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Since its creation in 1996, CHA has worked to achieve
its mission of improving the health of its communities. In
doing so, we have placed special emphasis on diverse populations
who traditionally experience numerous barriers to health care.
Today, we are proud to have designed innovative ways to help
our most vulnerable patients. We have also leveraged our public
health and outreach functions to target some of the most complex
and challenging community health issues - like childhood obesity,
asthma, and mental health.
Our Achievements
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A robust interpreter services program, employing
more than 40 bilingual primary care providers, linguistic
mental health programs for non-English speakers, and providing
access to health coverage.
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The Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research,
that generates innovative mental health services research
that impacts policy, practice, and service delivery for
multicultural populations. It is comprised of an interdisciplinary
group of psychologists, social policy analysts, health
economists, psychiatrists, data analysts, sociologists,
and other professionals that assist in the research and
analysis of Center projects.
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Our culturally-competent clinical programs, including
our Haitian Mental Health Team which received the 2010
Schwartz Center Compassionate Caregiver of the Year award.
This award recognizes a caregiver or caregiving team in
Massachusetts that best personifies Schwartz Center mission
to "advance compassionate health care in which caregivers,
patients and their families relate to one another in a
way that provides hope to the patient, support to caregivers,
and sustenance to the healing process."
As we transform our health system into a high performing
and high value Accountable Care Organization which provides
care for large, underserved populations, we must continue
to understand our patients' neighborhoods, environment, and
social networks. This will allow us to create new ways to
manage their care, motivate healthy behaviors and enrich their
lives.
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CHA is recognized by the AHA Institute for Diversity
for providing high quality, culturally-competent care.
For Delivering Culturally and Linguistically Competent
Patient Care throughout the Organization, CHA is
one of 4 hospitals named "Best in Class."
For Effectively Engaging Diverse Communities that
the Organization Serves, CHA is in the top 12, and
noted for "Promising Practices."
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