John P. Cradock
President and Chief Executive Officer
John (Jack) Cradock has spent more than four decades serving the Boston community by bringing high-quality, affordable health care to many thousands of local residents without regard to insurance status, income, language, culture, or social circumstances. His career has centered on the planning, organizing, and delivery of health care through community health centers, developing innovative care models to address the issues facing vulnerable populations and improve patient outcomes.
Jack graduated from Boston College School of Management in 1967. In 1970, he was hired by the Boston Model City Administration and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital to establish the Brookside Community Health Center. From 1976 to 1978, Jack was Executive Director of the South Cove Community Health Center in Boston’s Chinatown. In 1978, he joined the staff of the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC), first as Administrative Director and then as Chief Executive Officer.
EBNHC is one of the largest and most comprehensive health centers in the nation. The health center provides over 350,000 visits to more than 50,000 individuals. EBNHC delivers 1,000 babies annually and its Pediatrics Department cares for almost every child living in East Boston.
EBNHC has developed a number of innovative research, service, and training programs that have led to the health center’s recognition as a leader in community-based services: The East Boston Elder Service Plan, a community-based, comprehensive health care program for frail elders that is part of the national Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE); Let’s Get Movin’, a program for at-risk children centered on exercise, nutritional education, and medical monitoring; The collaborative Education and Training Institute, providing present and future employees with skill training and career paths. Jack’s senior leadership has been instrumental to the development and success of these initiatives.
Jack has served as Chair of the National Association of Community Health Centers, serves on the board of the Boston Public Health Commission, was Treasurer of the Mass League of Community Health Centers, and has served on a number of community boards including the East Boston Ecumenical Community Council, the Urban Edge Housing Corporation, the Christian Home of Reconciliation, and the Boston Mayor’s Health Care Commission.
A lifelong Boston resident, Jack currently resides in East Boston with his wife Susie. They are the proud parents of 18 children, 15 of whom are adopted. When he finds time for recreation, Jack enjoys photography and humanitarian travel.
James O. Taylor, MD
President and Chief Medical Officer
James (Jim) Taylor, MD, has been a leader in community-based health care for four decades. He is a clinical internist, an administrator, and a chronic disease epidemiologist.
Working with a community board of directors, he helped launch EBNHC in the 1970s after identifying the need to provide medical services to the neighborhood of East Boston where there was a great shortage of primary care doctors. Together they set out to make available easily accessible, affordable, and comprehensive health care in the community. During the past two decades, under his leadership as medical director, the health center has grown to provide more than 300,000 patient visits, per year—more than any other ambulatory care center in New England.
Dr. Taylor has directed major National Institutes of Health–sponsored, community-based epidemiological studies of common chronic diseases (hypertension, chronic lung disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and the health and social service needs of the elderly) in the entire population.
He supervised the establishment of a variety of programs for frail elderly aimed at maintaining independent function in the community. These include the Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) and care systems that allow for comprehensive and continuous patient management through inpatient and outpatient interventions.
Dr. Taylor received his bachelor of arts degree at Occidental College. He earned his MD at the University of California at Los Angeles and trained in internal medicine on the Harvard Medical Service of the Boston City Hospital. He holds faculty appointments at Boston University School of Medicine, Boston University School of Public Health, Northeastern University College of Nursing, and Harvard Medical School.
