About Us

About Community Health Center

 

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Community Health Center is a one-stop destination for almost all of your healthcare needs.  We are a complete medical home that offers primary care, behavioral health care, dental care, gynecology, optometry, substance use disorder services, on-site affordable prescriptions, x-ray and ultrasound services, barrier assessments and assistance, Veterans care, and many other specialized programs.

Our focus is on providing the very best health care, as well as providing programs and education that help improve the overall health status of everyone living in our region. CHC is a non-profit organization that cares for all patients, regardless of ability to pay or insurance status. If you don’t have insurance, our experts will help you enroll so you can have access to most convenient and affordable way to stay healthy.

Services at Community Health Center are provided on a sliding scale, if needed, based on income and family size. To learn more information about the sliding scale fees, please click here. Community Health Center receives HHS funding and has Federal Public Health Service (PHS) deemed status with respect to certain health or health-related claims, including medical malpractice claims, for itself and its covered individuals. This Health Center is a Health Center Program grantee under 42 U.S.C. 254b, and a deemed Public Health Service employee under 42 U.S.C. 233(g)-(n). Services at Community Health Center are provided on a sliding scale, if needed, based on income and family size.

Click here to learn about CHC’s sliding scale

Community Health Center offers comprehensive, high quality, compassionate health care to all, regardless of ability to pay. It is our mission to welcome and serve all members of our community, including those who may feel silenced or isolated. We do not discriminate with regard to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, genetic information, marital status, military service or health diagnosis. Our staff pledges to serve, support and protect all people as well as provide a space for open dialogue.

Community Health Center provides an on-demand, mobile video connection to medically trained language interpreters, including American Sign Language. We use iPads on stands with wheels which allow us to bring the interpreter to non-English-speaking patients wherever they are within CHC.

For more information about any of our locations, services or offerings, please call (508) 477-7090.

Recognized for Quality

Community Health Center is a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), which is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality.

As a Patient-Centered Medical Home, the CHC combines mission, teamwork and technology to provide you quality care and improve your health.

By being recognized as a PCMH, you benefit from:

  • Access to a consistent primary care provider and team of health professionals
  • Care that is coordinated and integrated
  • Being actively involved in your care
  • Our focus on quality care, patient satisfaction and safety
  • Access to care when you need it
  • Care that reflects our patients’ culture and beliefs — and our assistance in helping you overcome any obstacles to care
  • Help connecting you to services that are not provided within our medical home

The medical providers at the CHC are physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are healthcare clinicians who work under the direction of a physician. They perform exams, diagnose and treat acute problems, order diagnostic tests, and prescribe medications.

Our providers are all part of the care teams, which also include nurses, medical assistants, counselors, and registration and referral specialists. They work closely with pharmacy and dental staff to fully coordinate patient care.

We accept new patients with all types of insurance — including MassHealth, Commonwealth Care, Medicare, new federal plans and private insurance — or patients with no insurance at all. If you need help finding insurance, we can help by calling us at (508) 477-7090.

Quality Care

A Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

Accessible Care

Providers in three locations and telehealth options.

Affordable Care

No one is denied service.