December 7, 2015 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Arts & Culture

🔒Nonprofit Profile: TheaterWorks Inc.

Savings Institute Bank & Trust’s official Relay for Life team, Bankers for Life, has reached gold status by raising over $5,000 for the American Cancer Society Windham Relay for Life. […]

Health Care

🔒Santiago directs most needy patients to better health

Rebecca Santiago is the hands-on person most responsible for fulfilling the mission of the Curtis D. Robinson Center for Health Equity at St. Francis Hospital.

Insurance

🔒GoodWorks Insurance donates to community health programs

Glastonbury-based GoodWorks Insurance recently gave a $10,000 grant to Community Health Programs (CHP), which provides medical and dental services to all.

Health Care

🔒Gates fights for mental health patients’ rights

Heathers Gates' advocacy for the mentally ill emerged from a class on mental health law that required her to volunteer at Northampton State Hospital.

Health Care

🔒Ferrer advances new pediatric cancer treatments

Dr. Fernando Ferrer, chief physician executive and surgeon-in-chief at Connecticut Children's Medical Center, said there's something that seems very wrong seeing children with cancer.

News

🔒Voya employees choose Grace Academy as crowdfunding recipient

The employees of Voya Financial Inc. recently chose Grace Academy as the recipient of $25,000 through the company's crowdfunding program.

Health Care

🔒Health Care Heroes perform daily ‘miracles’

During a recent public forum in Hartford a local, high-profile hospital executive warned that the healthcare system...

Health Care

🔒Interim HealthCare innovates to keep CT’s aging at home

Clinical innovation is nothing new for Interim HealthCare of Hartford, which for years has developed new ways to help care for people at home, thus reducing hospitalizations and cutting costs.

Health Care

🔒Scheinblum provides care, comfort to cancer patients

You've been diagnosed with cancer. Potentially terminal or not, your family members are overcome with grief and having a hard time keeping it together.

Economy & Labor

🔒Employers focus on health care cost shifts, wellness

Q&A talks about changes in employer health benefits with Silas M. Warner, client advocate/vice president of Willis Group's human capital practice in Hartford.

Insurance

🔒Hartford Healthcare execs receive national recognition

Two Hartford Healthcare executives were recently recognized by leading industry publications.Elliot Joseph, Hartford Healthcare's president and CEO,...

Insurance

🔒$1.2M paid for Portland industrial building

Hartford commercial broker Colliers International reports a series of Hartford area property sales and leasing transactions. Colliers was sole broker, except where noted.

News

🔒Ross pushes clean hands for patient safety

When Dr. Jack Ross assumed his role as the director of infection control at Hartford HealthCare in 2013, he noticed a significant cultural challenge: hand hygiene.

Economy & Labor

🔒CT must weigh true costs of transportation overhaul

Investing billions of dollars into Connecticut's transportation infrastructure will create an economic boom in our state, lifting the tides of residents and businesses alike.

Health Care

🔒Meet the Judges

Angela Mattie is a professor and chair of the department of healthcare management and organizational leadership, director...

Health Care

🔒Olsen volunteers to help the poor, sick

After 30 years as a successful physician, Dr. Pauline Olsen could have spent her golden years just about anywhere. But since retiring nearly every week she is in the impoverished north end of Hartford.

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Hartford Flavor Co. pitches ‘healthy’ liqueur market

The epiphany for LeLaneia and Tom Dubay to start their new liqueur business came at a holiday party two years ago.

News

🔒Susan G. Komen CT honors Pink Tie Guys in Hartford

The Susan G. Komen Connecticut breast cancer foundation recently honored 23 local men as the 2015 class of Pink Tie Guys.

Arts & Culture

🔒Satterberg’s therapies restore health to afflicted patients

Upon meeting Ruth Satterberg for the first time, you would never suspect that she is a key figure in the success of the Hartford HealthCare Rehabilitation Network.

Economic Development

🔒A bigger voice in Congress for New England small businesses

Small businesses are the bedrock of New England's economy. That's true not only in New Hampshire — home to just 1.3 million people but more than 130,000 small businesses — but all across the region.

Arts & Culture

🔒How ‘serial winners’ maintain long-term success

We all know people with similar track records of success. How do they get it all done? They have the same 24 hours a day that we do.

Insurance

🔒Cyber liability insurance a must for small biz

With the holidays upon us, the phrases “data breach” or “cyber attack” are almost certain to reach the public consciousness, undoubtedly in reference to some large retail corporation.

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