CCA Health Centers

Bowdoin Street Health Center – Dorchester
Dimock Community Health Center – Roxbury
Fenway Community Health – Boston/Fenway
Joseph M. Smith Community Health Center – Allston and Waltham
Outer Cape Health Services – Orleans, Provincetown, Wellfleet
Sidney Borum Jr. Health Center - Boston/Theatre District & Boston Common
South Cove Community Health Center - Boston/Chinatown and Quincy

Bowdoin Street Health Center – Dorchester
Bowdoin Street Health Center (BSHC) has been an integral part of the Dorchester community since 1973. BSHC provides high quality, compassionate, and culturally competent primary and specialty care services. BSHC is distinguished for its commitment to working in partnership with community residents and businesses to successfully address many community identified health needs of our neighborhood. The health center is an economic anchor for the community, serving as the largest employer. Bowdoin Street is licensed by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Dimock Community Health Center – Roxbury
Dimock Community Health Center (DCHC) is the successor of the New England Hospital for Women and Children founded in 1862 by women physicians. DCHC is located on a beautiful nine-acre campus, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Sites. DCHC provides integrated and comprehensive health and human services through its three main program areas:

Health and Community Care: Primary care and related services aimed at providing health maintenance, screenings, disease prevention and management including, adult, pediatric and OB/GYN services; eye-care and dentistry; HIV counseling, testing, outreach, case management and education; women’s health services; free mammograms and menopauses programs, specialty care in HIV medicine; infectious disease prevention and treatment; diabetes diagnosis and control programs; podiatry; orthopedics; tobacco treatment services; and childhood asthma prevention and treatment programs.

Child and Family Development Services: Programs to promote the healthy development of children and families including: Pre-school, Early Headstart and Headstart development services; early intervention; Teen Center, adolescent peer leadership and after-school programs; and the Mary Eliza Mahoney Transitional Housing program.

Behavioral Health Services: Substance abuse, mental health and development disability programs including: Intensive outreach for the severely and persistently mentally ill; individual and group counseling; psychiatry; child, family and school-based treatment; residential recovery programs; and services for dually diagnosed women with HIV.

Fenway Community Health – Boston/Fenway
Fenway Community Health is renowned nationally for its expertise in providing care to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities as well as its sophisticated research programs. Fenway conducts scientific studies in a variety of areas, and is recognized around the world for cutting edge work on HIV prevention and transmission, including participation in a number of national HIV vaccine trials. A member of Boston’s Center for AIDS Research, Fenway Community Health also serves those who live and work in Boston’s diverse Fenway neighborhood, including many students, elders and people of color

Joseph M. Smith Community Health Center – Allston/Brighton and Waltham
The Joseph M. Smith Community Health Center has been providing quality primary health care services in the Allston and Brighton communities for over 30 years. In September, 2004 the Health Center opened a second site located in downtown Waltham. Joseph M. Smith CHC is the only federally-qualified community health center in these communities.

The Health Center’s mission is to provide comprehensive, culturally competent and affordable primary health care services and selected specialties to all families and individuals in Allston/Brighton, Waltham and surrounding communities. No matter what happens in our patients’ lives, Health Center staff will be there to assist them. Whether they are children or adults, insured or uninsured, employed or unemployed, long-term residents or recently arrived immigrants, the Health Center will be there to provide the highest quality healthcare. We see ourselves as the health care provider of choice for anyone who values diversity in its many dimensions and inclusion of all groups with the community.

Outer Cape Health Services – Orleans, Provincetown, Wellfleet
For nearly 40 years, Outer Cape Health Services, Inc. has been watching over area residents and visitors with a comprehensive program of primary, preventative, urgent and emergent health care services. It provides high quality, cost-effective, culturally appropriate, accessible and affordable health care for those who live in and visit the communities of lower and outer Cape Cod including Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, Eastham, Orleans, Chatham, Brewster and Harwich. Its three community health centers in Provincetown, Wellfleet and Orleans are operated by a team of 12 dedicated medical providers and allied health professionals who share a common mission of community health care and well being.

Services include: comprehensive primary care; preventive, urgent and emergent care; well baby care; women’s health; senior care; a confidential teen clinic; HIV/AIDS testing, counseling, patient care management and social services; radiology, laboratory, one of the state’s most successful Women, Infant, Children programs with 5 WIC sites from Harwich to Provincetown; and, the Healthy Connections program, which advocates for patients by removing barriers to care and increasing access to primary care at the community health level. In 2004, Outer Cape Health Services received its second three-year accreditation from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Sidney Borum Jr. Health Center - Boston/Theatre District & Boston Common
The Sidney Borum, Jr. Health Center offers a unique set of services to adolescents and young people, including many gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender young adults, street workers and runaway youth, and those without health insurance. Its service delivery model is tailored to the needs of its patients and community including street outreach and a new mobile van service.



South Cove Community Health Center -
Boston/Chinatown and Quincy
South Cove Community Health Center has been offering comprehensive bilingual/bicultural primary and specialty care services to the Asian community for over 30 years. It has become a trusted resource for high-quality medical care for long established and newly arrived immigrants. Most recently, South Cove’s leadership in Asian health matters was recognized by the Center for Disease Control, which called upon the health center to spearhead a citywide effort in educating residents about SARS.

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