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2009 Priority Areas

Legislative

  • Instituting a statewide system of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners

  • Promoting comprehensive sexuality education through incentive grants

  • Breast and cervical cancer screening and detection

  • The Connecticut Home Care Program for the Disabled

  • Women's behavioral health services

  • The elimination of health disparities including those in gender, race and ethnicity

Administrative

  • Family planning waiver

  • Smoking cessation

 Watch List

  • HealthFirst Authority*

  • Primary Care Authority*

  • Charter Oak Health Plan

*The PCSW was asked to be an ex-officio member of the HealthFirst and Primary Care Authority Committees.

Download CWHC's 2009 Priority Areas


Read Building Blocks for Universal Healthcare.

Read PCSW health-related testimony for the 2008 session.
 

 

 

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