Healthworks Community Fitness

Founded in 1977, Healthworks Fitness Centers for Women have been operating women-only facilities for over thirty years. Healthworks provides its members with a supportive, progressive environment to meet their fitness and wellness goals. With locations in the Back Bay, Brookline, Cambridge, Chestnut Hill and Salem, Healthworks currently serves over 16,000 members throughout Massachusetts.

In 1998 the co-owners of Healthworks Fitness Centers for Women established the Healthworks Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the health and empowerment of women and children from all economic backgrounds. To show their commitment, Healthworks Fitness Centers donates a significant portion of its revenue to the Foundation each year, which operates two full-service non-profit fitness centers in Dorchester, MA.

Healthworks at St. Mary's, opened in 2002, is a 3,500 square foot facility serving homeless and low-income women and teenage mothers from St. Mary's Women and Children's Center. Healthworks at Codman, opened in 2009, is a fully-equipped, 9,000-square foot facility. It was established through a partnership between the Healthworks Foundation and the Codman Square Health Center. It includes a 1,800 square foot "Youth Fitness Zone" for children, and will soon offer a teaching kitchen so that members can learn how to cook and eat healthfully. Healthworks at Codman currently accepts medical referrals from the Codman Square Health Center, the Dorchester House Multi-Service Center, and other medical institutions and provides free memberships to patients prescribed exercise to treat chronic diseases including type-2 diabetes, hypertension, mood disorders, and obesity.

In 2011 the Healthworks Foundation changed its name to Healthworks Community Fitness, to properly reflect its mission.

With support, Healthworks Community Fitness aims to operate thriving community fitness centers that provide the highest quality holistic nutrition, fitness, and well-being services while working directly with community-based resources in order to expand the scope of care to patients, resulting in fitter, healthier, happier, and better-educated communities.

For more information, visit us at www.healthworkscommunityfitness.org.