By lbecker, 6 December, 2023

Cancer Center

At Tufts Medical Center Cancer Center, patients diagnosed with cancer can access a broad spectrum of specialized services. Our team comprises esteemed medical professionals, including hematologists, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, surgeons, pathologists, nurses, social workers, researchers and other dedicated partners. Together, we work collaboratively to devise a comprehensive treatment strategy tailored to each patient's individual needs.

Commitment to Health Equity

Health equity priorities 

Tufts Medicine is committed to ensuring everyone can achieve and maintain their full health potential. That is how we define health equity. To realize our bold vision of creating the most equitable and frictionless healthcare experience in the world, we are focused on four overarching health equity priorities to eliminate disparities in access to care, quality of care, and health outcomes:  

  • Access to quality and equitable care: Ensure all people, regardless of social factors, can get timely, affordable, high-quality, equitable health services from culturally competent providers.  
  • Physical, mental and social well-being: Play a critical role in supporting behavioral health and health behaviors that contribute to physical, mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of disease, or infirmity.   
  • Health-related social needs: Identify and address community-level barriers to health, influence policy through advocacy efforts, and make investments to ensure equitable access to living conditions that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes.  
  • Address bias in medicine: Represent the communities we serve and build workforce capacity to eliminate biases historically entrenched in medical research, education, and practice.  
At Tufts Medicine, we're all about making sure that everyone can achieve and maintain their full health potential. That's why we're excited to tell you about our new initiative - "We Ask Because We Care." We're going to teach our team members all about the importance of gathering important data and help our patients understand how it can benefit them and their community.
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Our Commitment to Health Equity

Cigna

We are pleased to share that Cigna has agreed to a fair contract for Tufts Medicine. This means that you do not need to make any changes to your health insurance to continue seeing your trusted Tufts Medicine care team. There should be no interruption in your care so please keep any appointments you have scheduled and reach out to schedule any additional services you need. Tufts Medicine physicians and services will be in Cigna’s network. 

If you have any questions, please reach out to your physician’s office.
Cigna agrees to keep Tufts Medicine in its network so you can continue to see your valued care team.
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Cigna members can still receive care with Tufts Medicine

Continuing Medical Education

As technology improves and the needs of our patients evolve, it's more important than ever for medical professionals to stay informed. From virtual Grand Rounds to lectures from the brightest minds in medicine, we make CME easy and engaging for practitioners of all specialties. 

Each of our CME programs satisfies the requirements set by the Accreditation Council of Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).

Explore our CME programs
Tufts Medicine is full of lifelong learners with a passion for discovery. Our continuing medical education (CME) programs give them the support they need to stay up-to-date with the latest innovations in their fields, meet licensure requirements and provide the best possible care to our patients.
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CardioVascular Center

At Tufts Medical Center’s CardioVascular Center, we focus on excellence and collaboration, always keeping the patient at the center of all we do. Individuals from around the country seek out our teams to provide expert services. We are the region’s largest heart failure and cardiac transplant program, giving new life to more transplant patients than any other New England program in the last 10 years. We are experts in specialized procedures to address complex valvular and structural heart disorders, cardiac arrhythmias and atherosclerotic disease throughout the heart and body.

Continuing Medical Education

The CME Program at Lowell General Hospital was awarded ACCME Accreditation with Commendation for demonstrating excellence in compliance in all Accreditation Criteria and accreditation policies. Lowell General Hospital's accreditation term ends on March 28, 2029. Lowell General Hospital received approval from the American Board of Medical Specialties (“ABMS”) to award Maintenance of Certificate (MOC) credits for all CME programs and events. This is in addition to the AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s).

Tufts Medical Center PFAC

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At Tufts Medical Center, we partner with patients and their families to improve health care. That’s what our Patient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC) is all about. It’s a place where patients and families can speak up about their health care issues and questions.
Our latest annual report
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Patient + Family Advisory Council