As CEO, Brady has brought FHCW, the region’s largest federally qualified health center, back from the financial brink it was tiptoing off of just three years ago. After implementing a 120-day improvement plan in November 2022 that some thought the center wouldn’t even survive, Brady has guided FHCW through back-to-back budget surpluses in 2023 and 2024: ending the fiscal years with a $1.2 million and a $947,001 surplus, respectively.
In 2024, FHCW generated $66.64 million in revenue with $17.22 million in assets.
As healthcare costs continue to rise throughout the state and nation, Brady has bolstered FHCW’s capacities, allowing the health center to provide medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy, and social services to more than 30,000 individuals through 130,000 in-person and virtual appointments.
To best serve the region’s diverse population and to meet patients where they’re at, FHCW has increased the languages it offers to 78 throughout the 14 sites it operates.
Knowing the financial strain not only on patients, but on healthcare workers, Brady implemented a cost-of-living pay adjustment for all the center’s 425 employees.
Mica Kanner-Mascolo is a staff writer at Worcester Business Journal, who primarily covers the healthcare and diversity, equity, and inclusion industries.
