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Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is one of the academic teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School with community hospital based residency training programs in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry. It also offers residency program in Family Medicine that is affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine. Other training programs include a variety of disciplines such as Podiatry, Psychology, Social Work, Dentistry, and Nursing. CHA is a regional healthcare system in Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston, Massachusetts's metro-north communities and one of the Top 100 most integrated health care systems in the nation.

Campus

CHA includes three main hospital campuses, a network of primary care and specialty practices, the Cambridge Public Health Department, and the Network Health plan. The three CHA hospital campuses are Cambridge Hospital, Somerville Hospital and Whidden Memorial Hospital in Everett. Each hospital has a 24-hour emergency department, and a wide variety of medical services.

Associated with the three hospitals are many primary care clinics, serving patients in Cambridge, Somerville, Malden, Chelsea, Revere, Everett and Winthrop. The Alliance also includes a Medicaid HMO (Network Health) to serve Medicaid and Commonwealth Care patients throughout the state of Massachusetts.

History

Cambridge Health Alliance was created in 1996 when the city-owned Cambridge Hospital merged with private, nonprofit Somerville Hospital. In 2001, Hallmark Health sold the Whidden Memorial Hospital to Cambridge Health Alliance. All three hospitals were founded around the turn of the last century, with Somerville Hospital being the oldest. Since 2001, CHA has made major investments in all three hospital campuses include new facilities, medical staff, and technology.

In an unusual blend between public and private sectors, the CEO also serves as commissioner of public health for the city of Cambridge. The Alliance has a contract with the city to provide public health services for the city.

In another unusual arrangement, the Alliance is affiliated with both of the large vertically integrated systems in Boston, Partners and Caregroup, and together the three organizations jointly fund the Institute for Community Health, which conducts research on effective clinical and community health programs using the expertise of researchers from all three systems.

Residency and fellowship training

• Harvard Internal Medicine Residency Program - a premier academic community based training program with emphasis on primary care in underserved population with the flexibility of subspecialty training at other Harvard-affiliated tertiary care teaching hospitals, and in producing healthcare policy and community leaders. The training site of Harvard Medical School Cambridge Integrated Clerkship for Harvard medical students.
• Combined Training in Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine - a new combined four-year training program began in 2010, administered by Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health which allow residents to become board-eligible in both specialties: internal medicine and occupational (preventive) medicine and receive a Masters of Public Health Degree (MPH) at HSPH.
• Family Medicine - affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine. Based in Malden, Massachusettsas one of 14 nation-wide residency curriculum using the new model of residency training called Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice (P4).
• Harvard Psychiatry Residency Program - one of the four Harvard Medical School Adult Psychiatric Residencies, and the department serves as a popular training site for Harvard Medical students. CHA also offers a two-year Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program.

Research

• Division on Addictions
• Division of Social and Community Medicine
• Institute for Community Health

Further reading

• Fennimore, Jillian, "Federal funds help heal ailing Cambridge Health Alliance", Cambridge Chronicle, March 25, 2009

References

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External links

• CHA website

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• Hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts
• Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Somerville, Massachusetts
• Hospitals in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
• Harvard Medical School
• Hospitals established in 1996