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For Your Health Columns
2025
2024
November – Health for Rural People and Places
October – New York State of Health Open Enrollment Approaching
July – Summer Health for Seniors
May – Indestructible Vapes: A Problem in More Ways than One
April – CARTS: Connecting You to Care
March – How Social Isolation is a Public Health Problem We Can Solve
January – How big tobacco markets to youth on screens big and small
2023
December – Rurality and health
November – Treating tobacco dependence
October – New York State of Health open enrollment approaching
September – Coming to a town near you: Lead service line inventory
August – Low nicotine cigarettes and harm reduction
July – How you can help Twin County residents with cancer
June – Alcohol – the Oldest Drug
May – Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels Delayed Again
April – Banning Menthol Puts People Before Profits
March-Youth Rated Films Should be Smoke-Free
February – Governor Proposes Ban On All Flavored Tobacco
January – CARTS: On A Mission to Help You
2022
December – How we plan for healthy people
November – the Great American Smokeout
October – Exciting Changes in Health Insurance
September – How the Pandemic Ravaged NY’s Hospitals
August – Pets and Secondhand Smoke
July – Medicare Savings Program
June – Preventing Tick-Borne Diseases
March – Youth-Rated Films Should Be Smoke Free
February – Advocating for Rural Health
January – Teens Are Smoking Less, Vaping More
Earned Media
Canaan Congregational Church partners with NY Connects – Columbia County for Resource Roundtable series Hudson Valley 360, 7/20//24
Canaan Congregational Church Partners with NY Connects – Columbia County and The Healthcare Consortium to Offer the Community a “Resource Roundtable Series” Hudson Valley 360, 6/12/24
Canaan UCC partners with NY Connects – Columbia County, The Healthcare Consortium and AARP to offer “FraudWatch” program The Daily Gazette, 8/30/2024
The Healthcare Consortium to celebrate 25 years of the Children and Adult Rural Transportation Service Hudson Valley 360, 7/24/24
Local healthcare hero: ‘Nicotine Ninja’ — Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Healthcare Consortium holds annual recognition event The Daily Gazette, 10/13/23
Healthcare Consortium to recognize CARTS drivers at annual recognition event The Daily Gazette, 09/19/23
The Healthcare Consortium receives generous donation from the Sheriff’s Office The Daily Gazette, 12/21/22
Healthcare Consortium on the job through virus crisis The Columbia Paper, 4/23/20
Healthcare Navigator appointments available The Daily Gazette, 12/8/20
Sheriff’s office third annual ‘No-Shave November’ has begun The Daily Gazette, 11/26/19
Health consortium first to sign pledge The Daily Gazette, 8/30/16
Healthcare Consortium receives $1,000 donation The Daily Gazette, 6/10/16
NY Connects looks to help long-term care patients The Daily Gazette, 08/14/13
Consortium gives funding rundown The Daily Gazette, 10/1/12
Car dealer shows support for Cancer Fund Walk The Daily Gazette, 05/18/12
County residents tapped for healthcare views The Daily Gazette, 11/13/10
Healthcare Consortium seeks consumer opinions The Daily Gazette, 11/11/10
Healthcare relief for residents The Daily Gazette, 7/15/10
NY Connects, Columbia County can help loved ones Hudson Valley 360, 12/23/09
Young mother of five fighting cancer: HealthcareConsortium in Hudson helping out The Daily Gazette, 11/10/06
Community Healthcare Consortium awarded grant The Daily Gazette, 01/01/04