In the Headlines

May 5, 2021 - "The Ripple" is an interactive attraction that is part of the downtown play walk made possible by Common Ground's Healthi Kids initiative.

May 3, 2021 - Phyllis Jackson, Community Wellness Project Manager of Common Ground Health says, "We need to teach people to be managers of their own health."

April 26, 2021 - Common Ground Health to convene a long-term care task force to address the nursing home staffing crisis.

April 26, 2021 - “Our job is to make sure that we continue to do the hard work of reaching our neighbors, finding out what our their concerns, fears, what are their information needs, and then making sure we respond,” Wade Norwood, CEO of Common Ground Health said.

April 26, 2021 - Wade Norwood, CEO of Common Ground Health believes more information is needed to understand why people are not getting their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

April 26, 2021 - “The important thing is to get that second shot in the window of the first shot, so that the regiment has the efficacy and the safety that we know of the clinical trials,” said Wade Norwood, CEO of Common Ground Health.

April 26, 2021 - Monroe County has enlisted Common Ground Health to create a long-term care task force to examine major issues that facilities are facing, including recruitment, training and staff diversity.

April 26, 2021 - “While our community’s older-adult population continues to grow significantly, the long-term care system has not kept pace,” Common Ground CEO Wade Norwood said.

April 26, 2021 - Monroe County Executive Adam Bello along with Common Ground Health, and other partners announced new efforts to improve staffing retention at Monroe Community Hospital.

April 26, 2021 - Wade Norwood, CEO of Common Ground Health said, “While our community’s older-adult population continues to grow significantly, the long-term care system has not kept pace."

April 22, 2021 - “There’s been so much talk in the local media about vaccine equity, but Indigenous people have been largely left out of those conversations,” says Hannah Shippee, Program Coordinator at Common Ground Health.

April 22, 2021 - “At the heart of vaccine hesitancy and at the heart of vaccine system navigation is information,” said Wade Norwood, CEO of Common Ground Health.