Upham’s Corner Health Center

Upham’s Corner Health Center is a nonprofit community health center providing high-quality, low-cost, culturally sensitive health and social services to residents of North Dorchester and nearby neighborhoods. Its medical services include family and internal medicine, pediatrics, women’s health, behavioral health, dental care, eye care, urgent care, infectious disease and HIV care, a laboratory and a pharmacy. Every patient is assigned a primary care provider who oversees care by working with a team of clinicians.

Over the years the center added OB/GYN, family planning and optometry, opened one of the state’s first WIC programs, launched a dental facility and began a home health program for homebound seniors in Dorchester. Founding member Ethel Lennox is honored in the name of the Ethel W. Lennox Health Care Facility, which opened in the late 1980s. The organization now operates as Upham’s Community Care and includes an Elder Service Plan (PACE) and a Senior Care Options plan.

What to Know

• A sliding fee discount program is available, and no one is denied care for inability to pay.
• The center accepts MassHealth (Medicaid), Medicare and CHIP.
• Interpreter services, nutrition counseling and community health advocates support patients.
• It runs a Family Nurse Practitioner residency program.
• Patients have access to a MyChart patient portal.