How Partners HealthCare Lives United
As a system, Partners HealthCare is committed to working with community residents and organizations to make measurable, sustainable improvements in the health status of underserved populations. Specifically, the system seeks to:
- Provide access to quality care regardless of ability to pay;
- Collaborate with underserved communities to make measurable improvements in health status;
- Support community health centers; and
- Create economic opportunity. [read more]
Partners has provided capital and operational support to a network of community health centers that deal with a variety of health and social issues and has established the Partners Workforce Development Program to help members of the community access employment opportunities within the system and to help lower-paid Partners' employees advance their careers.
Partners' member organizations work to minimize health care disparities, improve maternal and child health, and help youth to succeed in school and prepare for health-related careers.
Partners has collaborated directly with United Way in several projects, including Thrive in Five, Skillworks and the Math, Science and Technology initiative. Partners, its affiliated institutions and their employees are also generous financial supporters of United Way's work, raising over $900,000 in the 2008-09 campaign.
Partners' affiliates and Live United organizations:
Massachusetts General Hospital
