ACADEMIC OVERVIEW

The City of Cambridge and Harvard University affiliated in 1966 to radically improve the poor quality of medical care at Cambridge City Hospital at that time, and to provide additional educational experiences for Harvard medical students. New academic programming attracted excellent medical staff and fostered an increasingly empathetic, curious, socially committed and well-trained medical community. Their innovations in education, care design, and policy relevant research improved the health of our local communities and moreover, contributed to shaping medical care and learning for the nation. It would not be an overstatement to say that CHA would not exist today if it were not for its academic affiliations and pursuits.

Academic Vision Statement:

Academics is fundamental to Cambridge Health Alliance. Our scholarly environment sustains clinical excellence, fosters discovery and nurtures the next generation of clinicians and leaders to serve our communities. CHA’s success in improving the health of our communities and modeling innovations for the nation depends on the robustness of our academics.

CHA’s scholarly environment:

Attracts and sustains excellent clinicians from the multiple health professions by fostering curiousity, continuous learning and professional growth;

Fosters discovery of new knowledge about the treatment and prevention of illness, promotion of population health, design of innovative educational models, implementation of new systems of care and deployment of new health policies;