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October 11, 2023
One woman’s journey to better mental health
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, more than 1 in 5 U.S. adults live with a mental illness—with women suffering at a rate far higher than men. Mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, and eating disorders are more prevalent for women, but help is available. Heather had battled mental illness. Courageously, she…
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September 20, 2023
Connecting members to life-changing mental health and substance use treatment
A few years ago, CDPHP member David was at a low point. “I was in rough shape. I was homeless and had little regard for my health. I lost relationships with my family, my friends.” Finding himself relying on substances and increasingly hopeless, David knew he could no longer do it alone. Following a hospitalization…
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September 08, 2023
From Asylum Seeker to Small Business Owner: How a helping hand turned tragedy into triumph for a Delmar woman
Diane Mbombo-Tite is a successful small business owner living in Delmar, NY. Fluent in five languages, she founded Akula Interpreting and Translation during the height of the COVID-19 crisis. Today, she works with local schools, hospitals, health care organizations, and government agencies to provide critical language services* to individuals and families in need. The road…
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June 21, 2023
How a Letter from a “Stranger” Helped a Cohoes Woman
In March 2019, Debbie O’Keefe of Cohoes found herself in the middle of an unexpected health crisis: Stage 1 breast cancer. Twenty years earlier, Debbie’s mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. However, because Debbie did not carry the BRCA gene, a mutation that puts patients at higher risk of developing breast cancer, she was surprised…
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May 04, 2022
Help for a local mom when she needed it most
When Jillian Morsellino’s 3-year-old daughter got sick, the Albany mother thought it was just a cold. Little Nala had tested positive for COVID-19 five weeks prior, but at the time, experienced no symptoms. Several weeks later, the little girl stopped eating and drinking, was extremely fatigued, and developed a fever of 104 degrees. That’s…
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March 03, 2022
Here’s how the CDPHP, Community Care Physicians partnership will benefit you, the patient
Two of the Capital Region’s leading health care organizations have officially teamed up to improve the quality and experience of care for patients throughout the Capital Region and beyond. Under the partnership, CDPHP and Community Care Physicians, PLLC (CCP) will be creating what’s known as an integrated delivery system, where the health plan and physician…
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