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Breaking News:
MGH Wins Prestigious Community Health Award
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In honor of its broad-based efforts to partner with underserved local communities to improve health, Mass General Hospital today was named the winner of the 2015 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service. These efforts are most recently exemplified in MGH's comprehensive initiative to address the opioid crisis. The Prize, one of the most esteemed community service honors in health care, is sponsored by the Baxter International Foundation, the American Hospital Association (AHA) and Health Research & Educational Trust.
look for an announcement about our upcoming celebration in May!
20 years building highly-engaged partnerships
John O'Brien, chair of the Foster G. McGaw Prize Committee said: "Massachusetts General Hospital is dedicated to addressing social and economic determinants of health, reducing barriers to care for vulnerable populations, and promoting health equity. MGH collaborates with key partners and stakeholders from multiple sectors to bring their collective resources to bear in multiple programs that address community health."
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Commitment to the community is in the hospital's DNA
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In 2007, MGH affirmed its community commitment by adding a strong statement to the hospital's mission, and by creating a board committee on community health and a policy that holds every clinical chief accountable for community engagement. The hospital recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the MGH Center for Community Health Improvement (CCHI), founded to collaborate with underserved communities to address social and economic determinants of health, reduce barriers to care for vulnerable populations and promote health equity.
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Substance use disorder is the
leading clinical priority of hospital's strategic plan--informed by 2013 community health needs assessment
In a 2013 Community Health Needs Assessment conducted by Mass General, the communities of Chelsea, Revere and Charlestown identified substance use, and particularly opioids, as their most pressing health concern. As a result, MGH developed a comprehensive new clinical initiative to transform care for patients with substance use disorders (SUDS). This initiative, building on long-standing community-based prevention work, became the leading clinical priority of the entire hospital's strategic plan, the first time in MGH's history that the community directly influenced the hospital's clinical agenda.
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MGH President Peter Slavin comments on the 2015 Foster G. McGaw Prize
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"Massachusetts General Hospital is deeply honored to receive the 2015 Foster G. McGaw Prize in recognition of our work to partner with local communities to address social determinants of health and to fully integrate community health into the hospital's patient care, teaching and research missions. As an academic medical center, we are proud to receive this esteemed prize on behalf of the nearly 26,000 employees of MGH."
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MGH was recognized for many innovative community service initiatives
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Community coalitions
Revere CARES, Healthy Chelsea and Revere on the Move (ROTM)
- These citywide, multi-sector coalitions are dedicated to partnering with communities to reduce substance use by changing policies and systems and to change residents' food and physical environments so that healthy choices about eating and active living are easier to make. Revere CARES has been successful in significantly reducing all key indicators of teen substance use in Revere as measured by the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. ROTM worked with the City of Revere to create a bicycle network, partnered with Walk Boston to build a 1.8-mile walking trail and provided mini-grants for the development of a community-wide garden, while Healthy Chelsea and Chelsea's Board of Health led the successful passage in 2013 of a ban on artificial trans fat in food service establishments, the only regulation in the country at that time which totally banned trans fat.
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STEM Education: Developing the Assets of Youth
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MGH provides opportunities in health and science to almost 1,000 Boston, Chelsea and Revere public school students in grades 3 through college to promote educational attainment and to expand career horizons. These activities range from weekly STEM clubs for younger children, to MGH science fair mentors for middle school students, to jobs at the hospital, and to scholarships and mentorships that support college graduation. For example, each year, about 120 Boston Public high school students receive hands-on exposure to
STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) careers through paid internships and job shadowing at MGH. These experiences spark college aspirations among students, introduce students to health and science professionals and help them learn about the education needed to pursue a STEM career. Students and their families also visit nearby colleges, and students attend a summer STEM camp. MGH's four-year college rate is 87.5%, compared to 66% for similar Boston Public School graduates in 2007.
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Improving Access for Vulnerable Populations
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A robust team of community health workers, navigators, home visitors, food security workers and more reduce barriers for patients at our MGH Chelsea health center. Last year this team assisted 3,525 patients in 23,888 encounters on everything from navigating the health care system, to housing, employment, school enrollment, food resources and more. For 15 years, an initiative at MGH Chelsea has aided refugees from countries such as Bosnia, Somalia, Iraq and Bhutan, many of whom have experienced trauma, violence and war. Last year, staff completed 107 Refugee Health Assessments, and 95 percent of all new refugees were connected to primary care within 30 days. The program also supports the urgent needs of newly-arrived immigrants, serving nearly 1,000 refugees and immigrants in 2014.
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| For further information please go to our website www.massgeneral.org/cchi |
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