The Healthy Child

10/18/2021

“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.”
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Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE.
Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.
Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.
Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”
Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne—after telling her not to publish).
Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.
Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.
Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

09/23/2020

Dear Families and Patients,

We are pleased to announce that The Healthy Child is joining Stamford Health Medical Group (SHMG). SHMG is a multi-specialty group of nearly 200 physicians that provides healthcare services to residents of lower Fairfield County and nearby Westchester County. SHMG is part of the comprehensive network of medical, surgical and emergency care services and technology at Stamford Health, which also includes Stamford Hospital.

Dr. Windels and Karpiak will remain in place full time to care for your children. Dr. Vogel who has recently joined us part time will be full time starting October 1st, 2020. In addition, Ann Mauk, a Physicians Assistant with decades of pediatric experience will be joining us part time in November to extend our hours.

Please be assured that we will retain the small, intimate style that gives personal attention to every child. We will continue to treat your family with warmth and compassion. Our office address, phone number and staff will remain the same.

This new association will provide our patients with expanded resources including laboratory and radiology locations throughout lower Fairfield County as well as the Pediatric Emergency Department at Stamford Hospital.

We will continue to accept all major insurance plans and we are currently accepting new patients. For your convenience we will continue to accommodate same-day appointments. Your records will be transferred and now part of SHMG. If for some reason you are concerned with this transition, please call us so we can guide you and answer any questions. However, if you would like to request your records, please contact our office and we will assist you.

Thank you for the privilege of caring for your family. Please do not hesitate to contact us at 203.655.6000 with any questions or concerns. We look forward to seeing you.

Warmest regards,

Cecile Windels, M.D.
Janet Karpiak, M.D.
Christen Vogel, M.D.

09/09/2020

Good information to have, let’s continue to reinforce hand washing, masks, and social distancing in children as we persist through this very trying time of Covid-19. As always, stay safe and be well;

From the staff at The Healthy Child

The new cases bring the cumulative number of infected children to over 476,000, and that figure represents 9.5% of the over 5 million COVID-19 cases reported among all ages.

06/30/2020

Dr. Christen Vogel
Born and raised in Fairfield County, Dr. Christen Vogel is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She completed her Pediatrics residency program at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford before returning to Fairfield County to practice medicine. After working in Urgent Care for the last five years, she is looking forward to creating long-term relationships in primary care at The Healthy Child. She is board certified in Pediatrics, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and has special interests in teaching and education. Dr. Vogel enjoys teaching both at work and in the community and takes great pride in keeping up with the most up to date guidelines such as with COVID. Dr. Vogel is thrilled to be joining the team at The Healthy Child. She will be joining the team on July 8th 2020!

06/26/2020

Governor Lamont, Governor Cuomo, and Governor Murphy Announce Joint Incoming Travel Advisory That All Individuals Traveling From States With Significant Community Spread of COVID-19 Self-Quarantine for 14 DaysTri-State Advisory Will Use Uniform Parameters and Messaging Across the Three States

(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont of Connecticut, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo ofNew York, and Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey today announced a joint incoming traveladvisory that all individuals traveling from states with significant community spread of COVID-19 self-quarantine for a 14-day period from the time of last contact within the identified state.

This self-quarantine – effective 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 – applies to any personarriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents or a state witha 10 percent or higher positivity rate over a 7-day rolling average.

Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey will continually update and publish on their respectivewebsites a list of states to which the new advisory applies. This information will be updatedregularly.

The tri-state measure will use uniform parameters and messaging on highways, airports, websitesand social media across the three states. The three states will also ask hotels to communicate the14-day quarantine to guests who have traveled from one of the impacted states.

“Working together as a region has proven to be immensely successful as our respective states areleading the country when it comes to our response with low infection and positivity rates relativeto increased testing capacity,” Governor Lamont said. “We have made difficult decisionsthroughout this pandemic, but we have proven to make many of the right decisions. This step toinform travelers form states with hot spots to self-isolate is meant to protect our residents andmaintain our incredible public health progress.”

“In New York we went from the highest number of cases to some of the lowest rates in thecountry – no one else had to bend the curve as much as we did and now we have to make surethat the rate continues to drop in our entire region,” Governor Cuomo said. “We’ve beenworking with our neighbors in New Jersey and Connecticut throughout this entire pandemic, andwe're announcing a joint travel advisory that says people coming in from states with a highinfection rate must quarantine for 14 days. We’ve worked very hard to get the viral transmissionrate down and we don’t want to see it go up again because people are traveling into the state andbringing it with them.”

“Over the course of the past few months, our states have taken aggressive action to flatten thecurve and beat back the coronavirus,” Governor Murphy said. “As a result of our collectiveefforts, we have low infection rates, falling hospitalizations, and have steadily been reopeningour economies. Unfortunately many states continue to have high transmission rates. We are proud to work with our partners in New York and Connecticut on a joint incoming travel advisory to ensure continued progress against this virus and to keep residents of the tri-state area safe.”

The states include: ALABAMA,ARKANSAS, ARIZONA, FLORIDA, NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA, TEXAS AND UTAH.

06/16/2020

To All Healthy Child Family's
Please note that for the summer our Saturday hours are as follows. As always one of our doctors is on call 24 hours a day;
From 9 to 12 on Saturdays you will reach a doctor directly and a telehealth call can be arranged. Please leave a message on the voice mail so that the physician may return your call. There is no after hours charge for the calls between 9 and 12.
A telehealth visit can be arranged or an actual visit if needed. We don't have a secretary or nurse in the office but the doctor can meet you here.
We will resume Saturday hours on August 29 by appointment only, no walk ins.
Thank you and please stay well and be careful this summer.

06/06/2020

A great educational guide made especially for children.

COVID-19! How Can I Protect Myself and Others? will help you, and your community, understand the science of the virus that causes COVID-19 and other viruses like it. It will help you to figure out how this virus is impacting or affecting you or may impact you in the future. It will help you to under...

05/29/2020

A guide to staying safe this summer

05/28/2020

Tonight! Free webinar from Yale

04/29/2020

Don’t forget to schedule your child’s well checks and vaccinations!

Telemedicine has its limits. And postponing shots could lead to a resurgence of diseases like measles. Doctors are taking steps to make their offices safe for kids who need to come in.

04/15/2020

More than 117 million children could miss out on immunization against measles as the COVID-19 pandemic forces social distancing and piles pressure on health services, United Nations health agencies warned on Tuesday.