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Asian Access Program
The Asian Access Program (AAP) serves as an important entry point for non-English speaking or limited English speaking Asian patients trying to navigate or understand the hospital healthcare system. The AAP provides a number of linguistically and culturally appropriate social services, educational programs and training sessions to members of Greater Boston's Asian-American community. More about AAP
Contact: May Wu
617-636-6372, MWu@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Adolescent Family Program
The Adolescent Family Program was established as a clinical service to provide comprehensive, culturally competent health care for teen parents and their children in a “one-stop-shopping” model where teen parents and children can receive care from a single provider. Staffed by a culturally diverse group of practitioners, the program incorporates preventive health and safety education, self-esteem building, and modeling of effective parenting skills for adolescent parents.
Asian American Center for Cancer Education and Research
The AACCER was formed to coordinate hospital wide efforts to address issues of concern to the Asian community regarding cancer prevention and treatment. With support from the Cancer Center and other departments across the hospital, the AACCER has continued to provide access to cancer prevention and treatment information to the Asian community through its newsletter, workshop and community events. Future workshops will be posted on this website.
Contact: Betty Yau
617-636-4363, BYau@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Asian Community Rehabilitation and Support Program
Provides social and support services to Chinese speaking mental health patients. These clients are eligible for Department of Mental Health services. Services also include monitoring clients’ compliance with medications and treatments.
Contact: Nelson Wong, LICSW, MPH
617-636-1755, nwong@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Asian Psychiatry Clinic
The Asian Psychiatry Program provides culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate psychiatric services to Asian patients in the community, offering a range of services to ensure that a continuum of care is available. In addition, the program provides consultation and liaison services to Tufts Medical Center’s Asian patients as well as consultation to other community agencies that serve large Chinese and Vietnamese populations. The majority of patients are Chinese, with most of the remainder Vietnamese. Program staff can accommodate English and Chinese (several dialects) speaking patients. With assistance from the Interpreter Services Department, the Program can serve other ethnic Asian groups. Highlights of program components include: psychiatric consultation, psychopharmacological assessments, psychosocial evaluation, individual psychotherapy, couple counseling, family therapy, group therapy, and school-based counseling.
Contact: George Hsu, MD
617-636-7584, ghsu@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Asian Pediatric and Adolescent Clinical Services Program
The program was established in 1997 in response to the need at Tufts Medical Center to provide pediatric care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate to its Asian patients. The program provides a full range of primary care services, from routine visits and immunizations to acute urgent care and referral assistance. The Clinic works closely with numerous specialty clinics within Tufts Medical Center and provides consultation to several neighborhood based child care providers and organizations.
Contact: Sue Ponte, GNP
617-636-5255, sponte@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Asian Women's Cancer Project
Begun as the Vietnamese breast and cervical cancer program, due to its success, the project has expanded to also include underserved Chinese women over age 40 in the city and surrounding communities. The Project works with community agencies to provide educational workshops, free clinical breast examinations, mammograms and gynecological exams including pap smears, conducted by nurse practitioners with expertise in women’s health and cancer care. A patient navigator accompanies the women, serves as guide and translator and provides transportation if needed. If an abnormality is found, the patient navigator is pivotal in providing assistance to women in obtaining follow-up care.
Contact: Betty Yau
617-636-4363, BYau@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Endocrinology Department
The Endocrinology Department provides comprehensive screening for diabetes targeting Asians living in the Chinatown area of Boston in collaboration with various community partners. In addition, multi-lingual classes and support groups are provided on diet, exercise and medication options and usage.
Contact: Mary Wenners, RN
617-636-5691, mwenners@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Interpreter Services Department
The Interpreter Services Department guarantees access to health care for non-English speaking patients and makes cross-cultural communication and health care delivery as seamless as possible. Department staff provide language capacity for Chinese, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Russian/Ukrainian, Bosnian/Serbo-Croatian, Italian, Haitian-Creole, Portuguese and more. In addition, an extensive pool of freelance interpreters are utilized for languages less often requested or as back-up for the regular and per diem staff.
Contact: Nelson Wong, LICSW, MPH
617-636-6102, nwong@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Kidney and Blood Pressure Center
The Kidney and Blood Pressure Center (KBPC) in the Division of Nephrology partners with several Chinatown community organizations and the National Kidney Foundation to provide blood pressure screenings and educational lectures. Brochures for high blood pressure and chronic kidney disease, as well as the KBPC clinic brochure, are available in Chinese and distributed at the screenings and lectures. Slides used for lectures are also translated into Chinese.
Contact: Klemens B. Meyer, MD
617-636-9421, kmeyer@tufts-nemc.org
Website: www.tufts-kidney.org
Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute Outreach Program
KPTI at the Floating Hospital for Children Department of Surgery treats pediatric trauma patients, conducts trauma research and, through it's Outreach Program, partners with communities in New England and nationwide to promote education and safety for children and their families. The outreach program has six components.
- Bicycle Safety Rodeos
- I’m Safe on My Bike in New England - Classroom Education Program\
- Project B.E.L.T.S (“Because Everyone Loves To be Safe”) - Classroom
- Education Program
- Child Safety Seat Identification Sticker Program
- The Early Childhood Injury Prevention Packet
- Pediatric Trauma Management course for emergency medical personnel
KPTI is funded by an endowment from the Kiwanis Foundation of New England, Tufts Medical Center and public charitable donations. More information about KPTI.
