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Surrounding the Patient … In a Good Way: Osagie Ebekozien and the Whittier Street Health Center
Whittier Street Health Center, a community health center in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, MA, runs a grant-funded, community-based model of diabetes care that brings best practices to the community by letting community members tell their own stories. Osagie Ebekonien, manager of quality assurance and performance improvement at Whittier Street recently spent some time with […]
MoreA Memo From Frederica Williams, President and CEO
Labor Day is behind us and a new academic year has started for students in our communities. Here at Whittier Street Health Center, we celebrated the start of the school year with a Back-to-School BBQ, partly funded by Cradles to Crayons and GE. Almost 800 people came to enjoy the food on the grill, popcorn, […]
MoreTake Kids to Get Their Flu Shots Early, Experts Say
MONDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) — As soon as the updated seasonal flu vaccine becomes available, parents should bring children aged 6 months and older to get vaccinated, according to an updated policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The AAP now recommends that kids be protected against the flu with either the […]
MoreWEEI 93.7 FM, Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon: Mary London with Nurse Ludmila Svoboda
Mary is being treated at Dana-Farber’s Whittier Street Health Center Clinic for kidney cancer. Her cancer was caught early enough to be treated before spreading. Program nurse for the Cancer Care Equity Program at DFCI at Whittier Street Ludmila Svoboda joins to discuss her job and the program. http://audio.weei.com/a/80148473/m-m-mary-london-with-nurse-ludmila-svoboda.htm
MoreMissionSAFE Teens Present on an Empowering Summer
Presentations Highlight Productive and Engaging Summer MissionSAFE’s end of summer YLSC Summer of Leadership and Service intern presentations on August 15 were a smashing success! It was a fantastic opportunity to see high school aged young people discussing their summer jobs: the challenges, rewards, things they learned, people they met and the difference it made […]
MoreWhittier Street Health Center is Awarded a $9.5 Million Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration
PRWEB.COM Newswire Boston, MA August 21, 2013 Whittier Street Health Center (Whittier) in Boston has been awarded a $9.5 million grant, $1.9 million distributed annually over the next five years, by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to provide health care services to patients formerly served by the Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center (RoxComp). […]
MoreRoxbury’s Whittier Street Health Center gets $9.5M federal grant
Whittier Street Health Center has been awarded $9.5 million in grants from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration. The funding will help the Roxbury health center to provide health care to patients in the Roxbury and North Dorchester neighborhoods who had been served by the Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center — known as RoxComp […]
MoreWhittier Street Health Center receives $1.9 million federal grant to support patients from closed Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently awarded the Whittier Street Health Center a $1.9 million grant to provide health-care services to patients formerly served by the Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center (RoxComp). RoxComp, which closed in February 2013, served 8,180 patients from Roxbury, North Dorchester and other parts of Boston. To date, Whittier […]
MoreDiane Patrick honored by Whittier Street Health Center
First Lady Diane Patrick was honored at the Women for Whittier holiday tea, held this week at the Four Seasons. Patrick received the health center’s first Champion of Women’s Health Award, and guests included former “Chronicle” host Mary Richardson, former WBZ-TV reporter Sarah Ann Shaw, Mintz Levin’s Deborah Daccord, Children’s Services of Roxbury CEO Pamela Ogletree, Doris Yaffe, Hollister Staffing CEO Kip Hollister, and the Children Museum’s Charlayne Murrell-Smith.
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