On Saturday, January 30^th, Dr. Jennifer Scott from The Dimock Center’s OBGYN clinic will lead a multi-disciplinary team of four physicians and two nurses to the Haitian boarder with the Dominican Republic. Working with the Harvard Humanitarian Institute, Dr. Scott will also deliver vital supplies, including an ultrasound from The Dimock Center, as well as medications and other items being donated by the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Scott expects to be in Haiti for a month, providing immediate medical care and assessing the need for longer-term assistance. 

An experienced global health care provider, Dr. Scott has worked providing women's health care in settings that include Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya.  Her research interest is in preventing gender-based violence, work she has presented throughout the US and in Africa.  Good luck Dr. Scott!

The Dimock family is deeply saddened by the passing of Senator Edward Kennedy.

Senator Kennedy was one of Dimock’s longest and strongest advocates.  His stalwart support for our Health Center and Head Start programs began in 1969 when The New England Hospital became Dimock Community Health Center and has never changed.  The services we provide to our communities, patients and clients reflect the visions and priorities he has consistently supported in his 47 years as our Senator.  Health care, family supports, child and maternal well being are the foundations of the legislation that he skillfully guided through the Senate over those many years.  That legislation and the Senator’s deep caring has -- in many ways -- made us who we are today.   

We will greatly miss him.  Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to his family.  Let us lift them up in our thoughts and prayers. 

Dimock has lost a long and true friend.  

Professor Paul Campbell of the Harvard School of Public Health visited The Dimock Center on June 11th with healthcare providers and policy makers from seven countries (India, Indonesia, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Vietnam and Sudan) to discuss Dimock’s approach to integrated care.

The group met with Dimock President & CEO, Ruth Ellen Fitch, and Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Myechia Minter-Jordan who explained how Dimock delivered integrated services, i.e., comprehensive healthcare, behavioral health service, family support services and youth programs, in a community setting.