Curbside Care Program

News and Events

In the News

Since its founding, the BMC Curbside Care Program's great work has been covered in local and national media. See some of the stories that have featured us:

SB Nation Celtics Blog: The Celtics just won a really meaningful award: The Celtics’ Curbside Care program—which delivers essential care to postpartum mothers—has won the NBA’s Social Impact and Inclusion Award
Good Morning America: Boston Celtics Fan Surprised with Tickets to NBA Finals
Boston.com: Celtics, Boston Medical Center are Partnering on a Mobile Healthcare Unit for Newborn Babies
CBS News: Boston Medical Center, Celtics Launch New Mobile Curbside Care Unit for Mothers and Babies
Center for Health Equity, Education, & Research: CHEER Champion of the Week: BMC Curbside Care for Moms and Babies!
BMC HealthCity: Curbside Care for Moms and Babies Changes the Vision of Postnatal Care
Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation and Boston Medical Center Launch Curbside Care Mobile Unit (Press Release)
Boston Celtics Honors BMC at Annual Gala
BMC Joins Boston Celtics at the White House
Curbside Care Mobile Unit Launched
Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation $1.5 Million Gift Launches Curbside Care

Learn More about the Curbside Care Initiative at NBA.com

Events

Our team also participates in many events through Boston in support of our community. Below are some of the recent events in which we took part!

2026 Events

April

Our new van launched March 6th, 2026! It was intentionally designed to be family-centered and inviting. It is more spacious to accomodate more family members and learners, even strollers! It has top-of-the-line equipment and can allow for more OBGYN-specific medical care like exams, pap smears, and more comfortable LARC placement. It has a medical-grade refrigerator for which we plan on using to store vaccines.

March

Program Director Alice Cruikshank, FNP, and Community Wellness Advocate Sameera Jangala attended The Basics Learning Network 2026 Conference in Boston, MA. The Basics Principles are "five science-based parenting and caregiving tenets that support social, emotional, and cognitive development of children from birth to age five" (from the Basics.org website). The conference sparked ideas about how to embed the Basics principles into Curbside Care programming and beyond! For more information about the Basics, see their website.

People in a restaurant laugh, clap, and raise their hands in a celebratory way. (Event photo from the fourth annual Curbside Care Celebration at the Little Cocoa Bean in the Boston Children’s Museum, hosted by the Celtics Shamrock Foundation with Tufts Health Plan.)

A smilling and laughing group of mixed-aged people (mother holding a toddler, children and teens) in a restaurant gathers around a Boston Celtics player for a selfie. (Event photo from the fourth annual Curbside Care Celebration at the Little Cocoa Bean in the Boston Children’s Museum, hosted by the Celtics Shamrock Foundation with Tufts Health Plan.)

January

Fourth Annual Curbside Care Celebration at the Little Cocoa Bean in the Boston Children’s Museum, hosted by the Celtics Shamrock Foundation with Tufts Health Plan