How Tufts Medical Center Lives United
Tufts Medical Center's Community Health Mission is to support and sustain the health and well-being of residents in communities that have historic or developing relationships with our hospital. Their mission also calls for providing leadership for academic medical centers in the creation of a model that implements a long-term community health agenda.
Tuft's longstanding presence in Boston's Chinatown has resulted in the development of many community health initiatives that serve the Asian community. As an example, their Asian Access Program serves community members from infants to the elderly through the Adolescent Family Program, the Asian American Center for Cancer Education and Research and the Asian Psychiatry Clinic. These and other programs offer linguistically and culturally appropriate health services to members of our surrounding Asian communities.
A sampling of the Medical Center's additional outreach programs include:
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The Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute Outreach Program, which helps educate parents and children about avoiding traumatic injury
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Minority Student Outreach, which encourages high school students and elementary school children to foster their interest in science
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The Quincy School Child Psychiatry Consultation Program, through which our staff members work with school officials to identify and treat children with mental health problems in Quincy.
We also help support many organizations that promote health in our neighborhoods,
including the Asian American Civic Association/Sampan, South Cove Community Health Center, Wang YMCA, Bird Street Community Center, Neponset Health Center, Codman Square Health Center, Dorchester Multi-Service Center and others. More than 42,500 community members were served by these organizations in fiscal 2008.
Tufts Medical Center's commitment to the community is also evident in the generosity of its people. Over the last five years, Tuft's physicians and staff contributed over $130,000 to support the work if United Way.