Contact: Victoria Guerina
617-636-6381, vguerina@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Minority Student Outreach
Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts Medical Center maintain a strong commitment to reaching out and attracting minority candidates and supporting them in their attempt to pursue medical and health-related careers. A sampling of such efforts include:
Teachers and High School Students Program – a summer program for high school students with a curriculum designed to promote interest in science, and health care fields. They worked in both labs and clinical research in the Nutrition School, Tufts Medical Center and the Sackler School.
Contact: Mrs. Colleen L. Romain, Director for Student Programs & Minority Affairs, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Box 75, Boston, MA 02111, 617-636-6576.
The “Brainstorm” Program - a science outreach program targeting young minority elementary school children and providing them with basic science lessons, fostering interest in related fields of study.
Contact: Amy Kuhlik, MD
617-636-6534, akuhlik@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Ascher Scholarships - funds are awarded to incoming minority students to help defray the cost of a medical education.
Contact: Amy Kuhlik, MD
617-636-6534, akuhlik@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
OB Services to Community Health Centers
The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology continues a long-standing tradition of efforts to support its surrounding communities through outreach, improved access, and direct service provision. Tufts Medical Center provides strong gynecological service support to several community health centers in the greater Boston area.
Contact: Beverly Nathan, RNC
617-636-1389, bnathan@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Pediatric Residency Training Program
The Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center has 39 residents enrolled in the Pediatric Residency Training Program. As part of the program, residents spend a day seeing outpatients in their Continuity Clinic Rotation. A major focus is to teach residents about specific health care needs of medically underserved communities, encourage them to practice in those communities, and prepare them to provide culturally competent care to their patients.
Contact: Lynne Karlson, MD
617-636-5256, lkarlson@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Quincy School Child Psychiatry Consultation Program
Tufts Medical Center and Quincy School staff work collaboratively to identify, assess, and treat high-risk children with mental health problems that negatively impact their development and functioning at school and within family.
Contact: Joseph Jankowski, MD
617-636-1635, jjankowski@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Reach Out And Read
Reach Out And Read is an early literacy program that models reading for parents and children ages six months to five years who are patients in the General Pediatric Clinic at Tufts Medical Center. There are three parts to the program:
1) The physicians point out developmental milestones in relation to the child using the book at each age during his developmental exam.
2) A new age appropriate book is given to each child during their well child exam.
3) Reading to children is modeled in the waiting room by volunteer readers for parents and children waiting for an appointment.
More about Reach Out and Read
Contact: Ann Carroll, RN
617-636-5255, acarroll@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Skin Cancer Awareness Activities
The Cancer Center provides skin cancer awareness and prevention activities through a variety of venues. The primary focus is on educating and generally informing people about prevention, cause and treatment of various forms of skin cancer as well as pre-cancerous skin conditions. Activities are generally open to hospital staff, surrounding communities and the general public.
More about the Cancer Center
Contact: Tim Cummings, LICSW
617-636-6145, tcummings@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
South Boston Behavioral Health Clinic
The South Boston Behavioral Health Clinic serves the residents of South Boston who are in need of outpatient mental health services. The program provides individual, group, and medication management treatment services as well as Suboxone treatment for outpatient detox for opiate addicts.
Contact: Pam Huberman
617-636-1752, phuberman@tuftmedicalcenter.org
Website: http://www.sbchc.org/index.html
South Boston Public Health Initiative
With Tufts Medical Center funding, the South Boston Health Center Public Health Initiative was designed to improve access to primary care in South Boston through community activities including social services, health education, and referrals for linkages with other resources in the community. This partnership with Tufts Medical Center allows the Health Center to provide outreach, support and case management services to the neediest and most vulnerable residents of South Boston. All of the grant funding is used to provide direct patient care.
More about South Boston Public Health Initiative
Contact: 617-269-7500
Summer Camp Scholarship Program
The summer camp scholarship program provides patients of Tufts Medical Center, Codman Square Health Center and Uphams Corner Health Center who are diagnosed with a chronic medical condition, disability or psychosocial issue with funding to attend a summer camp program of their choice.
Contact: Jasmine Qazilbash, LICSW
617-636-6036, jqazilbash@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Vascular Surgery Department Vascular Disease Program
The Tufts Medical Center Vascular Surgery Department has partnered with the American Vascular Association to participate in a community outreach and education project addressing peripheral vascular disease. Tufts Medical Center is the first Boston location for this national program, which offers free screening for vascular disease incorporating Carotid and Aortic duplex exams, ankle and arm blood pressure checks and EKG. These studies are designed to identify the most common manifestations of vascular disease (carotid artery blockages, aortic aneurysms, blocked arteries of the leg, high blood pressure, and atrial fibrillation) as these health problems may result in limb loss, stroke, heart attacks, and death. Early detection gives the opportunity to prevent many of these adverse outcomes. The program supplies educational materials and forwards test results to the patients' primary doctors. The studies and counseling are performed free of charge one day per year.
Contact: Mark Iafrati, MD
617-636-2262, miafrati@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Volunteer Services
The Volunteer Services Department coordinates Groundhog Job Shadow Day in connection with the Boston School Department through the Boston Private Industry Council. 20 students “shadow” an equal number of staff here at the hospital to become acquainted with the myriad of job possibilities within a hospital setting.
Contact: Melissa Hubbard
617-636-1377, mhubbard@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
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