Tufts Medicine is deeply invested in the communities we serve. Our wide-range of community benefit initiatives, programs, and partnerships prioritize four critical elements of health equity.
Tufts Medicine in The Community
Access to Quality Care
We’re working to create the most equitable and frictionless healthcare experience in the world. This means ensuring all people can get timely, affordable, high-quality, equitable health services from culturally competent providers.
Access to Quality Care
Multi-Service Counselor Program: Tufts Medical Center partners with the Asian American Civic Association to offer a range of social services to Asian immigrants in Boston’s Chinatown community, including assistance with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, employment services, housing, and immigration and citizenship information.
Community program spotlight:
Health and Wellbeing
Social Determinants of Health
Addressing Bias in Medicine
Our mission is to empower people to live their best lives. Our community programs play a critical role in supporting health behaviors that contribute to physical, mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of disease, or infirmity.
Health and Wellbeing
Mystic Valley Regional Behavioral Health Coalition: We collaborate with the
National Alliance on Mental Health, Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office,
and the Mystic Valley Public Health Coalition to increase access to behavioral healthcare, create and promote strategies to support vulnerable populations,
offer provider education and break down barriers between provider communities.
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We’re committed to advancing health equity through advocacy and investment in efforts that ensure equitable access to the factors that influence health and quality-of-life outcomes. These factors include food access, stable housing, transportation, education, employment, and violence prevention.
Social Determinants of Health
MelroseWakefield Hospital’s Mobile Food Market: We partner with the Greater Boston Food Bank to improve access to healthy food and reduce food insecurity—delivering produce and shelf stable items to over 500 families and individuals each month across Malden, Medford and Melrose.
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It’s our goal to represent the communities we serve and build workforce capacity to eliminate biases historically entrenched in medical research, education,
and practice.
Addressing Bias in Medicine
DEI Youth Mentorship Programs: Our physicians and staff do outreach with Lowell-area youth programs, including the Boys & Girls Club and Teen Block, to promote interest in healthcare careers and create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive healthcare workforce.
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