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Clinical Services (Martha Eliot Health Center):
The History of MEHC
40 years of progress
Martha Eliot Health Center and Children's Hospital Boston celebrate the health center's 40th anniversary, its achievements and the dedication of its staff, whose growth and diversity reflects the community it serves. Since its humble beginnings as a makeshift "well-baby" clinic in a woodworking room serving families of its neighboring low-income housing development, MEHC has become 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 to families in JP, Mission Hill and other Boston neighborhoods.

Historical Slideshow
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Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Learn more about MEHC's services, staff and rich history of providing quality, compassionate community care.

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40th anniversary video
Martha Eliot employees share what makes being a part of this team so special.

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"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

Hailey and Patrick photo
Mildred Hailey with Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick
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