DotWell Partner

Dorchester House Multi-Service Center

Location

1353 Dorchester Avenue

Dorchester, MA, 02122

United States

42° 18' 15.48" N, 71° 3' 36" W

See map: Google Maps

Phone:

617-288-3230

Website:

http://dorchesterhouse.org

Hours of operation (or meeting times & dates):

Monday - Thursday: 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Mission:

To be an essential resource for our community in its efforts to achieve the highest levels of health, well-being and quality of life for its residents. To provide affordable, accessible and exceptional health care and other essential services in an environment that respects our consumers, staff and diverse community. To be a leading force for change in the health, economic and social well-being of our community

Executive Director/CEO/President/Coordinator/Other:

Joel Abrams, CEO

Key Partners:

Codman Square Health Center, DotWell, SCI

Key Programs Offered:

Vietnamese Family Health: The Dorchester House Multi-Service Center launched Viet Family Health in April 2011. The website, "designed as a learning tool to help health care and human services providers better serve Vietnamese families with young children," is split into three sections - Nutrition, Family Well-Being, and History and Culture - and covers Vietnamese beliefs, social structure and food through video, text descriptions, photographs, posters and other means. Viet Family Health is an English language website but contains bilingual resources and links to expanded materials. While educating health professionals on pertinent concerns and appropriate methods for treatment of Vietnamese patients, it additionally provides them the cultural capital to comprehend Vietnamese residents as friends and neighbors.

Community Meeting Space Available:

Yes

Type of facility in which this program/organization located:

Health Center

Also (or Previously) Known As...:

Dot House/Dorchester House

Codman Square Health Center

Location

637 Washington St

Dorchester, MA, 02124

United States

42° 17' 21.7824" N, 71° 4' 16.8564" W

See map: Google Maps

Phone:

(617) 825-9660

Website:

http://www.codman.org

Hours of operation (or meeting times & dates):

Urgent Care:
Monday-Thursday 8:30am - 10:00pm
Friday 8:30am - 9:00pm
Saturday 9:00am - 3:00pm
Sunday 9:00am - 1:00pm

Primary Care:
Monday, Tuesday & Thursday 9:00am - 9:00pm
Wednesday & Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday 9:00am - 1:00pm

Mission:

To serve as a resource for improving the physical, mental and social well-being of the community. *** We opened our doors in 1979 with a dream: to build the best urban community in America. As part of this dream, we recognized that though health care begins by alleviating sickness, the journey to a true "culture of health" is achieved through the health of the whole person, and through the health of the whole community. Our two-physician staff that summer of 1979 may have been small, but our mantra was not: while disease is a lack of health, health is not simply a lack of disease.

Today, with a staff of 280 employees, expert clinicians and medical staff, and an astounding depth and breadth of community programs, we believe that we are on our way toward reaching our dream of building the best urban community in America. The Codman Square Health Center is committed to continued progress and we hope you will join us in fulfilling our vision of a culture of health in our community.

Executive Director/CEO/President/Coordinator/Other:

Sandra Cotterell

Key Partners:

DotWell, Dorchester House Multi-Service Center, Codman Academy Charter Public School, HealthWorks Foundation

Key Programs Offered:

Clinical Services:
Primary care (Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Women’s Health)
Urgent care
Dental care
Eye care
Behavioral Health
Specialty care (Podiatry, Cardiology, Sports Medicine, Nutrition, Dermatology, Smoking Cessation, WIC office) Pharmacy (w/ Eaton Apothecary, 617.265.7400)

Full Service Laboratory
Diagnostic Care (X-ray, mammography, ultrasound, radiology)

Case Management: Asthma, Diabetes, Pre-natal, HIV Client support: insurance services, interpreter services, on-site childcare, financial counseling, legal advocacy, multilingual staff, referral management

Civic Health through DotWell

Public Health Services: Cooking Classes & Nutrition Programs Healthy Eating for Diabetes Eat Green, Save Green HIV counseling, education, outreach, support Support groups for new parents, dads, moms (drop-in!), as well as AA, & HIV

Food Security:
DTA Food Stamp program: There will be a representative at the Health Center on Fridays from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm in the Nutrition Office in the first floor lobby. Half hour appointments can be made in MSI. Walk-ins also encouraged.
Food Pantry: Pantry will reopen at Greenwood UMC. Details forthcoming. MORE!

Last Updated:

02/07/2011