Martha Eliot Health Center
Celebrating more than 40 years of community care
Since its humble beginnings as a makeshift "well-baby" clinic in a woodworking room serving families of its neighboring low-income housing development, Martha Eliot Health Center (MEHC) has been solely committed to providing compassionate high-quality care to families of Boston. Today, MEHC is a stand-alone comprehensive health center providing pediatric primary care, along with adult, adolescent, OB/GYN, mental health, nutrition, optometry, HIV and early intervention services.
Historical Slideshow
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Learn more about Martha Eliot Health Center's services, staff and rich history of providing quality, compassionate community care.
Compassionate care
"A community health center is a place where I can receive quality health care, medical care, mental care or social services from qualified professionals with dignity and respect regardless of my race, cultural or economic background. A place where consumers play a major role in both the planning and delivery of services." - Mildred Hailey, 1987
These words, uttered 20 years ago by Mildred Hailey, a well-respected Boston community activist and driving force behind the creation of Martha Eliot Health Center continue to capture the goal of Children's Hospital Boston's community health center: to provide compassionate care to a highly diverse population.
Today, these words also serve as a reminder of the important role of community health centers in providing high quality culturally competent care in Boston, which has officially become a "majority minority" city. Read Story
