Brookside Community Health Center

based primary care within the Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, and Partners Healthcare Systems.

*Continue to offer successful programs training practitioners in the provision of community-based, culturally appropriate health care, while still maintaining a focus on the delivery of primary care.

*Maintain a leadership role in developing programs designed to improve the health status of Jamaica Plain and the surround communities. Our Values

*Recognize the inter-relationship of clients' medical, social, emotional, and economic needs. Develop holistic service plans and provide coordinated, multi-disciplinary services to meet these needs.

*Commit to excellence. Continuously strive to provide high quality care as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible, while maintaining our overall mission to provide care for all who need it. Demonstrate a continuous ability to respond to changes in local communities and the health care environment.

*Value diversity. Treat all clients and staff with dignity and respect. Strive for integrity in all our interactions.

*Provide on-going training for staff to allow them to develop their skills as fully as possible. Work to ensure growth, development, and job satisfaction for all employees.

*Build on our long history of community involvement, begun in 1970, by aggressively developing outreach, education, and school-based programs designed to improve the health of the community, with particular focus on those segments of the community that are currently under-served.

*Encourage and support the training of students from a variety of disciplines in the family model of care within the health center's primary care delivery system.