By Amy Simmons Farber

With national and state leaders worrying about fiscal health and costs,  Connecticut’s health center leaders  swung into action with their own homegrown remedy.  The result was a clever outreach campaign with a simple message: “Your Personal Prescription to Cut CT’s High Health Care Costs.”   The CT Community Health Care Alliance also followed through with a big prescription bottle (with mint lifesavers inside) and directions on how to effectively use the medication at a time when the state’s hospital utilization rates have grown to over 429,000 visits.   The prescription campaign made a big splash at the state capitol, also.   We thought it was a creative way to get the message through to decision-makers about the value of health centers to produce results and cost-savings.  Our hat goes off to the Community Health Center Association of Connecticut , and the brilliant minds of Connecticut’s health center leaders!