Lemuel
Shattuck Hospital
The Lemuel Shattuck Hospital provides acute, subacute, and ambulatory care to patients referred primarily by public agencies and private health care providers. This fully accredited teaching facility also provides an array of mental health, substance abuse and social services. The hospital’s services enable patients that are economically and socially disadvantaged, and underserved by the mainstream health care system to obtain high quality, cost-effective care from a staff that respects their dignity.
In addition to operating 250 inpatient beds, the Shattuck is unique among state-operated direct care facilities in offering comprehensive medical care, including 26 subspecialty outpatient clinics, all but the most tertiary surgical services, and a full array of radiological imaging and clinical laboratory services. The hospital’s inpatient services play a major role in filling gaps in the health care system for individuals in state care and custody, and from the community, whose co-morbidities and psycho-social issues can be a challenge to conventional health care providers. In particular, the hospital’s collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health and Department of Correction enable the chronically and severely mentally ill, and state and county inmates, to obtain high quality care in a safe and secure setting.
Multiply diagnosed individuals can obtain one-stop shopping from the breadth and depth of Shattuck’s clinical services. This quality of care is enhanced by the hospital’s numerous relationship’s with academic teaching programs, especially the medical residency program co-sponsored with the Tufts University School of Medicine.
Lemuel Shattuck Hospital |
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Hospital Information
| Executive
Director: |
Paul
D. Romary. |
| Location: |
170
Morton Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 |
| Telephone
Number: |
(617)
522-8110 |
| FAX
Number: |
(617)
971-3854 |
| Origination
Date: |
1954 |
| Inpatient
Capacity: |
278 |
| Average
Daily Census: |
250 |
| Accreditation: |
JCAHO
2006 |
Referrals and Admissions
Lemuel Shattuck Hospital receives a wide variety of referrals from throughout greater Boston and Massachusetts.
For information contact the Case Management Office at 617-971-3780 for specific program information and admission procedures. To tour or visit the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital contact the Clinical Marketing Office at 617-971-3658.
Lemuel Shattuck Hospital accepts most major health insurance plans.
Mission Statement
The Lemuel Shattuck Hospital delivers compassionate medical and psychiatric care to patients requiring multi-disciplinary treatment and support which promotes their health, well-being, rehabilitation and recovery.
The Hospital strives continuously to improve the quality of life for our patients through the delivery of collaborative treatment and a patient-focused continuum of care. The support of agencies and programs of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts make this mission possible.
Vision Statement
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To increase access to high quality care for under-served patient populations of Massachusetts, particularly clients and patients in health care programs managed by the Mental Health department, Correctional facilities, and Public Health clinical programs.
- To address the unmet medical and psychiatric needs of patients and clients when the private health care system cannot offer such care.
- To treat all patients and clients fairly and cost-effectively without regard to psychosocial, socio-economic or forensic conditions or status.
- To provide care that responds to each patient’s and client’s individualized needs and promotes their healthy return to the most appropriate setting.
- To provide care in an environment that promotes the safety of patients and clients, respects their rights and wishes and actively promotes their involvement in their care.
- To provide a professional atmosphere in which staff are encouraged to achieve high standards of performance and pursue professional growth.
- To foster community and professional partnerships which promote public health goals and standards and which support the needs of both the public and the private health care systems.
Components
of the Campus
Medical and Surgical Care
- Acute medicine and surgical services
- Intensive Care Unit
- Specialized Medical/Behavioral Units
- Full range diagnostic and testing facilities
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Program
- Telemedicine
HIV Health Care
- Multi-level AIDS treatment services
- Immune Deficiency Ambulatory Care Clinic
- HIV clinics at correctional institutions
- Long term care residential
Ambulatory Services
- Goldfarb Primary Care Associates
- Goldfarb Behavioral Health Clinic
- 24 specialty out–patient clinics
- Ambulatory surgery
- Dental services
- Dialysis services
Tuberculosis Care
- Tuberculosis Treatment Unit
- Tuberculosis ambulatory care clinic
Geriatric Evaluation and Treatment
- Ambulatory and inpatient services
- Diagnostic medical and psychiatric assessment and treatment planning
Services For The Homeless - hopeFound, Inc.
