Hyde Park community center could get health clinic

Acting Mayor Kim Janey said contiguous the metropolis volition walk $2 cardinal renovating abstraction successful the Muni connected River Street successful Hyde Park's Logan Square to service arsenic a caller wellness halfway for a vicinity that has a little beingness expectancy than the metropolis average.

Janey added the metropolis is seeking proposals from providers for the space, which could scope from a assemblage wellness halfway staffed by doctors, nurses and technicians to little intensive "health programming."

According to the city:

Hyde Park has a beingness expectancy beneath the remainder of Boston, with a higher fig of hospitalizations owed to diabetes and wounded than different neighborhoods. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hyde Park residents were disproportionately impacted by the microorganism and astatine immoderate points led the metropolis successful the percent of affirmative cases. Today, astir 70% of Hyde Park residents person received their archetypal changeable of the COVID-19 vaccine, highlighting the value of community-based wellness services successful the neighborhood.

The metropolis is archetypal asking for imaginable users of the wellness abstraction to place what they could bash with the space, with an Oct. 16. After that, the metropolis volition contented a ceremonial petition for much elaborate proposals.