Community Medicine
Director: Lucy Chie, M.D., M.P.H.
The Community Medicine consortium leads and develops projects in obstetric and gynecologic care to a culturally and ethnically diverse population of urban and suburban women. Areas of focus include clinical care, research, education, and service-based learning projects. The community health centers are staffed by our core teaching faculty, and serve as ambulatory sites for our resident practice and medical student programs. Each physician works with the staff at the neighborhood health center to ensure the patient's transition in and out of the hospital is seamless. Health care leaders from each center come together quarterly at the BIDMC to plan clinical programs, public health research projects, educational endeavors, and public service. The department is committed to closing the gap in health care disparities.
Neighborhood health centers and their principle communities
Bowdoin Street Community Health Center: Cape Verdian, Hispanic, Asian, African American
Chelsea Health Center: Hispanic, Italian
Dimock Community Health Center: African American, Hispanic
Fenway Community Health Center: Gay and Lesbian
South Cove Community Health Center: Asian
