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North Shore Medical Center and Lynn Community Health Center are part of the Women's Health Network, which provides free breast and cervical cancer screening services to uninsured women.

About Community Benefit Programs

Improving Care for Uninsured and Medicaid Patients through Health Care Reform

Addressing Health Care Disparities

Partnering with Community Health Centers - Cost Effective Care in the Appropriate Setting

Addressing Infant Mortality and Improving the Health of Low Income Women

Caring for Women and Children Affected by Domestic Violence

Preventing and Responding to Substance Abuse Among Young People in Charlestown and Revere

Creating Economic Opportunity

Community Partners

In 1994, a total of five community health centers (CHCs) were licensed by Partners hospitals. Today, a total of 21 CHCs are licensed or affiliated with Partners HealthCare, and some 200,000 CHC patients have access to Partners hospitals each year.

Partners HealthCare has invested more than $175 million in CHCs’ infrastructure, programming and operations, and has helped a dozen health centers to relocate, re-build, or modernize.

Community health centers licensed and operated by Partners hospitals are:

Community health centers affiliated with Partners are:

Codman Square Health Center
Dorchester House Multi-Service Center
East Boston Neighborhood Health Center
Geiger Gibson Community Health Center
Harbor Family Health Center (formerly Mary Ellen McCormack Health Center)
Lynn Community Health Center
Martha Eliot Health Center
Mattapan Community Health Center
Neponset Health Center
Salem and Peabody Family Health Centers
South Boston Community Health Center
South End Community Health Center
Upham’s Corner Health Center
Whittier Street Health Center

Many of these CHCs are also affiliated with other hospitals.

The goal of Partners work with community health centers is to develop and maintain community-based partnerships to positively impact access to care, public health, and clinical prevention needs in urban neighborhoods.

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