Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center

Whether you visit the health center as a patient or visitor, you will discover a warm, friendly, family atmosphere, combined with quality care and service. Our medical staff includes skilled, board-certified physicians representing a wide range of medical specialties.In addition, you will find that our employees, caring and experienced nurses, medical technicians and support staff, will use their myriad talents to help our patients navigate the often complex health care setting..... read more About UsHarvard Street Neighborhood Health Center, Inc is a comprehensive health delivery organization serving the Boston neighborhoods of Roxbury, Dorchester, and Matapan.Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center, established in 1969 as an offshoot of the Boston Department of Health and Hospitals ( DHH ), became an independent, non-profit corporation in 1976. The largest portion of our funding comes from Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Medicare, Medicaid, the Neighborhood Health Plan, and other insurers.Other funding comes from the City of Boston ; the Massachusetts Department of Public Health ; Women, Infants, and Children ( WIC ) ; Community Health Services and the Boston Public Schools.The underlying principles guiding Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center's mission statement are that people can best improve the quality of health and life by developing goals of self-health, by being producers of health rather than consumers of health care, and by being dedicated participants in health education and preventive medicine.