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Overview
This point datalayer shows the locations of community health centers (CHCs) across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Centers appearing in this layer are those that provide primary, dental, and/or eye care, or administrative work as listed by the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers as of December 2024. Locations were scraped from the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers Find a Community Health Center tool and were geocoded to MassGIS' address points and verified using current ortho imagery and individual websites where needed.
The layer is named CHCS_PT.
Patients seeking care should contact the CHCs directly to verify availability of clinical services, hours, etc., rather than rely on the information contained in this GIS datalayer, as such information is subject to change.
Production
Center locations were scraped using the Python Beautiful Soup module from the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers Find a CHC tool, and were geocoded and matched to points in the MassGIS Master Address Database. This update is an overhaul of the October 2019 release.
Attributes
The layer's point attribute table contains the following fields:
| Field | Description |
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| NAME | Name of the Community Health Center |
| ADDRESS | Address of the center |
| MUNICIPALITY | Municipality of the center |
| GEOG_MUNI | Municipality in which the center is physically located, based on MassGIS' TOWNS_POLY layer |
| ZIP_CODE | Zip Code of the center |
| PHONE | Phone number of the center |
| WEBSITE | Website of the center |
| SERVICES | Services provided by the center as listed on the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers |
| MAD_ID | ID number for the center's address in the MassGIS Master Address Database |
Maintenance
MassGIS will monitor the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers website for any updates.
| Date published: | February 20, 2025 |
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