In the Headlines

May 6, 2020 - Common Ground's Healthi Kids initiative receives congratulations for creating an innovative way to promote the power of play.

May 4, 2020 - Common Ground's Healthi Kids Initiative to promote the power of play with its distribution of 900 free play kits that can be used at home.

May 4, 2020 - Play kits were offered for distribution at city R-Centers by Common Ground's Healthi Kids Initiative.

April 28, 2020 - Common Ground's African American Coalition and Latino Health Coalition weigh in on COVID-19 and the knowledge you need to protect yourself and your family.

April 24, 2020 - Dr. Linda Clark, Senior Health Advisor at Common Ground discusses COVID-19's devastating impact, health disparities and what’s being done to address them.

April 21, 2020 - Common Ground Health and the Healthi Kids staff have been the driving force behind playful installations at the Central and branch libraries and more libraries are now participating in mobile meal programs thanks to its nutrition work.

April 17, 2020 - Dr. Thomas Mahoney, CMO at Common Ground and one of the leaders of the newly built county task force for nursing homes says "the fact that a nursing home has had COVID patients or that a person has died in their nursing home doesn't mean that it's a nursing home that's providing poor care."

April 16, 2020 - "Knowing how to best protect staff has changed significantly as national and local data becomes available," said Dr. Thomas Mahoney, CMO at Common Ground.

April 16, 2020 - Dr. Thomas Mahoney, CMO at Common Ground joined County Officials in a discussion to help local nursing homes through the coronavirus pandemic.

April 16, 2020 - Dr. Thomas Mahoney, chief medical officer of Common Ground who is leading the task force, said that nursing homes where possible are moving residents who have the virus to separate wings.

April 10, 2020 - April 10, 2020- Lucia Colindres, Co-Chair of the Latino Health Coalition an initiative of Common Ground talks about how the Hispanic community is dealing with COVID-19.

April 9, 2020 - April 9, 2020- Dr. Linda Clark of Common Ground's African American Coalition says "COVID-19 is exacerbated by the fact there are already existing health inequities".