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...Alliance also planned to consolidate its clinics by closing six of them, including the North Cambridge Health Center and the Riverside Health Center. Last December, CHA eliminated the Oliver Farnum Senior Health Center, transferring all senior center services to other branches...
...elsewhere. Decker criticized councilors for being “more anxious about making hospital administrators nervous about losing dollars than about the services that we do know today we’re losing.” She questioned the CHA’s closure of the Oliver Farnum Senior Health Center in December—which she said forces the elderly and handicapped to travel further for health services—and its reduction of midwifery services, which she said “saves hospitals far more money than OBGYNs,” who are licensed physicians and charge more...
Christmas Eve will mean a lump of coal for senior citizens who use the Oliver Farnum Senior Health Center. The Central Square-based health facility, operated by the Cambridge Health Alliance, will close that day. In public meetings, the CHA has cited ongoing budget problems and the inefficiency of operating the center as reasons for shutting the center’s doors. While patients and other residents have said they are upset that the center will be closing, some said that it will not negatively affect their health care. “I have the best of care here...
Cambridge residents expressed disbelief and dismay at the planned closing of the Oliver Farnum Senior Health Care Center during a community meeting held last night to discuss the Cambridge Health Alliance’s strategic plan...
Others recalled that 30 years ago, the community had lobbied to persuade the City Council and the Cambridge Hospital to bring neighborhood clinics like the Farnum Center to the city...