LIVING AND WORKING AT CHA

Life in Cambridge, MA

Cambridge, MA is a thriving metropolitan city home to a culturally diverse population of over 95,000. Over fifty languages may be heard on the streets of the city, including Spanish, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Chinese, Amharic, and Korean. Children from 82 different countries of origin attend the public schools. College students from around the world study at Harvard, Radcliffe, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lesley College. With nearly 100,000 people located in a 6.5 square mile area, Cambridge is a unique community with a strong mix of cultural and social diversity, intellectual vitality, and technological innovation.

More about CHA

Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is an academic public health system that is helping people live better lives. Based in Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston's metro-north region, we provide patient care, education, and outreach in hospitals, health centers, schools, community centers, and through some very special programs, right in people's homes.

As one of the ten largest health systems in Massachusetts, and as a public hospital system, we care for all those in need - from university professors to the underserved. We do this with medical services, public health programs, and through the Network Health plan. With this coordinated system, we are able to meet the needs of the public, and the health needs of each patient.

Over the past 5 years CHA programs and staff have earned national awards for culturally competency and clinical care. This recognition affirms our commitment to our highly diverse patients (see charts below) and helps us continue our drive to be the premier academic public health system in the nation.