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VA Boston Healthcare System (VABHS)
The VA Boston Healthcare System (VABHS) is one of the largest in the Department of Veterans Affairs and is one of the major clinical teaching institutions for Harvard Medical School. It is also the sponsoring clinical institution for HSS. This means that the administrative offices and most resident salaries are supported by the Department of Veterans Affairs. VABHS is an integrated health care network of metro-Boston VA facilities including the Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, and Brockton campuses as well as satellite clinics in downtown Boston, Fall River, Quincy, Worcester, and Lowell. There is shuttle bus service between the major sites.
The Brockton Campus of VABHS provides a wide range of acute and chronic psychiatric and medical training sites on its 188-acre campus. These include acute and long-term inpatient psychiatry beds; mental health outpatient and residential care programs; a medical urgent care program; subspecialty medical clinics; transitional and chronic medical wards; and chronic spinal cord injury inpatient units. The Brockton Campus is a site for acute inpatient, outpatient, and on-call psychiatry training and general and subspecialty medical training for HSS residents. The Brockton Campus houses the VABHS acute and chronic inpatient psychiatry units and also maintains large psychiatry outpatient and residential care programs. There are 112 inpatient general psychiatry beds (including an 8-bed women's unit); a 14-bed inpatient substance detoxification unit, and a 14-bed substance abuse residential rehabilitation unit.
Outpatient mental health services includes an emergency psychiatry/triage service; a large Mental Health Clinic for general psychiatry patients; a psychotherapy and long-term continuity clinic; partial hospitalization program for subacute patients; and a day treatment/community support program for chronically patients who need close psychopharmacological follow-up and case management. There are a number of specialty clinics including substance abuse; an integrated primary care / mental health clinic ("PRIME") for patients who have co-morbid medical and psychiatric and/or adjustment problems; foster home, nursing home, geriatric; PTSD, and clozapine clinics. There is an outpatient, onsite, domiciliary program for homeless veterans in recovery from substance abuse who are seeking vocational rehabilitation (REACH Program). There is also the PATH Program for patients with serious mental illness in transition to a residential placement who reside on-site and benefit from supervision of their behavior and their medication.
The West Roxbury Campus of VABHS is the main site for inpatient admissions for medicine and surgery and their subspecialties, neurology, spinal cord injury and rehabilitation services. It is the main site for psychiatric consultation-liaison training, as well as a variety of PG-IV electives. These training experiences are integrated with residents in the Boston University Psychiatry Residency. There is also a PRIME clinic (psychiatry in primary care) at WR. Some on-call time is spent at the WR emergency room, a busy urban ER.
The Jamaica Plain Campus of VABHS is a large out-patient facility which houses primary care, surgical, neurology, and mental health specialty clinics, and it is the site of day surgery and diagnostic procedures. It is a training site for neurology, specialty outpatient clinics, and electives.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is a nationally recognized 381-bed teaching hospital and one of the major clinical teaching institutions for the Harvard Medical School. It is located in Boston's Longwood Medical Area. BIDMC is a site for neurology training, and electives may be arranged there.
Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Healthcare System, Boston, MA
Brigham and Women's Hospital is a 698-bed medical center with a full range of medical, surgical, and obstetrical/gynecological inpatient services. It is a major clinical teaching institution for Harvard Medical School, and is located in the Longwood Medical Area. Brigham and Women's along with Massachusetts General Hospital are founding members of the Partners' Healthcare System, an integrated care network that provides a full range of cost-effective services. Brigham and Women's network also includes the Faulkner Hospital, a community-based, general medical and surgical hospital. PGY IV residents may choose to take electives at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. The elective may be either part-time for one year or full time for two months. Particularly close academic relations exist between VABHS and Brigham and Women's, including participation in a joint Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship and a jointly sponsored Visiting Professorship beginning in 2008.
