The East Boston Neighborhood Health Center has been a vital part of the community for 40 years. We provide easily accessible, high-quality health care to all who live and work in East Boston and the surrounding communities, without regard to age, income, insurance status, language, culture, or social circumstances. Our doors are always open.
What’s New:
Free Career Advancement Classes
Firework: EBNHC Rocks in Pink Glove Video
EBNHC Named to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s 2011 Physician Group Honor Roll
EBNHC Receives 2011 Innovation Award
Free Flu Vaccines Available
EBNHC Breaks Ground in Winthrop
Intergenerational Connections—One Smile at a Time
EBNHC Named to “Best of 2011 Radiology Facilities” List
EBNHC Designated Baby Safe Haven
MyChart: Staying Healthy Is Now Easier than Ever
EBNHC Construction Updates
Free Career Advancement Classes
Start the New Year off on the right foot! The Education and Training Institute of the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC) is offering free career advancement classes to the residents of East Boston, Revere, Winthrop, Chelsea, and Everett.
The East Boston Harborside Community School will provide free General Equivalency Diploma (GED) and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes during daytime hours at the Education and Training Institute at 155 Addison Street in East Boston. Classes start on January 18. Take advantage of this excellent opportunity to develop your potential! To find out about hours and to register, call 617-635-5115.
Firework: EBNHC Rocks in Pink Glove Video
EBNHC team members star in our own Pink Glove video to support the prevention and early detection of breast cancer and support breast cancer survivors. Music used by permission of Katy Perry!
EBNHC Named to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s 2011 Physician Group Honor Roll
EBNHC has been named to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s 2011 Physician Group Honor Roll in recognition of the outstanding commitment to high-quality care demonstrated by EBNHC physicians. EBNHC gratefully acknowledges the work of Peter Smith, MD, and Anita Morris, NP, for this honor. Read the press release here.
EBNHC Receives 2011 Innovation Award
EBNHC has received the 2011 Innovation Award from the Massachusetts Health Information Management Association (MaHIMA) for the design and implementation of the health information document imaging process. Employees from the IT and Medical Records departments, as well as a medical staff representative, were involved in this success. The President of MaHIMA visited the health center on November 8, 2011, to present award certificates to the members of the design and implementation team. Congratulations!
Free Flu Vaccines Available
Free flu vaccines are available at EBNHC. You do not need to be an EBNHC patient to receive a vaccine. If you would like to be vaccinated, please call Monday-Friday to make an appointment:
- Adult Medicine, 617-568-4401 (over age 15)
- Family Medicine, 617-568-4800 (adults and children)
- Pediatrics, 617-568-4477 (children under 15)
Protect yourself and your family. Get vaccinated!
EBNHC Breaks Ground in Winthrop
Over 100 people gathered in Winthrop Square on September 30, 2011, for an official groundbreaking of EBNHC’s new Winthrop Community Health Center. In attendance were representatives of the health center, local and state officials including Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo, and business leaders and neighbors from the community.
A short speaking program was kicked off by EBNHC's CMO Emeritus, Dr. James Taylor. Also speaking from EBNHC were CEO John Cradock, CMO Dr. Mari Bentley, Deputy CEO Manny Lopes, and Board of Directors Chair Rita Sorrento. All touched upon how excited they were to have a new facility in Winthrop and how the new location will help serve EBNHC’s growing patient population in Winthrop.
House Speaker DeLeo, a Winthrop native, spoke of how vital community health centers are to the commonwealth and how the new Winthrop facility will bring valuable services to his hometown, serving as an economic and social anchor to the Winthrop Square area.
Once complete, the historic renovation will provide 7,400 s/f of facility space for the new health center, including primary care services for adults and children. Much of the exterior will be preserved and renewed, while the interior will be brought up to modern building codes. In addition, the building will include 3,000 s/f of retail space, sub-divided into three stores.
Without question, this development project creates short-term and long-term growth and jobs, at a time when, and in a place where, they are very much needed. The new Winthrop Community Health Center is scheduled to open in early to mid 2012.
To view an online album of photos from this event, click here. Read a full press release about the groundbreaking here.
Intergenerational Connections—One Smile at a Time
When elders and young people make connections, everyone benefits—the elders, the kids, and the community. Michelle Bettano of Volunteer Services at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC) saw a need in the community for more intergenerational activities and got busy making it happen.
Bettano contacted Principal O'Mard of East Boston’s O'Donnell Elementary School, and Brian Johnston, a third-grade teacher at the school. She also contacted Lindsay Sulprizio, Activities Coordinator at the Elder Service Plan’s Barnes PACE Center, which is just a two-minute walk from the school. Together with Johnston's kids and Sulprizio's adults, this group formed an intergenerational program that had everyone smiling. Read more here.
EBNHC Named to “Best of 2011 Radiology Facilities” List
EBNHC was honored recently when the center was named to the “Best of 2011 Radiology Facilities” List published by Imaging Economics. The list is comprised of facilities throughout the United States that have demonstrated “an overriding commitment to excellence,” according to an editor’s note in the publication. Read the full press release here.
EBNHC Designated Baby Safe Haven
The Emergency Department of the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC) is now officially designated a Baby Safe Haven. The Safe Haven Act of Massachusetts allows a parent facing the last resort to legally surrender a newborn infant 7 days old or younger at a hospital, police station, or manned fire station without criminal prosecution.
EBNHC supports healthy families and works to keep families intact. Unfortunately, in some instances new parents are unable or unwilling to care for an infant and need an immediate solution to a crisis situation. The Safe Haven Act provides a viable alternative to the unsafe abandonment of a newborn that may lead to injury or death.
“We must provide this service to our community,” said Jack Cradock, President and CEO of EBNHC. “This is about saving lives by offering help to those who feel they have no other choice but to relinquish a newborn for its own safety.” Read more here.
MyChart: Staying Healthy Is Now Easier than Ever
The East Boston Neighborhood Health Center is pleased to announce MyChart, our new patient portal. With online access to your health care provider’s office and your medical record, good health is now more convenient than ever.
Through MyChart, you can manage routine health care matters whenever you want. Appointments, medications, immunizations, and certain lab results can be seen safely and easily online.
Now you can order medication renewals, see your future appointments, or send your provider’s office a message, at any time. You can get messages from your health care team and see your medical data. You can access your children's medical records (under the age of 12), too. So sign up today and connect to your good health!
To enroll in MyChart, contact your health care provider’s office. You may also sign up for MyChart in Member Services on the first floor of 10 Gove Street (617-568-4600) or at Medical Records Correspondence, temporarily located in the waiting room of Adult Medicine Practices 4, 5, and 6, on the second floor of 10 Gove Street (617-568-4539). You will need to sign up for MyChart in person. After you have signed up, go to https://mychart.ebnhc.org. At present, MyChart is only available in English.
EBNHC Construction Updates
Our vibrant community is growing. Every day, more people move to the areas of East Boston, Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop. Every month, we increase the number of patients we serve. After 40 years, it's no surprise that we're the largest community health center in New England, and one of the largest nationwide. How does a busy health center keep up? By growing, of course! We're renovating at 10 Gove Street and have embarked on the construction of a new facility in Maverick Square. To watch our progress unfold and stay in touch with important patient information, visit the Hard Hat Area of this website.
