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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.

Haiti Relief Effort

Please click here to learn more about Boston's Community Medical Group's efforts to help in Haiti.

News and Press

Commonwealth Care Alliance Clinical Group Welcomes Network Health Alliance

Commonwealth Care Alliance (CCA) and its affiliate, Prevention and Access to Care and Treatment (PACT), have partnered with Network Health, a Massachusetts health plan that provides high-quality health care coverage to more than 150,000 Massachusetts residents with low and moderate income, to launch a unique, innovative program called Network Health Alliance (NHA). Through Network Health Alliance, Network Health members who have complex health needs will get enhanced care management services, care coordination, and extra clinical support. The first primary care site to enroll members is Cambridge Health Alliance.

Commonwealth Care Alliance Clinical Group has organized a multi-disciplinary clinical team to support members enrolled in Network Health Alliance. Click the tab “Commonwealth Care Alliance Clinical Group-NHA” for more information.

BCMG receives Premier Cares Award

BCMG was one of six organizations nationally recognized as a finalist for the 18th annual Monroe E. Trout Premier Cares Award. The Cares Award, sponsored by the Premier healthcare alliance and its member hospitals, honors exemplary efforts by not-for-profit organizations to improve access to healthcare for the underserved. In January, Ken MacDonald and Mary Glover represented BCMG at Premier’s annual Governance Education Conference in Phoenix, Arizona and were honored to accept the award on behalf of our staff, patients, and community collaborators. Special thanks to those who participated in the video which can be viewed at: www.premierinc.com/about/mission/social-responsibility/cares/videos/10-boston.jsp.

BCMG NP volunteers for Haiti earthquake relief mission

Sherline Chery-Morisset, NP, just returned from a trip to Haiti with Sante Fanm Ak Lafanmi. Sherline, along with seven team members including paramedics, EMT’s, and other nurses, volunteered to assist in the current relief effort. They provided medical care and supplies to patients in Camp Juvenat, in a clinic in Carafour Fueille, and distributed clothing and food to Active Compassion Orphanage and the Orphanage Haiti Mission Par La Fois in Leogane. For more information view their website: www.santefanmaklafanmi.org

BCMG is exploring further medical volunteer opportunities involving organizing a team around the care of people who have sustained spinal cord injuries in the earthquake. There is a tentative plan for a June 2010 trip.

Michelle Piro Travels to Jordan

For most of us, a vacation involves getting as far away from work as possible. For BCMG physical therapist Michelle Piro, combining her expertise in wheelchair seating and her passion for travel is the ideal way to spend time off.

In November, Michelle traveled to Jordan with a team of volunteers from Eleanor’s Project, a non-profit organization providing donated wheelchairs and custom seating to citizens of Jordan and Peru. In these countries, it is commonplace for children with disabilities to be homebound due to the absence of wheelchairs. This deprives them of their independence and opportunity to fully participate in society.

The scarcity of appropriate wheelchairs remains a global issue. The World Health Organization estimates that 20-25 million people worldwide need wheelchairs and do not have them due to a lack of resources. “The majority of children we worked with in Jordan did not have wheelchairs, and those who did were using ill-fitting equipment. The major challenge we faced as therapists was to fabricate custom seating with makeshift parts and limited equipment,” Michelle said. Though Jordan has the potential to alleviate their shortage of wheelchairs, Michelle feels that corruption, a lack of disability awareness, and a shortage of experienced therapists will make this difficult to achieve.

Undeterred, Michelle and the other volunteers were determined to help as many people as they could during their trip. Fitting approximately 100 people for wheelchairs is no small feat. First, a container full of donated wheelchairs and seating components needs to be shipped from the United States to Jordan. Then they must clear customs, get unloaded, and be safely stored in donated space. The timing is critical, as the team of volunteers operates on a tight schedule. “In order for these programs to be successful, the wheelchairs have to arrive on time. As therapists, we just want to do our thing and not worry about the logistics,” Michelle said.

Traveling on a bus full of equipment, the team worked 12-14 hour days for a week at a time. On average, they were able to fit about 10-12 wheelchairs per day. In addition to the fittings, they also trained occupational therapy students on wheelchair evaluations and seating and positioning techniques. Though the schedule was grueling, Michelle has no regrets. “This gives me a chance to do what I love. It’s a calling, and I would do it full-time if I could.”

Michelle’s next trip may be to Haiti in June 2010. BCMG is exploring sending a team there to care for people who have sustained spinal cord injuries during the recent earthquake.