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Schedule Your New Year Visit to Dentist Today! Vital to Your Health! No Need To Fear COVID Tele-Dental Option Also Available CHCB, Inc.’s Dr. Shilpa Kapoor, DDS explains: https://chcb.net/erie-county-news-events/

TUES., JAN. 5 @ 11:30 AM CHCB COLOR ME HEALTHY Facebook Live Host: @kshallowhorn , Proj Dir, CHCB, Inc. Guest: Kimberly Kadziolka, Lighthouse Program Director, Community Resources for Justice ... @CR_Justice WATCH: https://facebook.com/CHCB34/

ICYMI: Three ways to help refugees and each other create a healthy path By Tim O'Shei The Buffalo News @ReportingHealth... https://tinyurl.com/y35m4he3

‘If You Love Someone, Take Them to the Dentist!’ Jan. 2021 in https://buffalohealthyliving.com/ @PublisherBHL

Happy New Year from the staff at the Community Health Center of Niagara. Stay Safe, Welcome 2021

Your Voice Matters! Make Sure it's Heard! Early Voting runs through Mon. Nov. 2. You may vote at any one of 37 Early Voting Centers across @ErieCountyNY Make a plan and Join our Team at The Community Health Center of Buffalo, Inc. to Voice Your Vote! #VoteWithMe@CHCB

5:30 PM -- VIRTUAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TOWN HALL Moderator: Honorable Lenora Foote-Beavers, Buffalo City Court Judge Dr. LaVonne Ansari, CEO @ChcbInc to join distinguished panel RSVP Susan Vito, [email protected] 716-845-2623 To join meeting: https://tinyurl.com/yy9pkgo9

ICYMI: COLOR ME HEALTHY Facebook Live Video Cast Hosted by Karl Shallowhorn, Project Director, CHCB, Inc. Guest: Leah Halton-Pope, Senior Advisor to New York State Assembly Majority Leader @CPeoplesStokes Topic: The 2020 Election: What’s at Stake... WATCH: https://tinyurl.com/y4h88osf See more

The 2020 Election: What's at Stake

COLOR ME HEALTHY 11:30 AM to Noon Facebook Live Video Cast Hosted by Karl Shallowhorn, Project Manager, CHCB, Inc. Guest: Leah Halton-Pope, Senior Advisor to New York State Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes ... Topic: The 2020 Election: What’s at Stake WATCH: https://www.facebook.com/CHCB34/ See more

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

All MC’s, DJ’s and Musicians we are looking for theme music for our new show. We will be talking about community health, community building, giving encouragemen...t and positive vibes across Niagara Falls and Western New York. We believe this show will be all the way live. Look for us November 6, share this and have all interested contact me at 716-278-4418, ext. 5315 Outreach Project Manager Charles Walker See more

HEALTHY RESPONSE Health center publishes its first clinical study A Black patient in his late 20s reached out by phone in mid-March to Dr. Kenyani Davis, an internist with the Community Health Center of Buffalo.... The otherwise healthy young man complained of achiness and fatigue. His breathing was labored. He feared he had Covid-19 but with the availability of only 200 tests in the region, set aside for hospital patients and front-line workers, Davis could only go with her gut. I told myself, ‘We’ve got to start keeping detailed notes,’ she said. That led to a talk with health center CEO LaVonne Ansari, the creation of an interdisciplinary Covid-19 task force within the practice, and the first of what center health care providers expect will be several clinical studies on the best ways to treat patients of color with the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Primary care is the foundation of all care, Ansari said. If we don’t tell our stories, and establish the research, then we will never have a real voice. A staff of 150, including 30 health care providers, handles care for 20,000 patients in the federally funded health center, at sites in Buffalo, Cheektowaga Lockport and Niagara Falls. Roughly 90% of patients are Black. Davis wrote the first study based on how she was able to help diagnose a blood clot in her young patient through telemedicine. The clinical case report recently was published in the Wiley Online Library, which features peer reviewed research from thousands of sources across scientific disciplines. The health center task force comprises leaders from its dental, medical, pediatrics, mental health, pharmacy and physical therapy teams. Members meet to detail the most common and troublesome cases and, using a whiteboard, compare notes to improve treatment protocols. For Davis, the need to treat a young Black man through telehealth, and the inability to verify he had Covid-19, symbolized how we become vulnerable when we’re not connected to care. A dozen days after onset of symptoms, he told Davis he was suffering with back pain, an atypical Covid-19 symptom. The doctor spent much of that call stressing that her patient steer clear of his children and partner. She asked how he was feeling otherwise. He said he had blood in his urine. As a primary care provider, my awareness heightened, Davis said. And that’s one of the primary purposes of the case study: to alert other providers that even patients without risk factors can develop blood clots as a result of Covid. Without the diagnosis and team treatment, she said, he would have died, in his house, right by his newborn baby. Scott Scanlon

Buffalo Center for Health Equity Mental & Emotional Wellbeing During COVID19 Series Panel includes:... David Shenk, Commissioner of EC Senior Services & Director of EC Veteran Services 10-22 6:30pm Register: https://www.buffalohealthequity.org/

National statistics domestic violence fact sheet state that 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner. ...This include a range of behaviors (slapping, shoving, pushing). and in some cases might not be considered domestic violence. 1 in 7 women and 1 in 25 men have been injured by an intimate partner. The Community Health Center of Niagara join Pinnacle Community Services by hanging the purple ribbon recognizing October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Pinnacle is a domestic violence service in Niagara Falls NY, they provide help for people dealing with domestic abuse. Contact them at 716-209-0909 See more

OCTOBER 23 COVID-19 UPDATE: 15 new positive cases 2,018 total positives to date (isolations + recoveries + deaths) 96 active cases (90 isolating at hom...e, 6 in hospital) 1,820 recovered 102 deaths 118,280 people tested (source: https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/ ) The Niagara County heat map that breaks the positive cases down by municipality can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/ybgzmusw Data on nursing home fatalities is tracked by New York State. That information can be found here: https://www.health.ny.gov//covid-19/fatalities_nursing_hom Information and resources relative to 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) can be found at: https://www.niagaracounty.com//2019-Novel-Coronavirus-COVI