Mission
Our mission is to promote population health equity for all through leadership and programs supporting community health centers and members in achieving their goals of accessible, quality, comprehensive, and community-responsive health care.
The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers (Mass League) was founded in 1972 as one of the first state Primary Care Associations (PCAs) in the country. Established under the same federal authorizing legislation as the health center program (Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act), PCAs are organized around a set of core functions and competencies that provide a framework for support and assistance to health centers and the communities they serve. As such, the Mass League is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization registered as a public charity with the Commonwealth’s Secretary of State and maintains a professional staff at its headquarters in Boston and at its training center in Worcester.
Our Role
The Mass League provides a wide range of technical assistance to health centers and communities, including:
Workforce Development initiatives to recruit, retain, and develop a well-trained cadre of primary care providers and other staff, and to increase educational and economic opportunities in communities served by health centers.
Analysis of state and federal health, regulatory, and policy issues affecting health centers.
Information Technology Development primarily focused on assisting health centers as they work to upgrade their health information technology systems and capacity for using data.
Management of and support for Clinical Quality initiatives to improve and better integrate patient care.
Training and Education for health center administrators, clinicians, and board members.
Support to Expand Health Access through work with state leaders and local health and advocacy organizations seeking to open health centers in their communities.
The Mass League also serves as an information source on community-based health care to policymakers, opinion leaders, and the media.
The Mass League also oversees:
A federal Health Resources and Services Administration-funded initiative to assist 36 health centers in better leveraging health information technology for improving health access, enhancing quality of care, and achieving cost efficiencies through practice redesign.
A voucher program funded under Section 330 (g) of the Public Health Service Act that enables qualified migrant and seasonal agricultural workers and their families to receive a limited set of health services from a network of participating Massachusetts and Connecticut health care providers based in the Connecticut River Valley.
Affiliate organizations of which the Mass League is a founder and partner include:
Capital Link, a 501(c)(3) organization established in 1994 to assist health centers in Massachusetts and nationally with financing related to facility development and other major capital projects.
CommonWealth Purchasing Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of the League that provides group purchasing, shared services, and strategic sourcing solutions for 300 health centers and related nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts and across the country.
Massachusetts Association for Community Health (MACH), a 501(c)(4) advocacy and social welfare organization supportive of health policy aimed at addressing community health needs.
