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LIVING AND WORKING AT CHA
Life in Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA is a thriving metropolitan city home to a culturally
diverse population of over 95,000. Over fifty languages may be heard
on the streets of the city, including Spanish, Haitian Creole, Portuguese,
Chinese, Amharic, and Korean. Children from 82 different countries
of origin attend the public schools. College students from around
the world study at Harvard, Radcliffe, the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, and Lesley College. With nearly 100,000 people located
in a 6.5 square mile area, Cambridge is a unique community with
a strong mix of cultural and social diversity, intellectual vitality,
and technological innovation.
More about CHA
Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is an academic public health system
that is helping people live better lives. Based in Cambridge, Somerville,
and Boston's metro-north region, we provide patient care, education,
and outreach in hospitals, health centers, schools, community centers,
and through some very special programs, right in people's homes.
As one of the ten largest health systems in Massachusetts, and
as a public hospital system, we care for all those in need - from
university professors to the underserved. We do this with medical
services, public health programs, and through the Network Health
plan. With this coordinated system, we are able to meet the needs
of the public, and the health needs of each patient.
Over the past 5 years CHA programs and staff have earned national
awards for culturally competency and clinical care. This recognition
affirms our commitment to our highly diverse patients (see chart
at right) and helps us continue our drive to be the premier academic
public health system in the nation.
| Primary
language spoken by Cambridge Health Alliance patients |
| English
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53%
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Haitian
Creole |
7% |
| Portuguese |
22%
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Other |
7% |
| Spanish |
11%
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| Ethnicity
of Cambridge Health Alliance patients |
| White |
48% |
Other
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15% |
| Hispanic
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17% |
Asian |
2% |
| African-American |
16%
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