Tubman Glossary

  • Tubman Health’s antidote to the cattle-chute vaccine clinic. An inviting, comfortable space to be in community, ask questions about the COVID vaccine, and get vaccinated if and when you’re ready. Stepping into a Blaxinate Lounge means stepping into a new way of experiencing healthcare.

  • Tubman Health’s research and evaluation arm, led by innovators in community-directed research. CHRI staff run the research studies community wants and disseminates our lessons, sharing the promise and learnings of community-designed care.

  • Tubman Health’s community-designed school-based health center at a Black-led antiracist school. At the Freedom Clinic, you can get acupuncture, make a stress-busting herbal tea, talk learn how to be a community medic, get all your primary healthcare needs met – and much more.

  • A place you can come for primary care, manual therapy, acupuncture, cooking classes, community connection, and much more in a spacious, comfortable setting. At the Healing House, primary care includes western medicine, naturopathic medicine, and our traditional medicines — all attending to your mind, body, and spirit.

  • The warm embrace you receive from Tubman Health every step of the way in your care. The invitation to chat. The offer of a cup of tea or a healthy snack. The respect for all your questions and concerns. The appreciation of you as a person, a loved one, and as community.

  • Individuals and communities whose healthcare needs remain unmet by the mainstream system due to historical and ongoing exclusion in its design, leading to persistent health disparities and differential health outcomes. This includes, but is not limited to, patients who are Black and Brown, and identify as LGBTQIA+, disabled, limited English proficient, and/or immigrant.

  • That’s the name of our unique model of care. Medicine isn’t just what’s in a bottle. It comes in many forms – in good food, in fresh air, in healing herbs, in land, in being in community, in taking action for more equitable policies. This is the medicine our people have always shared with one another. Tubman Health’s care model – Medicine for the People – embraces all our forms of medicine.

  • Members of your care team who accompany you throughout your healthcare journey. Your Tubman Guide goes with you to your appointments to make sure you walk out with your needs met. Your Guide helps you get the grab bar set up in your home, or figure out what’s covered by your insurance. Your Guide provides concierge care for the people.

  • Putting our guiding principles into practice as we imagine, create, and build. Asking how we can support more just systems and arrangements as we scale to 2027. Creating relationships of mutual support, dignity, respect, and love as we build.

  • Building our health and freedom takes all of us – clinicians, researchers, administrators, construction workers, custodians, organizers, community health workers. Working Our Solutions is Tubman’s way of welcoming community members into good jobs and caring for those who care for us.