Primary Care for Adults & Children

Primary care is important to staying healthy, screening for disease, helping to manage chronic conditions, recommending specialists when you need them, and overall helps you to lead a healthier life style.

At Charles River Community Health, we learn about your family, your community, and your story, so we can treat you and guide you along your best path to wellness. We speak your language. Interpreting services available. Services are available in-person or by telehealth/virtually based on your needs.

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Primary Care for Adults & Children

Physical Exams
Immunizations
Routine screenings for breast and cervical cancers
Routine screenings for early childhood development
Routine screenings for depression and other mental health needs
Sick visits and urgent care
Well-child checks
Sports physicals and back-to-school physicals
Screening and connection to services for treatment of substance use disorder
Healthy eating counseling to help address weight issues, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other diseases, diabetes education, including reviewing medications, providing education on how to check your blood sugar, and how to take insulin
COVID-19 testing, vaccination, and prescription medication treatment (through our pharmacy)

Labs/Testing Services

Diagnostic testing – for blood sugar, cholesterol, blood counts, strep throat, etc.
Sexual Health Related Services: Testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections including: chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, testing for HIV, initiation of PrEP, information regarding sexually transmitted infections and safe sex practices
Pregnancy testing
Lead testing for children

Family Planning for All Genders

Individual counseling on safe sex and birth control
Options counseling if you are pregnant and not sure what to do
Free condoms
Other birth control dispensed through the pharmacy
Emergency contraception & counseling

OB/GYN Services

Problem visits and minor surgical procedures for gynecology issues
Routine and high-risk pregnancy care during each trimester
Prenatal vitamins (dispensed through the pharmacy)
Case management
Help enroll new babies in health insurance

Mammogram Van

Digital screening mammograms are available at select times throughout the year
Prenatal services are provided by Mount Auburn Hospital on-site at Charles River’s Brighton and Waltham sites.
Routine screenings for breast and cervical cancers

Diabetes Education

Review medications
In partnership with Dana Farber Cancer Institute, we provide education on how to check your blood sugar, and how to take insulin

Cancer Screening & Management

On-site breast and cervical cancer screenings
Education and help preparing for colon cancer screening
Case manager to help schedule any follow-up testing or surgery at a hospital

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617-783-0500

Brighton

781-693-3800

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Allston-Brighton (Main Location)

Joseph M. Smith Building
495 Western Ave., Brighton, MA 02135
(617)-783-0500

Waltham

43 Foundry Ave., Waltham, MA 02453
(781) 693-3800

Charles River Community Health as a federally qualified health center, is a FTCA deemed Section 330 Health Center and a Health Center Program grantee under 42 U.S.C. 254b, and a deemed Public Health Service employee under 42 U.S.C. 233(g)-(n). CRCH’s FTCA Deeming letter.

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