Partners HealthCare®

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Community Health Centers

Partners operates, or is affiliated with, a total of 21 community health centers (CHCs), and nearly 200,000 CHC patients have access to Partners hospitals each year.

Community health centers operated by Partners hospitals, or affiliated with Partners hospitals are:

• BWH Brookside Community Health Center
• BWH Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center
• MGH Charlestown HealthCare Center
• MGH Chelsea HealthCare Center
• MGH Revere HealthCare Center
• Boston Health Care for the Homeless
• Codman Square Health Center
• Dorchester House Multi-Service Center
• East Boston Neighborhood Health Center
• Geiger-Gibson Community Health Center
• Lynn Community Health Center
• Martha Eliot Health Center (Jamaica Plain)
• Mattapan Community Health Center
• Neponset Health Center (Dorchester)
• North End Waterfront Health
• Salem Family Health Center
• Peabody Family Health Center
• South Boston Community Health Center
• South End Community Health Center
• Upham’s Corner Health Center
• Whittier Street Health Center

Our Financial Commitment to Community Health Centers

Over a 10-year period beginning in 1998, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, North Shore Medical Center, and Partners HealthCare committed more than $60M to expand health center capacity, improve quality, and enhance services:

• Financial and clinical commitments to 13 health centers
• Fifty-eight percent of the commitments supported new buildings or renovations of Brookside, Codman Sq., Dorchester House, East Boston, Neponset, Lynn, Southern Jamaica Plain, Upham's Corner, and Whittier Street
• Forty-two percent of the commitments supported other capital or operating expenses including:
  
  • EMR (electronic medical records) for East Boston
  • IT and Public Health programs at Upham’s Corner
  • Substance Abuse prevention in South Boston

As a result of these long term commitments, access to OB, Primary Care, and Urgent Care was significantly enhanced.

Annually, Partners provides nearly $50 million in operating subsidies to strengthen community health centers, especially in Charlestown, Chelsea, Jamaica Plain, and Revere.   Partners works closely with the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers in providing this support.