Welcome to
Connecticut Primary Care Association

The Connecticut Primary Care Association (CPCA) was established in 1989 as the voice of Connecticut’s not-for-profit community health centers. Our mission is to promote and further the delivery of comprehensive, accessible, family-oriented community-based health care. Our primary focus is education of the public, health policy makers, and health care providers.

CPCA works with community health centers and their board of directors to guarantee that primary care is accessible to all who seek it, regardless of their ability to pay. Services available from Connecticut community health centers include, but are not limited to, comprehensive primary care services, dental and mental health care treatment, chronic disease management, preventative health screenings and acute care. CPCA also serves as lead agency to 15 states in the Health Disparities Collaboratives’ (HDC) Northeast Cluster. Connecticut Primary Care Association has worked with more than 104 community health centers in the northeast to implement Health Disparities Collaborative intitiatives to improve patient outcomes and the quality of care to people with chronic diseases. Click on the HDC Success Stories box on this page for a sampling of innovative practices.

In our efforts to support the essential work of the Community Health Centers, CPCA plays an active role in health policy discussion by participating on key advisory councils and providing on-going information to Connecticut's decision-makers, elected officials and residents about the high quality health services and programs available through community health centers. In addition, we bring training and resources to community health centers to increase the quality of care and expand the array of services to meet the ever expanding need of Connecticut’s neediest residents.

Attention Public Officials, Health Care Providers and
Community Leaders in the State of Connecticut

In our quest to keep Connecticut healthy, the Community Health Centers have created an "Emergencies Happen" CD to help give you the resources you need to get prepared. There is a lot of good information on this CD but it is by no means an exhaustive compilation of information. There are books and website links in each section for you to learn more.

Please take a close look at the contents of this CD. Any emergency, whether natural disaster, man made disaster, or influenza pandemic, can interrupt life as we know it. This type of interruption can lead to many problems, some of which can be serious, unless people take steps to prepare for it before it happens. Please share this information with your constituents, patients, family, friends and neighbors to help them prepare for emergencies.

There is no limit on how prepared a person can be. Helping people understand what steps are most important to take will benefit us all.

As part of our public health focus, Community Health Centers are looking out for you, so you can help us look out for everyone else. Please join us in helping everyone to be prepared and stay well.

The Connecticut Primary Care Association thanks the many organizations that have granted permission to reprint information from websites and documents that contribute to the wealth of resources presented in this compact disk.

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Downloaded CD Contents are in a compressed (zip) format (83.1 MB).
Extract the contents to your hard drive then start by double clicking the "1 ~READ ME FIRST~.html" file.