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Dr. Catherine Latham and several staff from LCHC’s School Based Health Centers attended at State House Briefing on School Based Health Care, sponsored by the MA Association for School Based Health Care.  Dr. Latham spoke about the importance of Lynn’s 7 SBHC’s during her speech.

3 LCHC providers were recognized for community service during Lynn’s MLK Day celebration on January 21, 2013.

There are few simple steps that all of us can take to ensure that this outbreak impacts as few people as possible. Here are five simple things you can do.  By Joyce Reen, RN, Associate Director of Nursing, Lynn Community Health Center

Three Massachusetts Community Health Centers are nearly prepared for new accountable care payment models, but need to fill some gaps in health IT functionality and care coordination, according to a readiness study.

Homelink Help Desk is a partnership between the Lynn Community Health Center and the Mass Coalition for the Homeless.

Requests from needy Massachusetts residents for food, heating oil and housing are up, according to human service workers, including housing advocates assisting Lynn Community Health Center patients.

Lynn Community Health Center’s August 9th, 2012 flash mob during National Health Center Week was designed to raise awareness about the health center, as well as to promote healthy behavior. “Live Well. Be Well.” involved over 80 health center staff and community members.

Representative Steve Walsh and former Lynn mayor Thomas Costin illustrated the melding of two generations of politicians advocating for universal health care at a benefit for the Lynn Community Health Center Thursday night.

Lynn Community Health Center provides behavioral health services for Lynn’s Connery School, contributing to its success.

Four community health centers in Massachusetts, including one in Lynn, have been awarded a total of $600,000 to support efforts to treat people with asthma, diabetes and cancer in underserved communities.… The grants, which come from a multi-state settlement with pharmaceutical manufacturers, will be used to expand the use of community health workers. Each of the centers identified goals to use their health workers to help patients receive quality health services and improve access to care in ways that can reduce health disparities and control costs.

The Lynn Community Health Center won a national health video contest for the flash mob it put on in downtown Lynn in August in celebration of National Health Week.

The video version of the flash mob was one of 16 finalists in the National Health Center Week video contest, which included contestants from health centers across the nation celebrating health center week in various ways.