News
Celebrating our 2025 Healthi Kids Coalition award winners
Healthi Kids Coalition honored three incredible coalition members who go above and beyond to make our community feel supported, healthier and more playful.
Celebrating two years of the Indigenous Health Coalition: honoring stories, strength, and a shared vision
Common Ground Health’s Indigenous Health Coalition celebrated collective work to improve the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people in the Rochester region.
Common Ground Health highlights maternal health equity at annual public health lecture
Common Ground Health joined partners and advocates at the 14th Annual Dr. Bernard Guyer Lecture to focus on transforming birth care in Rochester and the Finger Lakes.
Community health educators featured in Monroe County substance abuse support campaign
As part of the Get It Done initiative, 14 barber shop and hair salon owners are distributing Narcan and offering overdose prevention education.
Healthi Kids engages kids and families at RCSD's Booktacular Fall Festival
Healthi Kids joined the Booktacular Fall Festival to share our infant mental health resources.
Spotlight reveals urgent need for school-based mental health support in Monroe County and across the Finger Lakes region
The report emphasizes that schools are uniquely positioned to provide early intervention and prevention.
In The Headlines
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RRH names population health veteran to lead clinically integrated network
Rochester Regional HealthDecember 17, 2025 - Rochester Regional Health Appoints Melissa Gardner as President and Chief Operating Officer of Clinically Integrated Network.
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Sounding the alarm on youth self-harm
WXXIDecember 3, 2025 - Holley Sienkiewicz, research director at Common Ground Health, reports that self-harm has become the leading behavioral health-related reason youth are visiting emergency departments.
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ERs reportedly seeing more youth self-harm; local nonprofit calls for school-based prevention
WXXIDecember 2, 2025 - “In the light of this very frightening data, we need to make sure that children know that there are community resources and community neighbors and loving adults and friends who are here to help,” said Wade Norwood, Co-CEO at Common Ground Health/Rochester RHIO.
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Everyone deserves home health care; not everyone gets it
WXXI ConnectionsNovember 26, 2025 - Phyllis Jackson, R.N., community health and wellbeing project manager for Common Ground Health emphasizes that home healthcare disparities reflect broader racism in communities and the healthcare system.