Latest Healthimprovement Podcast Episodes
The Special Challenges of Women’s Heart Health
Healthy Communities News - February 20, 2023 08:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHeart disease is the leading cause of death for women. In fact, 1 in 5 deaths among women is due to a cardiovascular issue. But many people don’t fully appreciate the particular risks women face when it comes to heart health. In this episode, our host Melissa Eagan speaks with Dr. Joann...
Project Power Tackles Childhood Diabetes with Fun
Healthy Communities News - January 13, 2023 17:42 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsReports from the CDC of a potential future surge in the number of young people with type 2 diabetes by 700%, and of type 1 diabetes by 65% over the next four decades is alarming. But there is cause for hope, thanks to an incredible initiative called Project Power that does empower kids...
Feeding Families in Denver -- The Power of Food
Healthy Communities News - December 13, 2022 13:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFewer families in Denver, Colorado will be going to sleep hungry at night now! That’s thanks to amazing new Goodr pop-up grocery stores that opened recently to service the Denver Public School system’s Colfax Elementary and Place Bridge Academy. Bolstered by a partnership with sponsors...
The Joy of Being Able to See
Healthy Communities News - October 17, 2022 16:29 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSome 350 people came to the Metropolitan Baptist Church’s facility in Newark, New Jersey over the course of a three-day vision clinic recently. They left, not only with a new prescription, but stylish glasses they had chosen – all for free! This was thanks to the OneSight EssilorLuxott...
Introducing Dr. Khaldun, Our First Chief Health Equity Officer
Healthy Communities News - July 27, 2022 08:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDr. Khaldun will lead the strategy to advance health equity for patients, members, providers, customers, and communities, having served as the Chief Medical Executive for the State of Michigan and Chief Deputy Director for Health in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, ...
Suicide Prevention Goes “988”
Healthy Communities News - July 13, 2022 16:36 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsReaching out to help prevent suicide will be a lot simpler – starting July 16th – when anyone across the country can just dial “988” to receive lifesaving counsel 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And Melissa takes us inside the Didi Hirsch Suicide Prevention Center, the nation’s first, wh...
The Story Behind Charity's House
Healthy Communities News - May 26, 2022 14:37 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA four-story, 36-unit apartment complex that will provide affordable housing is going to be built in the booming Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. And Melissa tracks down the story behind Charity’s House, as it will be called -- tracing it back to Thomas “Pistol Pete” Albri...
A New Normal?
Healthy Communities News - April 21, 2022 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAs mandates are being lifted across the country after over two years of pandemic waves, it feels like we’re all coming back to life again. But how do we go about finding a new normal? And what exactly does that mean? Melissa speaks with those who are living it, in real time - in New Y...
America’s first suicide prevention center in Culver City, California
Healthy Communities News - February 24, 2022 14:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIf suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in America, why aren’t more people talking openly about it? Melissa does just that, with staff members of the Didi Hirsch Suicide Prevention Center, the first of its kind in the U.S. We also hear from Cara McNulty, President of Behavioral Hea...
COVID-19, kids & Dr. Kangaroo!
Healthy Communities News - February 16, 2022 08:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMelissa speaks with Dr. Nitin Gupta, the founder & CEO of Rivertowns Pediatrics in New York, about protecting his community throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as his own health challenges. He says, “I mirrored [my practice] after the pediatrician I had. He was always available for...
2021: Our year in health
Healthy Communities News - December 17, 2021 08:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhile 2021 has certainly been a rollercoaster year, Melissa finds hope throughout this past year’s coverage on the podcast. She shares some of her favorite moments where people across the country have been galvanized to connect in new ways, and to help others, all the more!
The First Wave
Healthy Communities News - December 08, 2021 14:16 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat went on inside hospitals during the height of the pandemic? Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman had exclusive access to one of New York’s largest and hardest-hit medical centers for his moving documentary, The First Wave. Melissa speaks with him, as we...
Chasing a dream… and a cure!
Healthy Communities News - November 03, 2021 21:53 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCory Greenberg had a promising career as a professional bicycle racer ahead of him when he was confronted with inflammatory bowel disease, and suddenly didn’t know if he’d ever be able to ride a bike again, much less compete. Melissa speaks with Cory about his experiences, and founding R...
PapaPals: Family On-Demand
Healthy Communities News - September 23, 2021 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCOVID-19 may have exposed the cracks in our social networks, but an organization called Papa has been filling in — especially for those who are older and isolated. It’s an on-demand service to provide companionship and assistance to those who need it. In this Healthy Communities News po...
Bringing change to Pittsburgh with WITC, Part 2
Healthy Communities News - August 27, 2021 07:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNow that a new Workforce and Innovation Talent Center (or WITC) has opened in the Hill District community of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, host Melissa Eagan speaks with some of those who will make change real, moving forward. Hear from the WITC manager, Sean Ware, a communications and mark...
