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Martha Eliot Health Center (MEHC) opens as a community-based clinic offering maternal and child health services to residents of the Bromley Heath Housing Development in Jamaica Plain.
Children's Hospital Boston assumes full responsibility for MEHC's operations.
1994 Children's Board of Trustees formalizes its commitment to community benefits by making it one of the four core hospital missions, along with clinical care, research and teaching, and establishing the Office of Community Benefits.
The Community Partnerships Advisory Board is established to advise the hospital on the challenges facing Boston children and families.
The functions of the Office of Community Benefits merge with those of the hospital's Government Relations area to form the Office of Child Advocacy (OCA).
OCA develops the "Healthy Children. Healthy Communities." strategy, which blends the traditional medical model of care with a public health approach to improve and redefine children's health.
Children's Board of Trustees establishes the Board Committee on Community Service to ensure our community benefits goals are met; and community health becomes one of the hospital's eight strategic goals.
Children's is among the first hospitals in the nation to assess community health using the same rigor and benchmarks against which patient care quality is measured through a "quality dashboard."
OCA's community strategy evolves to focus on impacting children's health more broadly, using the successes of health programs to help implement public policy changes to improve children's health locally, statewide and nationally.
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