Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center

Major healthcare providers in Massachusetts and across the country have started taking steps to rectify racial discrepancies in healthcare services and outcomes.

Three community health centers in Central Massachusetts have been selected among 22 centers across the state by MassDevelopment for its Community Health Center Grant Program. 

Steve Kerrigan, president & CEO, talks about Kennedy Community Health Center's expansion into Milford, his cooperative relationship with other nonprofit leaders, and the start of a new trans healthcare practice.

The Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, headquartered in Worcester, sold its former Lincoln Street location to a local dentist for about $1.5 million.

The Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, headquartered in Worcester, announced Wednesday its Milford facility is moving across the street, tripling the center’s current square footage and increasing the resources it provides to town residents.

Worcester’s Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center announced Monday it has been expanding efforts to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to the Central Massachusetts communities through ongoing partnerships.

The Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center announced on Thursday it has moved its administrative offices to be close to the Great Brook Valley public housing complex, where the center was founded.

To better represent its patient population, the board of directors at the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center has made an effort during the past three years to diversify and include a greater variety of perspectives under the leadership of chair Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham.

Worcester's two community health centers, which have carried a heavy burden during the coronavirus pandemic, will receive a total of more than $11 million in federal funding as part of March's American Rescue Plan.

One very real challenge unique to vaccine distribution, both in Massachusetts and the rest of the country, has centered around overcoming skepticism and assuaging concerns about the relative safety of inoculation.