Bringing change to Pittsburgh with WITC
Healthy Communities News - July 29, 2021 17:35 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMelissa speaks with John White, Senior Advisor, Workforce Initiatives for CVS Health, and Vincent Campbell, Senior Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church about the WITC launching in Pittsburgh’s historic Hill District, where the average income is currently between $14,000 and $17,000 a year....
National HIV Testing Day — Ending the Epidemic by 2030
Healthy Communities News - June 24, 2021 15:35 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMelissa speaks with Joel Helle, Vice President of Physician Services about the feasibility of reaching the CDC’s goal of decreasing HIV infections 90% by 2030. She speaks to Marco Benjamin, National Liaison, HIV/Sexual Health at CVS Health, and Jen Laws, a CDC HIV Ambassador and public ...
Making Hope Possible in Baltimore, MD
Healthy Communities News - June 16, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe speak with Stephen Fontz, CVS District Leader, as well asBishop Donte Hickman from the South Baptist Church, which has stood firm against what he calls, “the suburban flight and the urban blight.” He’s been dealing with vaccination hesitancy in his own special way. By way of example,...
Hospital heroes: Mental health in the pandemic
Healthy Communities News - March 22, 2021 13:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode of Healthy Communities News, we speak in even greater detail with Randy Phelps, as well as Dr. Jonathan Wiesen, a pulmonary physician and critical care specialist who runs COVID-19 emergency rooms. And psychiatrist Dr. Laura Ebner, who had already been volunteering for G...
Educating a new generation of health care leaders
Healthy Communities News - February 17, 2021 15:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPeople of color represent more than 25 percent of the total U.S. population, but only 10 percent of the country’s health care professionals. A new scholarship funded by the CVS Health Foundation and managed by the United Negro College Fund, Inc. (UNCF) hopes to improve that balance. Hea...
Vials of hope: COVID-19 vaccinations are rolled out
Healthy Communities News - January 19, 2021 17:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWith two COVID-19 vaccines now authorized by the FDA for emergency use, we’ve stepped up to help administer vaccinations across the country. So, for our first 2021 podcast, we’re taking you behind-the-scenes with Dr. Jocelyn Shrum, one of the CVS pharmacists responsible for training peop...
2020: A year like no other
Healthy Communities News - December 23, 2020 14:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAs we look back on 2020, we’ll take you from Atlanta’s Westside, where its civil rights history still inspires today’s movements; to Boston, where a gutsy nonprofit that’s been using food as medicine for 30 years has reinvented itself in the face of the coronavirus. As well as Miami-Dade...
San José Clinic: Serving Houston for 98 years, and going strong
Healthy Communities News - November 10, 2020 18:45 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode, we head to Houston to learn about the integral role this small clinic has been playing in the community for almost a century. When the pandemic hit, the staff quickly adapted to ensure their patients could continue to access the care they needed.
Branches in Miami supports students and their families amid COVID-19
Healthy Communities News - October 09, 2020 15:30 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe coronavirus has touched all of our lives in one way or another. Children, in particular, are in an ongoing state of flux. Many classes in schools and colleges across the country have been upended. We did find an oasis in South Florida where an organization called Branches has been w...
Community Servings Boston: The astonishing power of food
Healthy Communities News - September 02, 2020 13:30 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCommunity Servings in Boston, Massachusetts, started in 1990 as a program to feed a small group of AIDS patients suffering from malnutrition. It has turned into a community hub that provides thousands of medically tailored meals each month, job training, and so much more. The COVID-19 pa...
ADA turns 30: Abilities in Abundance
Healthy Communities News - August 03, 2020 15:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis year marks the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which is more important now than ever before. Recent national unemployment rates for individuals with disabilities is more than double that of abled people, so we thought it was a perfect opportunity to h...
The importance of testing, the power of community
Healthy Communities News - July 08, 2020 15:01 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn the podcast, we explore these topics even more deeply with Breanna Lathrop. We also caught up with Dr. Bill Warren, the visionary who founded Good Samaritan some 21-and-a-half years ago. John Ahmann is the president of the Westside Future Fund and an Atlanta native who brings an hist...
Teaming up to fight the pandemic in New Orleans
Healthy Communities News - May 29, 2020 17:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNew Orleans is no stranger to adversity, and relies on its deep community roots to unite residents as they band together to respond to the pandemic. In this month’s podcast episode, we spoke to Danielle Taylor, a CVS Pharmacy District Leader and both of her parents, Jessie and Thais Ard...
Leading cause of death in women: Taking a deep dive into heart health
Healthy Communities News - February 25, 2020 16:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsYou can be young, look and feel healthy and still be at risk for a heart attack or stroke. Surprised? Healthy Communities News spoke with Dr. Mosca, a volunteer medical expert with the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women movement, to get a better of understanding of women’s he...
Miami’s Vibrant Little Havana Community Teams Up for Better Health
Healthy Communities News - January 29, 2020 14:32 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTo really know what a community needs, you have to live there. Talk with your neighbors over the back fence. See the issues with your own eyes. That’s what makes the Live Healthy Little Havana program a success. Neighborhood residents, working as community liaisons, are at the heart of the work ...
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