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CMC: 30 Years of Compassionate Care – Read our 2nd Story from our Co-Founder and Medical Director
While we celebrated a very different Thanksgiving this year, we are thankful for our support networks, our families and friends, our pets, our community, and our CMC family. And most of all we are thankful for our clients, who put their trust in us to
Charlotte Maxwell Clinic: 30 Years of Compassionate Care
November 20, 2020 Charlotte Maxwell Clinic: 30 Years of Compassionate Care At this time of year, we give thanks to our inspiration and namesake Charlotte Maxwell, our founders, who had the vision to provide compassionate integrative care to low-income women with cancer, and to all
A Note from the President: Breast Cancer Awareness Month October 2020
I had annual mammograms for 11 years, no issue; no family history. August 2017: IMPRESSION Complicated cyst versus solid nodule in the upper left breast is suspicious. Ultrasound-guided aspiration and/or core biopsy is recommended. The referring physician was notified of these results by fax. The
CMC honors Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Her stewardship of and championship for women, minorities, and the LGBTQ community have made an indelible mark on our country and our history. Her death on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Jewish new year, gives her the title of “tzadik,” meaning righteous and saintly. She
Proclamation 4236 – Women’s Equality Day
With the issuance of Proclamation 4236, President Nixon created Women’s Equality Day, first observed in 1973 in honor of the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote.* An important milestone to be sure, but it was in 1968 that Shirley Chisolm, educational
It’s Be Kind to Humankind Week!
Be Kind To Humankind Week is celebrated from August 25-31 every year and is a celebration of people and the kind acts they perform all across the globe https://bk2hk.org/. The Charlotte Maxwell Clinic celebrates humankindness every day by providing compassionate integrative care to low‑income women
Community Health Centers: Lighting the Way for Healthier Communities Today and in the Future
August 14, 2020 is Health Center Staff Appreciation Day! Because of the diligent work of our fabulous staff and volunteers, CMC has been providing high quality, compassionate integrative care, free of charge, to low-income women with cancer for almost 30 years. On this day, we recognize all the staff and volunteers throughout our
A Note from the President
Charlotte Maxwell Clinic Board President Lynne Srinivasan shares with us her thoughts on the clinic, current times, and beyond. CMC has been offering integrative health services, free of charge, to low-income women with cancer for nearly 30 years. Our volunteer practitioners provide massage, acupuncture, energy
Welcoming new leadership
As we head toward our 30th anniversary, please join us in welcoming Melbra Watts, MBA, CHt as the new Executive Director of the Charlotte Maxwell Clinic. Melbra has been affiliated with CMC for the past seven years as a volunteer practitioner in the fields of
Courage to take action for change
We at the Charlotte Maxwell Clinic recognize and acknowledge the traumas that have gripped and mobilized our collective conscience, and the deep mourning entwined with rage and fear many of us may be experiencing. This is a tumultuous time highlighting the egregious, systemic, and longstanding
Together
With your help, we were able to raise more than $35,000 during our spring fundraising campaign, with checks and pledges still arriving. Your participation also enabled us to exceed our #GivingTuesdayNow goal to qualify for an anonymous donor match of $10,000 as part of that total.
A bright light of connection and care
Not only is today #GivingTuesdayNow, May is Mental Health Awareness Month (#NotAlone). Please help CMC continue to be a bright light of connection and care : https://tinyurl.com/CMC-together While shelter-in-place and social distancing practices help protect physical health, isolation is a risk factor for increased anxiety and depression.
StoryCorps Series
During the summer of 2020, CMC had the unique opportunity to partner with StoryCorps, whose mission is “to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.” Via their platform, we were able to record six different stories from our community. What a wonderful honor to have our voices heard, recorded, and housed at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress!
EPISODE 6: Clients in Conversation
"Charlotte Maxwell is just like the respite from the harm."
-Toni
EPISODE 5: A client-volunteer conversation
“You gave me that opportunity. You know, to balance myself.”
-Claudia Castillo
EPISODE 4: CMC staff share their perspectives
“This is a type of medicine that a lot of people can’t access because it’s not affordable and we haven’t figured out, as a society, how to make this broadly accessible. But Charlotte Maxwell has figured that out.”
-India Harville
EPISODE 3: A client-staff conversation
“The volunteers…are wonderful. I appreciate the time that they give us. They treat us with respect…with such gentleness, with such compassion; I just look forward to it.”
-Charlene Davis
EPISODE 2: A client-staff conversation
“When you walk in the door… whatever’s going on in your life, good or bad, it’s just like the weight has been lifted off of you because you know that you’re in good hands.”
-Kathy Mills
EPISODE 1: Founders in conversation
“I mean, not tooting our own horn, but we were so ahead of our time.”
-Sally Savitz