- Shattuck Shelter - 200 beds
- Substance abuse transitional beds
- Kitty Dukakis Women’s Treatment Center
- Primary care program for the homeless
- Transitional Housing For Independent Living
- Community housing programs
- IMPACT Employment Services
Metro Boston Mental Health Units
- Five intermediate care psychiatry units
- Transitional Rehabilitation, Education and Employment
Massachusetts Mental Health Center
- Outpatient psychiatry services
- The Fenwood Inn
- Intensive Day Hospitalization
- Commonwealth Research Center
Correctional Health Care
- Secure 24 bed in-patient unit
- Ambulatory care holding unit
- Specialty clinics at correctional institutions
- Telemedicine
Other Programs
- Victory House - LARC Program
- On-site, non-profit, child day care center
- Methadone Assistance and Treatment Program (RoxComp)
- Needle Exchange Van
Specialty Programs
Dialysis Services
The hospital offers a specialized dialysis unit designed to meet the needs of ESRD patients including those with behaviorally and medically complicated status.
- Patient requiring admission for in-hospital dialysis treatment
- Patients can be referred and accepted for outpatient care
- Home training for peritoneal dialysis is available
- Special need programs available for; HIV, Tuberculosis, Rehabilitation, Detox and Psychiatric patients
Geriatric Evaluation and Treatment
The Geriatric Evaluation and Treatment team focuses on elderly individuals who exhibit change in medical or mental status or a change in the ability to care for themselves.
- 60 years of age or older
- Both secure and open unit offered
- Evaluations and recommendations communicated to primary care physician or other referral source
- Follow-up support to family or other caregiver
HIV/AIDS Program
The HIV/AIDS Program provides a multidisciplinary approach to the medical management of HIV infected patients. The program provides acute and chronic levels of care and continued medical evaluation of underlying disease processes through primary medical management. Indications for admission are primary active HIV process requiring:
- Acute care
- Chronic Care
- Acute/chronic rehabilitation
Psychiatric Services
Comprehensive psychiatric services are provided including inpatient care at both acute and continuing care levels; outpatient care; day programming; rehabilitation and community support services.
- Community base case management and outreach
- Supported education and employment training
Medical Behavioral Unit
The Medical - Behavioral Unit is designed to meet the needs of those patients who have an acute medical-surgical problem or who require extended physical rehabilitation and who have a behavior problem which cannot be managed on an open unit. The behavior problem may or may not be related to the medical-surgical problem. Candidates for admission:
- Patients with psychiatric/behavioral diagnoses who need hospital level of medical-surgical management
- Patients needing diagnostic workup unable to be accomplished in the ambulatory setting
- Patients with acute exacerbation of chronic disease
- Patient who need physical rehabilitation and can tolerate/participate in 3 hours of therapy/day
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Services
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation provides comprehensive rehabilitation services for both inpatients and outpatients. Referrals are accepted from all health professionals, agencies and hospitals.
- Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech and Language Pathology
- Audiology Services
- Therapeutic Recreation
Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program
The Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program is designed to provide a team-oriented approach to rehabilitating patients with pulmonary impairment or ventilator dependency. Appropriate patients are:
- Patients who medically and psychologically display the capability to increase their activity level, without compromising any other medical condition
- Despite a known behavior disorder, patient shows potential for weaning from a ventilator
- Chronic ventilator dependent patients with no capacity for rehabilitation
- Outpatients needing pulmonary rehabilitation including specialized asthma treatment regimen and training
Tuberculosis Treatment Unit
The Tuberculosis Treatment Unit is a specialized unit for the treatment of this disease.
- Complex cases requiring expert intervention
- Non-compliant patients unable to be treated as outpatients
- Treating not only the disease of TB, but the other medical/social factors that make the patient vulnerable to the disease and difficult to treat
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