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Boston’s Community Medical Group (BCMG), a not-for-profit group practice established in 1988, is committed to providing high quality, comprehensive primary care to individuals with disabilities.

As one of the first groups in the nation to provide community-based primary care to adults with severe physical disabilities, our practice is designed to offer a multi-disciplinary team approach to care that emphasizes preventive health care strategies, management of chronic conditions, as well as prompt responsiveness to new problems.

Boston’s Community Medical Group is dedicated to providing care that is individualized to meet your needs and enhance your ability to live independently in the community of your choice. We provide care wherever it is needed whether the home, office, worksite, or hospital 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Our Mission

To provide consumer-directed, comprehensive, high-quality primary care in the most effective and cost efficient manner possible to adults and elders with physical and developmental disabilities by reducing barriers to care and establishing highly personalized partnerships with patients.

News and Press

BCMG Men’s Group Spends Day at Spectacle Island Boston Harbor

On a picture perfect July day, the recently formed BCMG Men’s Group visited Spectacle Island in Boston Harbor. This was the group’s first excursion and it couldn’t have gone better. After a short boat ride from Long Wharf, the group enjoyed lunch before heading out to explore the island. Some of the guys elected to venture off on their own, while the rest of the group headed up the winding path leading to the North Drumlin-the highest point in Boston Harbor.

Many thanks to the volunteers who helped make the day memorable!

BCMG TEAM MAKES SECOND TRIP TO HAITI

As a consequence of last year’s devastating earthquake, Haiti’s very marginal health care infrastructure was overwhelmed with thousands of individuals with new spinal cord injuries. In response, the St. Boniface Foundation partnered with Boston’s Community Medical Group to convert the St. Boniface Hospital in Fond Des Blancs to Haiti’s only spinal cord injury center. In June 2010, a multidisciplinary team from Boston Community Medical Group made their first trip to Haiti to donate their time and expertise to train local providers in the clinical management of spinal cord injury complications.

The most recent contingent to make the trip, Sue Bergman, MD, Nancy Powell, LICSW, Carine Luxama, NP, Lauren Easton, LICSW and Barbara Hantz, Administrative Director returned in June after a weekend long training focusing on behavioral health issues, pain management, sexuality and community re-intergration. Lauren Easton reports that the hospital and the community based clinical teams are developing “an amazing model that incorporates many features of our model here. There are many limitations, but staff there are treating wounds, getting people wheelchair mobility and increasingly discharging individuals with spinal cord injuries to the community with follow up by mobile teams that make home visits on a regular basis”.

Upon their return to Boston, the team received this email. “Greetings BCMG team. It is with the deepest gratitude that we thank you for all the training and support you provided our team. You gave our newly minted staff inspiration, validation and the perfect amount of encouragement. Additionally the stories that were shared about your own challenges and successes will inspire our staff to preserve and continue to search for creative solutions. The St. Boniface SCI Team

If you would like to help support our effort in Haiti, you may make a tax deductible charitable contribution via PayPal’s secure website. Donations by check can be made payable to Boston’s Community Medical Group and mailed to 1 BMC Place, Dowling North, Suite 5108, Boston, MA 02118. If you would like to learn more about the St. Boniface Haiti Foundation, please visit their website at www.haitihealth.org.