Boston Medical Center Partnership | Takeda U.S.
Boston Medical Center
Boston Medical Center (BMC) provides world-class, compassionate health care to the people of Boston and beyond. BMC is a national leader in innovative research and practice to reduce health inequities and advance root causes of medical issues like economic mobility, housing, food and transportation. Recognizing the health impacts of environmental factors, BMC is also a national leader in environmental sustainability—from hospital-based rooftop farms to their Clean Power Prescription, a first-in-the-nation pilot that enables BMC providers to write patients a prescription for a reduced utility bill.
Takeda’s longstanding partnership with BMC supports two key innovative initiatives:
Health Equity Accelerator
The BMC Health Equity Accelerator aims to eliminate race-based health equity gaps throughout the U.S. The Accelerator’s initial focus is on five clinical areas—pregnancy, cancer, infectious disease, chronic conditions and behavioral health—in which patient outcomes vary significantly by background, health status and socioeconomic factors. Takeda and BMC have a multi-pronged, multi-year partnership to expand the impact of the Accelerator. Key initiatives include increasing disease screenings, reducing chronic disease complications and embedding successful health equity practices into state and national frameworks.
Health Care Decarbonization
Recognizing the clear connection between community health and planetary health, BMC and Takeda launched a first-of-its-kind research collaboration to catalyze the decarbonization of the health care value chain.
The effort aims to provide insight and interventions that will help those across the global health care ecosystem reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the treatment and disposal of regulated medical waste, like pharmaceutical packaging and single-use plastics, which is one of the most difficult environmental challenges facing the industry. The results are designed to be shared and scaled across the health care ecosystem, starting with this year’s publication of learnings and best practices.
“Without having healthy environments for our patients to live in…we are not able to do our job. So, we just expand our definition of health care.”
Dr. Thea James, Vice President of Mission and Associate Chief Medical Officer, Boston Medical Center