includes a sensory gym, private treatment spaces, and group therapy space.
The Crescent Center in Middletown will be the new home for outpatient mental health services for children and adults in a renovated 54,000 sq. ft. facility. Services for adults include intensive day treatment, individual and group therapy, an evening recovery program, a new young adult clinic, and the first comprehensive postpartum clinic to open in Middlesex County.
To support the campaign and to learn more, please visit our website.
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Chris Crooks is an example of a Middlesex Health patient who has benefited from Middlesex Health’s membership in the Mayo Clinic Care Network. This relationship provides Middlesex with access to information, knowledge and expertise from Mayo Clinic, and one of the most tangible benefits for patients is eConsults, or electronic second opinions from a Mayo Clinic specialist.
Since we joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network in 2015, more than 1,600 patients have benefited from eConsults — Crooks included! Crooks, a cancer patient, received a second opinion, and it changed the course of his treatment. Learn more about his story here.
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Middlesex Health staff and volunteers raised more than $156,000 to support many health system programs and services, including the Campaign for a Brighter Future for Autism and Mental Health Services and the Helping Hands Assistance Fund. Donations were made as part of our annual employee and volunteer giving campaign.
The Middlesex Health employee and volunteer giving campaign began in 1990 and has become a health system tradition. Donations now total more than $3.2 million. Employees and volunteers have supported every major capital project at Middlesex including new facilities and investments in new technology as well as programs that support people facing a crisis or a major medical issue.
The Helping Hands Assistance Fund helps both employees and patients who face critical needs and are suffering financial hardships due to circumstances beyond their control, such as a fire or severe illness. There is a confidential application process and certain requirements must be met to be eligible.
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The U.S. government estimates that a million people remain out of work because of symptoms relating to long COVID, including fatigue, fever, shortness of breath, “brain fog”, among others.
While we are still learning about long COVID, there are programs that can help address those health challenges, including Middlesex Health’s Post-COVID Rehabilitation Program.
What is the best way to prevent long COVID?
One of the many reasons to get the new bivalent booster is because studies have shown the vaccine reduces the risk of long COVID.
Middlesex Health administers COVID vaccines, including booster shots, in its primary care offices. To make an appointment, click here.
How Middlesex can help
Middlesex Health’s physical, occupational and speech therapists can help those who experience long COVID symptoms through its Post-COVID Rehabilitation Program. This multidisciplinary team creates individualized treatment plans to ensure that individual concerns are being addressed.
Treatment options could include everything from endurance training and cognitive treatment to customized exercise programs and pulmonary education.
Additional resources are also available through this program, including behavioral health services and nutritional counseling.
For more information about Middlesex’s Post-COVID Rehabilitation Program, click here.
In addition, Middlesex Health’s Center for Integrative Medicine has helped several long COVID patients through acupuncture, particularly those who experienced fatigue, altered taste, loss of smell, and cognitive dysfunction (brain fog).
Acupuncture is a form of integrative medicine, and it involves the insertion of very thin needles through your skin at strategic points on your body. It is offered both in Middletown and Westbrook. For more information about acupuncture and other forms of integrative medicine, click here.
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Shay Cantner
Ms. Cantner, of Old Lyme, is a former teacher and educational leader with experience in public school classrooms, Early Head Start, and professional development. Most recently, she launched her own venture, Elea, a software platform that streamlines paperwork and documentation for children with special needs and special needs providers. She earned a bachelor’s degree in early childhood special education from the University of Delaware, a master’s degree from St. Joseph’s University in West Hartford, and a certificate in education leadership from UConn. Ms. Cantner serves on the Middlesex Health Campaign for a Brighter Future, the Lyme-Old Lyme Soccer Club Board, the Lymes' Youth Service Bureau Board and the UConn Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Advisory Board.
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Jill Hartenstein
Ms. Hartenstein, of Old Saybrook, is a special needs para educator at Old Saybrook Middle School, and she was a Clinton Public Schools’ teacher for more than a decade. She is a founding member of the Middlesex Health Women’s Wellness Fund and co-chair of the Middlesex Health Campaign for a Brighter Future. She served on the Old Saybrook Education Foundation’s Board of Directors and is a Girl Scouts volunteer. She earned a master’s degree in English from Central Connecticut State University, a teaching certificate in English and secondary education from Buffalo State College, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Vermont.
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Andrea Cooper Webster
Ms. Webster, of East Haddam, is a behavioral health consultant with Advanced Behavioral Health in Middletown and has worked as an early childhood consultant, a behavioral health clinician and a family advocate coordinator. She serves as co-chair of cultural arts programming for the East Haddam Elementary PTO, is a member of The Montessori Parent Education Group at Montessori Circle of Friends, a volunteer with Connecticut Against Gun Violence, and a member of The Middlesex Health Women’s Wellness Fund. Ms. Webster earned a master’s degree from Boston University in public health and a bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies from UConn.
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