Brockton Multi-Service Center (BMSC), Brockton, MA
The Brockton Multi-Service Center (BMSC) is a DMH-funded comprehensive community mental health center serving
These services include children’s services, housing services, case management, pharmacy services, Emergency Services at Brockton and Norton sites are available on a 24 hour basis (both sites including crisis stabilization beds). Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) teams bringing services to wherever the clients are located including on the streets and in homes, psychosocial rehabilitation (supported employment and clubhouse), medication supervision clinic, wellness clinic, in addition to outpatient psychiatric and psychopharmacological services, and individual family and group therapies.
The outpatient department is divided into two adult and one child team, serving about 850 mentally ill individuals annually. Most patients are economically challenged and most are insured through Mass-Health and/or Medicare. The patient population is ethnically diverse including significant representation of Hispanic,
Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge & Somerville, MA
The Cambridge Health Alliance operates Cambridge and Somerville Hospitals. It serves the multi-ethnic (Hispanic, Asian, Southeast Asian, Haitian, African American, Caucasian) patient population of Cambridge and Somerville. Both hospitals are Harvard affiliated and JCAHO accredited. Both are general hospitals. Cambridge Hospital has 163 beds, while Somerville Hospital has 124 beds and is 2 miles from Cambridge Hospital. The 15-bed Child Assessment Unit is located at Cambridge Hospital and the 22-bed Adolescent Assessment Unit is located at Somerville. Cambridge Hospital provides child training while Somerville Hospital provides adolescent training for HSS residents.
Dr. John C. Corrigan Mental Health Center Fall River MA
The Dr. John C. Corrigan Mental Health Center is a Harvard affiliated, JCAHO-accredited, Commonwealth of Massachusetts-supported, mental health center. The center serves a catchment area encompassing a population of approximately 150,000 people and provides care to approximately 1000 adult and child patients who exhibit a full range of psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses. The patients may be indigent, disabled, low or middle income, or insured. The center has a busy, 24/7, Crisis- Emergency Services Unit; a 16-bed locked in-patient unit; an outpatient service; and a Day Treatment rehabilitation unit with a capacity for 20 patients. Additional services provided include case management, continuing care and residential programs as well as overseeing a number of contracted services for day treatment and residential needs. The Corrigan Mental Health Center provides HSS residents with a community psychiatry experience, including both long-term outpatient and crisis training.
McLean Hospital, Belmont & Brockton, MA
The McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA was founded in 1811 as the psychiatric division of the Massachusetts General Hospital and became an integral part of the Partners' Healthcare Organization when it was formed. As part of the expansion, a satellite unit was formed. This unit is known as McLean SouthEast (McLean SE) and is located on the grounds of the VABHS Brockton Campus.
McLean Hospital, Belmont, has 328 psychiatric beds and an extensive network of active clinics and day programs for provision of various levels of care needed by the chronically or acutely ill. The patient population represents a broad range of psychiatric diagnoses and includes men and women of varying ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. There are multiple approaches to treatment.
McLean provides a variety of opportunities for HSS residents both at the main Belmont and the SouthEast campuses. At the Belmont campus, HSS residents may rotate through the Short Stay Unit, the Clinical Evaluations Unit, and the Geriatrics Unit. McLean SouthEast provides a key teaching site for day hospital training, including group and individual psychotherapy modalities.
MetroWest Medical Center, Framingham, MA
The MetroWest Medical Center is a 222-bed general hospital located in Framingham, Massachusetts. The patients represent a cross section of the community which has a large Hispanic population. The full gamut of medical illnesses is seen. There is a broad span of socio-economic levels among the patients. MetroWest supports an independent Internal Medicine Residency, and HSS residents rotate with these residents
Taunton State Hospital, Taunton, MA
Taunton State Hospital is a 170-bed Harvard-affiliated, JCAHO–accredited, Commonwealth of Massachusetts-supported psychiatry hospital in southeastern Massachusetts. There is a 134-acre campus which, in addition to housing the inpatient service and a quarter-way house, is the host facility for many community agencies. The general psychiatry wards usually receive patients from the community mental health centers where HSS residents work, while the forensic unit receives patients from both clinical sites and the legal system. HSS residents rotate on the acute forensic unit, which receives patients who are remanded by the court for evaluation of competency to stand trial or for evaluation of competency for probate issues.