Our Staff

At Great Brook Valley Health Center and Framingham Community Health Center our combined staff of over 300 people speaks 29 languages and comes from 36 countries. 78% of our staff are bilingual, of which 17% are trilingual. We employ staff whose backgrounds reflect the diversity of our client community. Increasingly, we recruit trilingual staff (primarily fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese). At last count, in addition to English, Spanish, and Portuguese, our staff spoke Albanian, Arabic, Asante-Twi, Bambara, Haitian Creole, Chinese, Davaweno, Fanti, Farsi, French, Ga, German, Hindi, Hmong, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Somali, Swahili, Tagalog, Twi, Urdu, Vietnamese and Visayan. All staff receive ongoing cultural competency training.

All of our physicians are residency trained and board certified. Our Medical Team includes family practice physicians, internists, pediatricians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, optometrists, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, registered nurses, chronic disease nurse case managers, medical assistants, nursing assistants, licensed dieticians, certified diabetes educators, HIV counselors and case managers, family planning counselors, tobacco treatment specialists, childbirth educators, certified lactation counselors and consultants, and patient navigators. We have specialists on site including: obstetricians, gynecologists, podiatrists, cardiologists, urologists, dermatologists, infectious disease specialists, pulmonologists, and ophthalmologists.

Our Dental Team includes dentists, oral surgeons, dental hygienists, dental technicians, dental educators, and dental lab technicians, along with support staff who provide services at four dental sites in Worcester, Clinton, and Framingham.

Our Mental Health and Social Service team includes psychiatrists, psychologists, licensed social workers, psychotherapists, caseworkers and home visitors.

Our staff also includes health educators, youth educators, patient advocates, community health workers, and interpreters for Spanish, Portuguese, Albanian, and Somali. These positions are critical to effective service delivery, outreach to hard to reach underserved communities, providing health education, helping clients navigate the health care system, and advocating for clients.