Center for Community Health Improvement

Massachusetts General Hospital’s construction of a state-of-the-art building on Cambridge Street will result in the largest Determination of Need community investment in Massachusetts history. Learn about the historic opportunities that this capital expenditure will have for our local communities.

Y-CAB is a youth-led effort to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in our local communities. Made possible through the MGH Community Health Impact Funds process, the Y-CAB aims to expose young people to the workings of the MGH Community Advisory Board (CAB) while elevating the youth voice.

This report adopts the Goals, Objectives & Strategies of the 2022 CHNA (next slide) and further outlines additional strategies targeting racial and ethnic health inequities that disproportionately impact communities of color, with a focus on cardiometabolic disease and Substance Use Disorder (SUD).

In the fall of 2021, we embarked on a city-wide Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) for Boston and a regional collaborative in North Suffolk—Revere, Chelsea and Winthrop. Learn more about the public health data and what community residents had say about their biggest health challenges.

Our special report commemorates CCHI’s founding a quarter century ago. Learn more about our journey from 1995 through the present and our plans for moving forward as we look toward the next 25 years.

To honor the Center for Community Health Improvement’s 25th anniversary, we sat down with colleagues and staff whose experiences embody CCHI’s key strategies: empowering youth and promoting educational attainment, improving access to care and engaging communities to build a culture of health.

Focusing on these social determinants, we seek to eliminate health inequities based on socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity. We leverage prevention, early intervention and treatment approaches that are measurable and have proven impact.