Honors & Awards

Family Practice Group has some outstanding providers who have been acknowledging throughout the community:

Family Practice Group has been designated as NCQA 's Patient-Centered Medical Home. PCMH is an innovative program for improving primary care. The Patient Centered Medical Home is a health care setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients, and their personal physicians, and when appropriate, the patient's family. Care is facilitated by registries, information technology, health information exchange and other means to assure that patients get the indicated care when and where they need and want it in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner.

Family Practice Group receives a Harvard Medical School Grant!

We are pleased to announce that Family Practice Group—The Sagov Center for Family Medicine in conjunction with the Primary Care Center at Mt Auburn Hospital has been selected to receive an Academic Innovation Collaborative Grant sponsored by Harvard Medical School.

The goal of this 2 year initiative is to create a platform for training future primary care physicians by developing innovation in primary care in 4 key areas: team based care, management and prevention of chronic illness, management of patient's with multiple illnesses, and patient empowerment and behavior change.

Through this collaborative we will join forces with 8 Harvard-affiliated practices to develop best practices for improving systems of health care delivery and improving the value and quality of the care we deliver. In addition, this collaborative is designed to engage medical students and residents in health care re-design and will allow us to continue with our longstanding commitment to training future leaders in health care.

Dr. Wayne Altman was recognized by Boston Magazine as one of "Boston's Top Docs" in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.

Dr. Laura Zucker was recognized by Boston Magazine as one of "Boston's Top Docs" in 2013.

Kerri Hawkins was recognized by the American Dietetic Association Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year for 2010 and served as the Massachusetts Dietetic Association President 2012-2013.