We will soon begin repaving the main driveway outside the Yawkey, Menino, and Moakley buildings. Weather permitting, driveway closures are scheduled for the following weekends, from Friday at 8 p.m. through Sunday at 8 p.m., on the following dates: Sept. 19-21, Sept. 26-28, Oct. 17-19, and Oct. 24-26. 

Access Changes During Construction:

Pedestrian Access: Patients and visitors will be able to enter Moakley through the entrance on East Concord Street.    

Vehicle Access: Vehicular traffic should use the designated drop-off and pick-up area on East Concord Street or the 710 Albany Street Garage. Signage will indicate where metered parking has been blocked off to create a drop-off/pick-up zone (on E. Concord between Harrison and the Moakley side entrance). 

Learn more about our campus redesign. 

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Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family

About Us

“The greatest predictor of a child’s health should not be his or her zip code.”

Statistics about 3 social programs at BMC

Boston Medical Center (BMC) has a long and successful history of caring for the city’s most vulnerable patients. In a city that is the epicenter for training and delivery of world-class innovative health care, BMC is the largest safety net hospital in New England. As such, BMC has long recognized that an individual’s economic status, education level, access to good schools, secure housing, food, and so much more can impact health. That’s why for more than 100 years, whether caring for newborns, children, or adults, the hospital’s clinical teams have focused not only on the medical needs of each patient, but also on the social needs.

BMC Pediatrics in particular is home to some of the world’s most important and widely disseminated care innovations, including Reach Out and Read, Medical-Legal Partnership, and Health Leads. That is why BMC is uniquely positioned to be on the forefront of designing and implementing new models of care that meet the complex health and social needs of urban children and their families.

In 2016, BMC Pediatrics launched the Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family, to revolutionize the model of care for pediatric patients and their families, standing at the epicenter of clinical care, research, and the community.

Our Team

Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family Leadership Team

Practice of the Future Clinical Innovation Team

Barbara Alcena
Financial Coach

Rachael Claborn
Social Worker

Katherine Edson
Practice Transformation Coordinator

Cyndie Hatcher
Provider and Clinical Champion

Elizabeth Jimenez Kog
Community Wellness Advocate

Myrca Joseph
Community Wellness Advocate

Kandice Pina
Practice Coordinator

Sara Stulac
Provider

Rosie Wilder
Practice Coordinator

Research and Evaluation Team

Hedaya Badr
Research Assistant

Miriam Bremer-Kamen
Research Coordinator

Audrey Cantillon
Research Assistant

Naya Habr
Research Assistant

Yasaman Khorsandian
Research Assistant

Joshua Lim
Research Assistant

Leena Sarhan
Research Assistant

Michelle Stransky
Senior Research Scientist

Julia Trifan
Senior Research Assistant

Family Advisory Board

Shay Simmons, Parent Liaison

April Alston

Jennifer Cotard

Maisha Harley

Soraya Harley

Afeisha Henry-Renne

Chatoya Lawson

Evelyn Lilly

Patient Resources

Provider Resources

Pediatric Practice of the Future

“The greatest predictor of a child’s health should not be his or her zip code.”

Pediatric care represents a tremendous opportunity to improve children’s health and well-being—infants come to primary care 6 times in the first year of life alone, and pediatric providers develop longitudinal relationships with families. But to best care for children and families, we must redesign our care delivery to actively partner both other health care providers (like adult medicine, obstetrics-gynecology, and psychiatry), educators and community organizations; develop novel programs; and bring the best of existing evidence into our daily practice.

The Center, in collaboration with BMC Pediatrics Primary Care, is creating a Pediatric Practice of the Future that:

  • Empowers families to define their health priorities and design their own care
  • Provides care to the family
  • Provides new opportunities to promote social and emotional child health
  • Develops deeper community partnerships
  • Leverages technology to provide flexible care options and facilitate communication
  • Rethinks the composition and roles of care team members

Healthy and Ready to Learn by 5

The Center has set a goal that by 2028, all children seen in BMC Pediatrics will be healthy, ready to learn, and have adequate support to thrive by age five. Focus on this age group enables:

  • Emphasis on bi-generational wellness
  • Connection with other child-serving agencies
  • Focus on formational time for life-course health
  • National momentum within Medicaid around early childhood and school readiness
  • Sector with most reach during this time period
  • Investment in early childhood promotes health across the life-course

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