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Boston Partners in Education speaks with Dr. Gary Gottlieb a Big Cheese Reader and CEO of Partners HealthCare, one of our Corporate Sponsors. Our relationship with Partners HealthCare began when they sponsored our Big Cheese Reads initiative. Dr. Gottlieb has been a Big Cheese Reader for the past two years.
This will be your second year as a Big Cheese Reader. What do you find so rewarding that you chose to do it again?
Last year, I was in a bilingual classroom. I was inspired by the passion for knowledge and engagement in children who were driven to become dedicated readers while embracing a new language.
Tell me about your charity work and why you choose to support Boston Partners in Education:
Making sure that children are ready for school and modeling learning for children is critically important to their futures. It’s a joy to share in helping to build a culture of literacy for our young people who are in the early stages of learning to read. We see literacy and early childhood education as the first step in the journey to student success – in high school achievement, college readiness and ultimately as productive members of our society.
The mission of Boston Partners in Education parallels the work of many of the Partners student initiatives. Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital – founding hospitals of Partners HealthCare – as well as health centers across our network are deeply committed to achievement in school. Our hospitals offer programs for children in elementary school as well as our more intensive high school programs with mentoring programs and internships. They also include training for community residents as well as current workers to develop health care career pathways.
Tell us a little bit about Partners HealthCare:
At Partners HealthCare, we believe we have a leadership responsibility to touch the communities we serve, both local and global, with a keen focus on underserved populations. Our mission embraces an investment in education and training to nurture the next generation of leaders who can carry forward the lessons learned, and to promote the development of an innovative, compassionate workforce by creating opportunities for achievement and advancement. Our mission also focuses on leadership in research, bringing discovery to the patient's bedside, and then sharing those successes with the world to benefit future generations.
Partners HealthCare is an integrated health care system; our doctors, nurses and care teams are dedicated to the delivery of superior care that is patient-family centered, safe, effective and equitable. The priority is to provide a coordinated, cost efficient, accessible and transparent care model that will benefit patients across the continuum from prevention to long-term. Founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, the Partners network includes primary care and specialty physicians, community hospitals, the two founding academic medical centers, specialty facilities, community health centers, and other health-related entities.
Learn more about Partners HealthCare on their website at: www.partners.org
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