South Cove welcomes new BIDMC OB/GYN Chief
BIDMC is hospital affiliate of Chinatown center
Date: 10/26/2009
BIDMC Contact: Jerry Berger
Phone: 617-667-7308
Email: jberger@bidmc.harvard.edu
The South Cove Community Health Center offered a warm welcome to Dr. John Yeh, the newly appointed Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), the hospital affiliate of SCCHC, where more than 300 Asian-American babies are born each year.
In addressing the standing-room crowd at South Cove’s newly renovated Chinatown facility, Yeh described his appreciation for the work of South Cove and his own commitment to patients by quoting a wall plaque that hung in his mother’s kitchen, which said, “You are not poor if you do not have any money; you are poor only if you do not help other people.”
Yeh completed a residency at the Beth Israel Hospital in OB/GYN in the mid 1980s, after graduating from Harvard College and receiving his medical degree from the University of California at San Diego. Most recently, Yeh served as the Chairman of the Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York.
South Cove Community Health Center is the premier Asian community health center of Massachusetts. Founded in 1972, South Cove provides medical and behavioral health services and youth and family programs for approximately 23,000 clients at four locations in the greater Boston area. Its mission is to improve the health and well being of Asian Americans in Massachusetts, with a special focus on the medically underserved by providing high quality, community-based health care and programs which are accessible and linguistically and culturally competent for these populations. South Cove is an affiliate of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Children's Hospital.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a patient care, teaching and research affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and consistently ranks among the top four in National Institutes of Health funding among independent hospitals nationwide. BIDMC is clinically affiliated with the Joslin Diabetes Center and is a research partner of Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. BIDMC is the official hospital of the Boston Red Sox. For more information, visit www.bidmc.org .
