Advancing Teams in Community Health
Advancing Teams in Community Health Charles River Community Health received a grant to use patient navigators/community health workers to improve care for patients with complex care needs. Funding was made available to advance care coordination, enhance patient outcomes, and increase provider, staff, and trainee satisfaction. Projects are to help catalyze the transformation to high functioning, […]
Food as Medicine – Charles River featured in WBUR Article
CRCH has been featured in a new article on WBUR, one of Boston’s local radio station. The article, “Food As Medicine: Rethinking Hunger Relief As Health Care”, explores the critical relationship between what we eat and how that contributes to our overall state of health. Check out the article here!
Free Legal Clinic for CRCH Patients
To assist our patients navigate through changes in immigration policies, CRCH is offering a free onsite immigration legal clinic to our patients. Please call 617-208-1562 to make an appointment.
Get Free Fruits & Vegetables and Get Healthy!
CRCH is once again partnering with Greater Boston Food Bank in 2017 to offer our monthly Mobile Market at our Brighton location. Patients of the health center can register and get free fruits and vegetables. And we are also looking for volunteers to help with the Market! Please contact us if you want to register […]
Get Active!
CRCH will be organizing exercise classes for our adult and senior patients at the Charlesview Community Center. So what are you waiting for? Sign up and Get Active! If you are a CRCH patient and you are interested, please sign up with us by calling 617-208-1562
Patient Satisfaction Survey
CRCH has completed its patient satisfaction survey for the fourth quarter of 2016. The survey was conducted in the medical, dental, behavioral health, and vision departments, and the surveys were completed English, Spanish or Portuguese, to suit the needs of our patients. CRCH’s patient responses are on par with the relevant benchmarks, as we continue […]
1 in 10 Children across US Receive Care from a Health Center
Health centers across the nation provide care to more than 24 million people in every U.S. state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Pacific Basin. One in 13 people and 1 in 10 children are receiving care from health center in the United States. In addition to making a […]
Official Opening of our Brighton Retail Pharmacy!
We were thrilled to have State Representatives Michael Moran and Kevin Honan, as well as Boston City Councilor Mark Ciommo officiate our ribbon cutting ceremony on January 11, to celebrate the opening of our retail pharmacy in Brighton. With this opening, our pharmacy is able to serve the community-at-large, including people who are not patients […]
Bringing Screening Mammograms to the Community – CRCH’s Long-standing Partnership with Dana Farber
Dana Farber, the leading cancer prevention, treatment and research facility in the area, has been an important partner of ours since 2002. As a patient-centered medical home, CRCH is happy to be able to offer screening mammograms to our patients through Dana Farber’s van service, so that our patients can access this important service right […]
Thanks for another successful year-end fundraising campaign!
We want to extend our gratitude to all of our supporters and donors who made generous contributions to CRCH through our year-end fundraising campaign. We are happy to report that we have had an increase in the number of donations in 2016. Thanks for your support and a great start to 2017!
