BHCHP Featured in The New York Times Magazine
Checking in for an appointment at BHCHP’s clinic at Boston Medical Center, Charmaire shared that she is experiencing homelessness for the first time. Another BHCHP...
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BHCHP Featured in The Boston Globe
On January 17, Pulitzer Prize winning author Tracy Kidder’s new book, Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People , will...
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Dr. Jim O’Connell is a Doctor for the Homeless
Dr. Jim O’Connell has been providing medical attention to homeless people around Boston for the last 30 years. Dr. O’Connell was on Boston Public Radio...
Learn More‘Saint Of Boston’ Has Treated City’s Homeless For Three Decades
Dr. James O’Connell has been called by some the “Saint of Boston.” He co-founded the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program in the 1980s,...
Learn MoreHouse Calls to the Homeless: A Doctor Treats Boston’s Most Isolated Patients
As a doctor who provides medical care to Boston’s homeless population, James O’Connell and his colleagues are used to working in unusual locations. “We are...
Learn MoreQuiet, Present, Consistent Care: Lessons on Medicine from Treating the Homeless
The man known as “Boston’s doctor to the homeless” has spent 30 years offering hot coffee, warm blankets and medical care to souls left on...
Learn MoreBoston’s Legendary Doctor for the Homeless Marks 30 Years
As a young man, the doctor made a promise. He would do this kind of work for one year. It was, he believed, all anyone...
Learn MoreStories from the Street
In the summer of 1985, two days after finishing his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. James J. O’Connell entered the Nurses’ Clinic at Pine...
Learn MoreMedford’s Stacy Kirkpatrick Returns to Ride PMC Challenge
You can’t keep a good cyclist down. After being forced to the sidelines last year, Medford resident Stacy Kirkpatrick made a much-anticipated return to the...
Learn MoreHouse Calls to the Homeless
It’s a long way from his practice at Massachusetts General Hospital, where Gonzalez sees more well-heeled patients. The homeless sometimes can’t, sometimes won’t get to...
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