Martha Eliot Health Center
Welcome to Martha Eliot Health Center
Founded in 1966, Martha Eliot Health Center (MEHC) is Children's Hospital Boston's community health center, embodying more than 40 years of the hospital's commitment to the families of Boston. The health center is named after the late Dr. Martha May Eliot, a well-known social pediatrician who, for more than 50 years, played a leading part in the development of health services for mothers and children.
MEHC is conveniently located at 75 Bickford St. in Jackson Square, Jamaica Plain, and is housed in a state-of-the-art 25,345 square foot building with 21 exam rooms. Each year, more than 120 employees, consisting of physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, therapists, nutritionists, social workers, and patient service representatives serve thousands of patients from throughout Greater Boston.
Through our partnership with Children’s and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, we are able to provide the highest quality care for children, adolescents and adults. We provide compassionate care to everyone from the very youngest to the most senior through a wide-range of programs and services.
At MEHC, our physicians are leaders in bridging the gap between pediatrics and adult medicine. We work closely with families to make the transition from pediatric to adult medicine as comfortable as possible for them.
We partner with numerous community organizations and host several health fairs and events throughout the year to raise awareness about the importance of preventive care. At MEHC, we are proud to serve a diverse patient population.
Thank you for visiting our website and we look forward to serving your healthcare needs.
Conditions & Treatments
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Transitioning the chronically ill patient from pediatric to adult care
More than 9 million children in the United States are living with a chronic illness. Every year, 500,000 of these children turn 18. As they join their fellow adolescents in struggling to achieve optimal independence while navigating the often rocky road to adulthood, these children and their families also face a serious issue they may not be prepared for: the transition of their medical care.
"I wanted to pursue this issue, in particular, because I was struck by how many kids' doctors weren't prepared to handle the transition process," says Frances "Kitty" O'Hare, MD, who is trained in a combined Internal Pediatrics program that treats both adult and pediatric patients at Martha Eliot Health Center.
Learn how Dr. O'Hare and Niraj Sharma, MD, MPH, program director of the Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s are laying the groundwork for a transition medicine practice at MEHC—from training practitioners to starting to map out a transition process by the time their patients are 13, to identifying developmentally appropriate ways of building independence, to affecting policy and making key changes in the clinical care environment. Click here to read the entire article.
Bringing health food to the community
For many Americans, eating healthy food isn’t as easy as just adding more greens to the grocery list. The high cost and limited availability of fresh fruits and vegetables in some areas makes them practically unobtainable to a substantial portion of the population. Here’s a video describing how the Martha Eliot Health Center is trying to change that for some of our patient families.
Children's ranks high
US News & World Report ranks Children's Hospital Boston #1 in more specialties than any other pediatric hospital in the United States. Learn more.
